Consulting skills include Analytical skills, Communications skills, interpersonal skills and documentation skills.
Analytical skills helps you to analyse business processes and business scenarios systematically and the ability to translate them into the SAP framework.
Training Skills include presentation skills, language skills and knowledge of third party training development tools like Resite, DDS, Snagit etc.
Interpersonal skills are a tool to work in a team as SAP is an integrated solution and consultants work closely with each other to implement the system for a client.
Communication skill is probably the most important skill a consultant needs whether it is required in discussing and analysing the business or facing the client after implementation.
It helps in the correct and effective knowledge transfer to the end users of the system.
Support Skills include strong troubleshooting and/or debugging skills coupled with knowledge of tools like SolMan [Soluton Manager] in addition to working under pressure to meet ticket resolution deadlines.
Knowhow of Tele-commuting Technologies is an asset when a consultant needs to work from a remote location via phone, mobile, skype or video conferencing etc. A consultant is supposed to know these state of the art technologies to offer his/her services to the client to get required info from the client, any other team member or perform the required knowledge transfer [KT,as we call it] to the client.
