Some folks approach the conversation in terms of learning. Others come in and say, ‘I want to get promoted to senior consultant. What should I do?’” Geller assumes these consultants are takers. “They focus on telling me what they’re doing, with a thirty-minute agenda of things they want to update me on, because they want to make me aware. They’re not really asking insightful questions; it’s very superficial. We don’t get deep enough for it to be really helpful for them.”
