Dear Gauri,
Whatever your MD may accord a status to your consultant. Your organisation structure can never call you reporting to your consultant. Please maintain the relation directly with your MD.
Always remember that your consultant has to work in favour of your MD only. Suggest you to maintain your relations with the Consultant only for consulting on specific area he is concerned for.
Many a places people make the consultant a very indispensable member. Even when communicating to their own bosses, employees would route it through their consultant. As such, the consultant slowly gets an opportunity to creep into all the functions, may be his expertise or not.
I have faced a technical consultant slowly became a consultant for everything, even for HR and Accounts, the functional heads knew that his knowledge was irrelevant however, over a period of time he had gained the confidence of MD or Chairman and especially, the consultant blessed with utmost ego started challenging every employee who was not convinced with his consultations. He had the affinity of the Chairman, he also challenged me that he would terminate me in seconds. However, I won by resigning before he could do any harm to me.
Consultants are a boon or bane is not understood to me. Take care.
Whatever your MD may accord a status to your consultant. Your organisation structure can never call you reporting to your consultant. Please maintain the relation directly with your MD.
Always remember that your consultant has to work in favour of your MD only. Suggest you to maintain your relations with the Consultant only for consulting on specific area he is concerned for.
Many a places people make the consultant a very indispensable member. Even when communicating to their own bosses, employees would route it through their consultant. As such, the consultant slowly gets an opportunity to creep into all the functions, may be his expertise or not.
I have faced a technical consultant slowly became a consultant for everything, even for HR and Accounts, the functional heads knew that his knowledge was irrelevant however, over a period of time he had gained the confidence of MD or Chairman and especially, the consultant blessed with utmost ego started challenging every employee who was not convinced with his consultations. He had the affinity of the Chairman, he also challenged me that he would terminate me in seconds. However, I won by resigning before he could do any harm to me.
Consultants are a boon or bane is not understood to me. Take care.