When I worked as a consultant, I found often I will be given a lot more freedom and trust as a consultant than most of the staff at the company, despite some of them being clearly capable of doing what I've been hired to do. It's incredibly frustrating and demoralising for the staff, who are usually stuck dealing with legacy, messed up, projects. Whereas the reality is, my experience is much better used cleaning up the mess of the legacy project and trusting your staff to lead the new project.