The Consulting Process in Action
The Consulting Process in Action

Author: Gordon L. Lippitt

Publisher: Pfeiffer

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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A how-to guide for consultants Here is the accumulation of 35 years of work of two men who havehelped shape the training and development field. Teachers,trainers, consultants, and continual learners themselves, theauthors share their repertoire of concepts, strategies, andtechniques. The function of consultants is part of the role and function of allthose who lead, direct, teach, or interact as friAnds and peerswith others. --Gordon and Ronald Lippitt, authors The authors identify the six phases of almost any consultant-clientworking relationship: * Engaging in initial contact and entry * Formulating a contract and establishing a helpingrelationship * Identifying problems through diagnostic analysis * Setting goals and planning for action * Taking action and cycling feedback * Completing the contract This book emphasizes the role of the consultant?internal orexternal?in an organizational setting. You'll learn to recognizethe most appropriate, effective, and credible route to solvingalmost any consulting conundrum. You'll use every chart, checklist,and reference in this work to improve your own jobperformance. Learn to: * Recognize the phases in consulting * Cope with ethical dilemmas * Assess and evaluate your projects * Consult in internation settings * Facilitate change...and much more! You might call yourself a consultant. You might not. Regardless, you'll find yourself better equippedfor any business interaction when you have this book at yourside. Table of contents: * Consultation: An Expanding Process **Phases in Consulting**Interventions: Making Decisions and Ensuring Quality **ConsultantRoles **Ethical Dilemmas and Value Guidelines **DesigningParticipative Learning **Diagnostic Analysis, Progress Assessment,and Evaluation **Examples of Consultation in Action **Guidelinesfor International Consulting **Skills, Competencies, andProfessional Development **The Consultant as Change Facilitator**Implications for the Future of Consulting

Dialogic Organization Development
Dialogic Organization Development

Author: Gervase R. Bushe

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1626564051

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A Dynamic New Approach to Organizational Change Dialogic Organization Development is a compelling alternative to the classical action research approach to planned change. Organizations are seen as fluid, socially constructed realities that are continuously created through conversations and images. Leaders and consultants can help foster change by encouraging disruptions to taken-for-granted ways of thinking and acting and the use of generative images to stimulate new organizational conversations and narratives. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to Dialogic Organization Development with chapters by a global team of leading scholar-practitioners addressing both theoretical foundations and specific practices.

Performance Consulting
Performance Consulting

Author: Dana Gaines Robinson

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2015-06

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 162656230X

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NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED In America, organizations spend $175 billion in training initiatives and more than $500 billion in human resource solutions every year yet often have little to show for it. One reason is that people “jump to solutions” before they identify the causes of the problem. Performance consultants are effective because they partner with clients to clarify business goals and determine root causes for gaps between desired and current results. Only then are specific solutions agreed upon and implemented. This third edition of the classic book that introduced performance consulting adds a wealth of new material. There are new case examples throughout and four new chapters providing detailed steps for measuring results from performance consulting initiatives on five different levels, including ROI. The book includes a never-before-published Alignment and Measurement Model, allowing you to connect organizational needs and performance consulting initiatives designed to address those needs with the appropriate level of measurement. This remains a profoundly practical book, featuring tools, models, and checklists. It will enable you to make a difference in your organization that is valued, measurable, and sustainable.

Consulting Success
Consulting Success

Author: Michael Zipursky

Publisher: Consulting Success

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781775041115

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How can you take your skills and expertise and package and present it to become a successful consultant? There are proven time-tested principles, strategies, tactics and best-practices the most successful consultants use to start, run and grow their consulting business. Consulting Success teaches you what they are. In this book you'll learn: - How to position yourself as a leading expert and authority in your marketplace - Effective marketing and branding materials that get the attention of your ideal clients - Strategies to increase your fees and earn more with every project - The proposal template that has generated millions of dollars in consulting engagements - How to develop a pipeline of business and attract ideal clients - Productivity secrets for consultants including how to get more done in one week than most people do in a month - And much, much more

The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting
The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting

Author: Linda K. Stroh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1351007831

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Consultants are called upon more and more to help implement needed organizational changes, fill gaps in workforce capabilities, and solve significant business problems. As the demand for consultants increases, it is critical that practitioners differentiate themselves and understand how they can be most successful, for themselves and their clients. The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting details what effective consultants do and provides a step by step process of just how they do it. The Second Edition of The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting is fully updated with real-life cases. End-of-chapter summaries foster both mastery and engagement, as well as providing a quick reference throughout a consultant’s career. In addition, each chapter includes a section "From the experts" written by successful consultants and users of consultants’ services. These experts share ideas and tips about their own consulting experiences that relate to chapter material. The book is written for entry level and seasoned consultants, project managers, staff advisors, and anyone who wants to learn (or be reminded of) the basic principles of effective consulting. The book is well suited as an excellent textbook for college courses on consulting, organizational training, and a lifetime go-to consultant’s resource.

The Seven Cs of Consulting
The Seven Cs of Consulting

Author: Mick Cope

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2012-09-26

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0273748866

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The definition of a consultant is someone who facilitates organisational change and provides expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or implementation. In other words a consultant is someone who helps others to change. However, change isn’t such an easy target to achieve. Research shows that the vast majority of change programmes fail. On a daily basis we hear about projects that are delayed, cancelled, over budget or boycotted by the end user. The problem is that we can never force people to change - remember the backlash against Jamie Oliver’s healthy school meals campaign where parents handed junk food to their children through school fences. The key to successful change is to engage with the end user and help them want to change. The Seven Cs of Consulting offers a consistent and collaborative language that helps both consultant and client deliver value through sustainable change. Based around the author’s highly successful 7Cs model (Client, Clarify, Create, Change, Confirm, Continue, Close) this approach is simple and accessible but firmly grounded in research and real life experience. The 7Cs approach opens up the complexity of sustainable change to the consultant and client and helps them explore- and then avoid - the real issues that cause change to fail within a more professional and trusting relationship. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Visual Consulting
Visual Consulting

Author: David Sibbet

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1119375347

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Visualization—in your own imagination, on the wall, and with media—supports any consultant who is learning to design and facilitate transformational change, leadership development, stakeholder involvement processes, and making sense of complex challenges. This book, from leaders in the field, shows you how. Building on Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting, it explains how to visually contract and scope work, gather data, provide feedback, plan interventions, implement, and support on-going sustainability in organizational and community settings. Unlike Block’s work, Visual Consulting addresses the challenging problems of guiding organizational and social change processes that involve multiple levels and types of stakeholders, with interests in both local and global environments. It demonstrates how visualization and design thinking can be used to get more creative and productive results that are “owned” by everyone. The practices described apply to organizational as well as diverse, cross-boundary consulting projects. In this book, you will. . . Learn powerful visual tools for all key stages of the consulting process, including marketing your services Understand the predictable challenges of change and how to successfully guide organizations and communities through them Learn how to collaborate with clients to get sustainable results Find tools for using visualization comprehensively, for both inner and outer work Successfully guide change in both organizations and communities The fourth installment in the Visual Facilitation series, this book teaches you how to activate the full range of visual tools, methods, and models to support stepping into successful, contemporary consulting relationships.

Management Consulting
Management Consulting

Author: International Labour Office

Publisher: International Labour Organization

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13: 9789221095194

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New topics covered in this edition include: e-business consulting; consulting in knowledge management; total quality management; corporate governance; social role and responsibility of business; company transformation and renewal; and public administration.

Professionalism in Physical Therapy
Professionalism in Physical Therapy

Author: Laura Lee (Dolly) Swisher

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2005-02-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1416003142

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As the role of the physical therapist widens to include more primary care and diagnostic responsibilities, there is a greater need for a single, up-to-date resource that explores professional roles and developments in this changing field. This new book is the definitive reference on this important topic. This concise book provides information on every vital area important to professionalism: documentation, law and ethics, and leadership - all in the context of the five roles of the physical therapist as defined by the APTA's Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, 2nd Edition. Readers will find information on the history of professionalism in physical therapy, the five roles of the physical therapist (Patient/Client Manager, Consultant, Critical Inquirer, Educator, and Administrator), the role of the physical therapist in today's health care system, and professional leadership and development. Case studies, "how to lists" and "tips from the field" encourage critical thinking and provide strategies for various issues. The book also offers tips on preparing a portfolio, determining leadership style, and preparing a professional development plan based on the APTA's five roles. Develops and defines principles and concepts of professionalism to guide physical therapists in times of change Follows the APTA's Guide and includes quotes and information from this document throughout Offers a comprehensive history of physical therapy, with unique information on origins of the profession Offers comprehensive coverage of legal and ethical issues, showing how these issues affect the entire practice of physical therapy Discusses billing and reimbursement practices, with specific information on how to document and bill as an aspect of practice Defines and explains the role of the consultant, both as an autonomous health care provider or as a member of a health care team Features real-life case studies and discussion questions at the end of each chapter to encourage practical application of concepts and test readers' knowledge Provides end-of-chapter "tips" to help readers develop best practices