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for nonprofits), seeking meaningful consulting projects that impact current human and societal issues (e.g., healthcare, retirement, organizationaldevelopment), and teaching in the business school. Father’s Day lesson #3 is refining the understanding of one’s values and doing something about it. Dad, Happy Father’s Day.
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My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Conversely, I represent several consultants who are always in demand. Let’s look at some examples. Translation: philanthropy expert.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. We take your feedback very seriously. ————————— For more resources, see the Library topics Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Fundraising for Nonprofits.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Quick Tips for Consulting to Small Organizations By Carter McNamara on October 26, 2011. Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD – Authenticity Consulting, LLC – 800-971-2250. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do?
Are you tired of the endless chase for small-paying consulting gigs? Do you want to stop under-valuing yourself through sub-contracting with other consultants and take your place as a sought-after advisor to the C-Suite? You're a purpose driven consultant , and we want to equip and empower you to do the work that you're here to do.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Consulting books often suggest a sequence of steps or phases that a consulting project goes through. Did your client establish criteria for selecting a consultant, for example, do a Request for Proposal? (If Library Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Foundations of Consulting — Part 6: Good Reasons to Hire Consultants and Poor Reasons to Hire Consultants By Carter McNamara on February 6, 2013. Welcome to this six-part series on the foundations of consulting.
Are you thinking about becoming a consultant but not sure what the consultant's role entails? Are you currently a consultant and tired of shadow boxing negative stereotypes about this role and want to be seen as an essential strategic partner to executives? How I Discovered the True Consultant's Purpose (1:48).
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. As a Consultant, Know When You’re Giving Away Too Much By Carter McNamara on October 15, 2011. New consultants far too often give away far too much. Philosophy – Give Free Consulting to Show Expertise, to Establish Credibility.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Why I’m Cynical about the Consulting Profession By John Dupre on April 14, 2013. Years ago, I remember going out on sales calls with one of the partners in our consulting firm, Marv Weisbord. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Foundations of Consulting — Part 4: Types of Consultants By Carter McNamara on November 15, 2010. Part 1 of this series is What Do Consultants Do?, That post also listed numerous roles that a consultant might play.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do? One of the greatest frustrations of consulting is the desire to change your client’s organization, but not having direct influence to accomplish that change.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Welcome to this 3-part article on managing resistance in consulting projects. Part 3 will describe how to deal with your own resistance as a consultant.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Training Versus Consulting – a Story By John Dupre on February 3, 2013. Recently a student asked me what the primary differences in skills were required between a consultant and a trainer. I trust you to find a good consultant.”.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Foundations of Consulting — Part 2: How Do Consultants Work? Part 1 of this series is What Do Consultants Do? Many consultants use a systematic, or planned, approach. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Foundations of Consulting — Part 5: Internal and External Consultants By Carter McNamara on March 6, 2013. Welcome to this six-part series on the foundations of consulting. What Is an External Consultant?
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Consultant — What’s Your Natural Approach to Gathering and Processing Information? Myers-Briggs is a registered trademark of Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc.), Translate This. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Organizational Character and Leadership Development By Jim Smith on December 16, 2010. Here’s more information about leadership development and ethics. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do?
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. How Much Should the Client Be Involved in Consulting Projects? Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting, asserts that, as a consultant, you should not be contributing more than 50% of the effort in a consulting project.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Links to Build a Consulting Practice By Carter McNamara on January 7, 2011. Our firm gets 4-5 calls/month from people wanting to know how to start or grow a consulting practice. Should You Start a For-Profit or a Nonprofit?
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Challenging Our Own Mental Models Our Growth as Consultants (Part 3 of 3) By Jim Smith on March 19, 2011. Given the uncertainty and complexity in our organizations, dealing with ambiguity is a critical skill for consultants. Read more.].
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Think about consultant organizations – we are humans employing methodologies that experience leads us to believe benefit organizations. Jim Smith has over 40 years of organization development experience in a wide range of organizations.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. We have brought in outside consultants to provide recommendations and prescriptions about the problems that plague us. At the same time, a few reflective scholarly consulting practitioners were experimenting with ways to improve whole systems.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. 7 Options for "Success" in Consulting Projects By Carter McNamara on June 10, 2010. In a highly collaborative approach to consulting, you want your relationship with your client to be as open, honest and trusting as possible.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. They were interested in pursuing OD consulting, whether it be internal or external. Years ago I was interviewing for a job in a large consulting firm in NYC. It paid quite well and I liked the consultants who I had met.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Organization Development is all about change in work systems. For Example, Consider the internal consulting team where we developed, what we called our PWI Index. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do?
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Consultant — What’s Your Natural Approach to Problem Solving? As a consultant, you work with clients to solve problems. Always consider that diversity in your consulting projects. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. How "Disconnected Conversations" Can Kill Consulting and Collaboration By Carter McNamara on June 17, 2010. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about a particular consulting project. Translate This.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Consulting? Coaching vs. Consulting – Or Is It? Similarly, many coaches see consulting as being limited to giving advice. They might add, “So coaching is not consulting. A consultant can use questioning (“coaching”?)
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. I am looking at the dynamics from three perspectives: From Western Consultants who have had experience of and have practised Change & Transformation in Asia. Consulting. Translate This. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Foundations of Consulting — Part 3: Primary Working Goals and Assumptions of Consultants By Carter McNamara on April 19, 2010. Primary Working Goals of Consultants. How Do Consultants Work? Major Types of Consultants.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Working on Ourselves, as Consultants By Jim Smith on June 14, 2010. Why It’s Important to Work On Ourselves, as Consultants. This is why it is so important for consultants to “work on” ourselves. Library Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. ” He went on to explain that their organizations were still somewhat small. ————————— For more resources, see the Library topics Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Challenging Our Own Mental Models and Our Growth as Consultants (Part 2 of 3) By Jim Smith on February 25, 2011. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Translate This. Library Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD – Authenticity Consulting, LLC – 800-971-2250. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do?
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Last week, I got a call from a consultant who lamented the “failure of all those management movements.” Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Library Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. As a Consultant, What’s Your Blindside? Watch the following situation occur in conversations among consultants. Many consultants place extreme value on people’s feelings, beliefs and perceptions. Library Blogs Home.
During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning OrganizationalDevelopment (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. Challenging Our Own Mental Models and Our Growth as Consultants (Part 1 of 3) By Jim Smith on February 16, 2011. There are consulting lessons in this work as well as personal development lessons for people who hope to do consulting.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. A Definition and Implementation of Organizational Change By Jim Smith on May 27, 2010. First of all, my experience is that organizationaldevelopment work is a very fragile enterprise. Translate This. Library Blogs Home.
Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. ————————— For more resources, see the Library topics Consulting and OrganizationalDevelopment. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance?
This post is a continuation of the previous post in this forum, “Challenges in Consulting to Small Organizations” (Part 1 of 3). So when they do hire consultants, it is usually for specific, low-cost technical advice – and that advice had better solve the organization’s problems and fast.
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