CORE CONSULTING TECHNIQUES

OVERVIEW

In this highly participative programme, participants willl earn the consulting techniques and skills that are a prerequisite in consulting:

  • Understand your consulting style and how to work effectively together in teams
  • Increaseyour awareness of the business context and commerical drivers
  • Use best practice frameworks to develop your strategic thinking and analysis
  • Understandand practice the fundamentals of good conversation with clients
  • Strengthen critical key communication skills around listening, advocating ideas, inquiry, coaching, storytelling, meeting management and facilitation.
  • Know how to gain the client’s commitment to your ideas and recommendations
  • Identify mental models and bias and understand their impact on decision making
  • To understand the sources of creativity and strengthen your creative thinking
  • Learn about personal and organisational change and how to influence them
  • Recognise the factors to affecting successful change and overcoming resistance
  • Strengthen your coaching skills and know how to support clients through change
  • Strengthen the ability to develop propositions to illustrate and demonstrate your and your organisation’s competencies to your client
  • To be able to surface further opportunities to contribute from current work by deepening empathy and understanding of client needs and stakeholder politics

WHAT THE PROGRAMME WILL ACHIEVE

Participants become more intellectually and socially confident and know how to play to their strengths during an engagement. They will recognise and be able to adapt their consulting style and mental models, see the broader strategic context, analyse and articulate strategically and develop a road map for change. They will strengthen their client development capabilities and gain buy in to their ideas, recommendations and propositions.

Strategy and change analysis and management tools
  • Understanding and mapping the broader business context
  • Analysing and current strategy and potential future state
  • Managing personal and organisational change
Self awareness, thinking and creativity
  • Analysing and owning your personal consulting style
  • Recognising and managing your mental models and bias and your client’s
  • Strengthening creativity and brain storming approaches
  • Developing lasting client relationships
Communication
  • Mastering key influencing phases of executive conversations
  • Developing inquiry strategies and questioning techniques
  • Advocating a point of view and gaining buy in to recommendations
  • Using coaching to empower colleagues and clients
  • Managing and facilitating meetings
  • Using storytelling to engage and influence
  • Developing and articulating compelling propositions

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