From: Susan Adams
SADAMS@bentley.edu
Consulting Skills Workshops for You!
Whether you are just starting or have been consulting for years, the
Management Consulting Division has skill enhancement workshops for you.
Similar sessions cost thousands elsewhere so take advantage of this
opportunity to learn from experienced consultants and trainers. Read the
session descriptions below and reserve your seat now online
(http://uwf.edu/mcd ). Contact Susan Adams (
sadams@bentley.edu ) if you have
any questions.
Creating and Developing a Consulting Practice The session will
focus on the individual consultant or small firm perspective and the
academic moving into adjunct consulting. We will share information and
generate discussions on topics such as: positioning your practice,
marketing, getting work and the foundations and skills necessary for
successful consulting, including various consulting roles, what kind of
practice is best for you, client-consulting relationships, contracting and
ethics. (Facilitators: David Jamieson and Terry Armstrong; Friday at
1:00-4:00pm)
'Master or Slave? On Independence in the Client-Consultant
Relationship' Participants will learn about the nature of dependency in the
consultant-client relationship and how to achieve an appropriate level of
independence. Presenters take a dialectic approach with one describing how
consultants are dependent on their clients while the other argues that
consultants can be independent. Steps that should be taken to maintain an
appropriate level of dependency are drawn from group participation.
(Facilitators: Michael Nippa and Judith Gebhardt; Saturday, 2:15-4:30pm)
Qualimetrics The session provides participants steps for bridging
research and consulting interventions using a qualimetrics approach.
Facilitators will: 1) Present the concepts of the qualimetrics research
method : intervention-research, interactive cognitivity, contradictory
inter-subjectivity, generic contingency, 2) Provide an example of a
qualimetrics research scheme based on intervention-research and 3) Conduct
an exercise demonstrating the link between qualimetrics research hypotheses
and the practice of management consulting interventions. (Facilitators:
Rickie Moore, Henri Savall, Marc Bonnet, Michel Peron, Olivier Voyant,
Francois Ecoto, Nathalie Krief and Florence Noguera,; Saturday at
12:30-2:00pm)
Successful Intervention Planning The aim of the workshop is to help
participants gain more skill and insight into intervention planning.
Diagnosing, sense-making, change strategizing will be addressed as
prerequisites for a successful intervention plan for complex issues. All is
done by working on real cases with brief conceptual summaries.
(Facilitators: Léon de Caluwé and Hans Vermaak; Saturday, 2:15-4:30pm)
Organizational Change Management and Project Management
Introduction. This session will focus on the integration of project
management with change management frameworks, processes, content, and tools.
The workshop is planned to produce the following take-aways for
participants: 1) a deeper realization of assumptions embedded in processes
associated with project management, and an assessment of whether the
assumptions are productive and appropriate, 2) at least one specific new
consulting tool that represents an integration of views from the two
approaches, and 3) a model about how to build an alliance with like-minded
consultants to leverage strengths. (Facilitators: Sandra Martinez, John
Warren, Mike Grabarek & William Malek; Friday at 1:00-4:00pm)
Contact me for more information:
Susan Adams (MC division PDW Chair)
SADAMS@bentley.edu
Bentley College
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452 USA
Tel 781-891-2527