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What is the Institute?
The Institute is an initiative of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, to develop more consultants who are more effective in guiding their clients to successfully solve problems and achieve goals in their organizations.
While there are many books and resources about the business of starting and marketing a consulting business, there are few readily accessible resources for learning how to work with clients to solve problems or achieve goals in a project -- and for helping clients to solve those problems for themselves in the future. Usually, resources that do exist are packaged into expensive training programs (for example, as degrees in Organization Development) offered by educational institutions and training centers.
The Institute aims to make resources about consulting more practical and readily accessible to those who are considering the field of consulting and those who have very limited resources from which to develop their skills.
You Can't Be Trained to Be a Consultant, You Must Be Developed
It's not enough to take a series of training sessions -- consulting is a skill that must be developed. Development comes from getting new information from trainings and other resources, but then actually applying that new information and continually reflecting on your experiences with yourselves, your clients and colleagues. That's why this is the Consultants Development Institute.
The following paragraphs include links to an extensive range of free, online resources that provide information about consulting. To develop that information into skills, we hope that you'll consider taking the appropriate workshop listed below, as well.
To Read About the Roles of Consulting and the Consultant
The following link is to a large number of free, online articles about the role of consulting and consultants, and also how people and organizations hire consultants by using Request for Proposals, Proposals and Contracts.
Consultants -- Getting Consultants, Doing Consulting
To Read the Basics About Consulting to Organizations
The field of Organization Development has provided a vast amount of knowledge, expertise and research over the years about how to consult to organizations, including how to guide and support clients to manage change in their organizations.
Field of Organization Development
To Actually Develop Skills in Consulting, Attend One of These Workshops
The following workshops are for those wanting to learn how to successfully solve problems or achieve goals with clients in consulting projects, or for those wanting to deepen and integrate their learning and experiences in consulting.
The workshops include the option to participate in ongoing peer coaching groups in which members share ongoing coaching, advice and materials to convert new information into new skills -- and that's what development (rather than just training) is all about!
Foundations of Consulting and Organizational Development With For-Profits and Government
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an entire career's worth of information. You make them as practical and easy to apply as I've ever seen. The guide is a gold mine. In my professional opinion, WOW!" -- Marti Kaplan, organizational development consultant |
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on this topic in one comprehensive resource! As I read, I felt like I was sitting through a ... consultant training course." -- Pam Roach, HopeWorks® Consulting, Inc. |
Our Highly Experienced Senior Consultants and Coaches
We work with a cadre of highly experienced senior consultants and coaches, each of whom has extensive experience as a consultant -- many of whom teach courses about guiding change in organizations. Some of these people take part in various aspects of training consultants with us and some take part as co-consultants with us in our projects with clients.
Our Senior Consultants and Coaches
To Customize a Consultant Development Program
All employees should have at least basic skills in consulting
-- skills to effectively identify problems in the workplace,
how to identify the symptoms of those problems from the true
causes, and how to work with people to guide them to solve their
own problems. The most powerful forms of consultant development
are those that are customized to the nature and needs of your
organization. To discuss how a program could be customized for
your organization,
contact
us.
