An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Developing and Leveraging Consulting Skills

Applying Best Practice to Improve Team Performance

DAILY AGENDA

DAY 1: Consulting Is Much More Than Giving Advice
  • What do consultants actually do?
  • The characteristics of the consulting profession
  • Internal and external consultants – similarities and differences
  • Universal and specialist skills required for effective consulting
  • The unique and unusual relationship of consultant and client
  • The central role of communication in effective consulting
  • Overview – The changing priorities of professional consultants
DAY 2: Developing Yourself And Your Consulting Teams
  • Defining your consulting role – its scope and boundaries
  • Experience transfer – the essence of effective consulting
  • Continuous improvement – yourself and your people
  • How to structure and develop a consulting team
  • Coaching and mentoring 1 – Managing experienced consultants
  • Coaching and mentoring 2 – Supporting inexperienced consultants
  • Overview – Setting up a high-performance consulting capability
DAY 3: Improving Planning, Organisation and Alignment
  • Planning 1 – How to acquire relevant, accurate and complete data
  • Planning 2 – Converting data into a development plan
  • Organisation 1 – Why and how organisations need to change and develop
  • Organisation 2 – The organisation as a “fighter aircraft”
  • Alignment 1 – Optimising the strategy-structure-culture process
  • Alignment 2 – Applying best practice as the business model evolves
  • Overview – Controlling the processes of strategic and operational management
DAY 4: Managing Evolution, Disruption and Change
  • Evolution 1 – Knowing when and why to change direction
  • Evolution 2 – Deciding how to change direction
  • Disruption 1 – Leading the processes of innovation
  • Disruption 2 – Managing risk within consulting projects
  • Change 1 – Understanding why change management is difficult
  • Change 2 – Overcoming reluctance and resistance to change
  • Overview – Personal plan for leveraging consulting experience and best practice
DAY 5: The Collaborative Consulting Model
  • Client wants and needs – agreeing and achieving realistic expectations
  • Creating and sustaining a client-consultant relationship
  • Cross-testing and development of innovative ideas
  • Communicating the results of consulting activities
  • Evaluation of outputs and consequences – what value is added?
  • Collaboration as the means of maximising sustainable success
  • Overview – The value of consulting in a rapidly changing world

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Are there prerequisites or language requirements?

There are no prerequisites. Our courses are open to students of all backgrounds who are 18 years of age and older. All courses are conducted in English. Video lectures include English subtitles and the option to slow-down, pause, or replay lectures for better retention. Discussion boards are a critical component of each of our courses; therefore, we suggest students have a conversational knowledge of English when pursuing a Certificate of Completion. For any of the art writing courses, students need to be 100% proficient in written English.

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Our classes are kept small, at no more than 30 students, to better facilitate and encourage personalized interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Your classmates come from all over the globe and contribute their global perspectives and experience. Some are currently working within the arts while others are just beginning. All classmates share in their passion for the art world.

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