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Week Two Lecture
Let us begin with an understanding of what a consultant is. As a consultant, you will utilize your expertise, attempt to influence an individual, group, or organization and have no direct power to make changes. Your goals are to be authentic, create relationships, and solve problems. For a consultant, it is important you educate clients so that they utilize your expertise. Sounds simple enough…How does that actually happen? First, the consultant must work within a structured framework.
Block (1981) outlines the following from which to work:
You have the overarching guide to develop a consulting agreement; however, do not stop here. There are additional elements to consider when entering into an agreement with a client or when providing a client with a proposal for services.
Block (1981) further outlines elements of a contract and recommends consultants follow them in order to assure their client they possess the expertise necessary for the project at hand.
References
Block, P. (1981). Flawless consulting: A guide to getting your expertise used (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer.
DISCUSSION 1
Ethical Consulting
A company that needs help with implementing a process you have little familiarity with has contacted you. Although you could most likely learn it, you would not be a subject matter expert in the period in which they need you. You are certain you could learn the process and could use the extra income, as your consulting has been a little slow. What are the implications for deciding not to take the assignment? What are the implications for taking the assignment? What would you do and why?
DISCUSSION 2
Experience with Consultants
Describe your experience with a consultant, either from your place of employment (current or previous), in the community, or as the consultant yourself. Thinking of this week’s lecture and the components of a contract, did he/she follow that process? If not, what was missed? Describe your experience.
If you do not have experience with a consultant, recall a situation from your experience where you would have benefited from having an OD Consultant. What would you have done as a consultant? Why?
ASSIGNMENT
Write a two- to three-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) defining the various components of the roles and styles of Organizational Development Consultants (ODC). Based on your research, compare and contrast the roles and styles of an ODC and explain the role and style that would best fit you as an ODC.
You need to utilize at least two scholarly sources (excluding your text) for this paper and your paper must be formatted according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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