Product Description

This title provides ready-made, high-quality consulting tools that help you help your clients! Consultants need help too! Consulting is a demanding profession and today's busier-than-ever consultant needs intelligent tools and resources to speed up and improve the process of working with clients. Help is now here in "The Consultant's ToolKit", an indispensable collection of 50 sophisticated team and organizational assessment questionnaires, team problem-solving activities, and how-to guides for diagnosing and solving client problems. Whatever the challenges facing you as a consultant - from showing your clients how to manage and lead change, to improving relationships between departments, to goal setting and planning - this book provides dozens of client-tested problem-solving tools and solutions that can be used immediately, saving you hours of time and making your interaction with clients more effective.Created by 50 top professionals in the consulting industry, all the tools in this sourcebook are fully reproducible and can be easily customized to fit your client's needs. Included are creative, ready-to-implement approaches to guiding a client in: finding the right business strategy; making meetings more productive; creating effective teams; involving people in decisions that affect them; coaching employees through change; identifying performance problems; dealing with management resistance; stimulating creative thinking; and, much more!Dr. Mel Silberman is the author of "Active Training" and other organization development and training books. Professor of Adult and Organizational Development at Temple University, he is the editor of the annual "Team and Organization Development Sourcebook", and "The Training and Performance Sourcebook Annual". He has been a consultant to hundreds of corporate, governmental, educational, and human-service organizations, and is a popular presenter at professional conferences.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63319 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 354 pages

From the Back Cover
READY-MADE, HIGH-QUALITY CONSULTING TOOLS THAT HELP YOU HELP YOUR CLIENTS!

Consultants need help too! Consulting is a demanding profession and today’s busier-than-ever consultant needs intelligent tools and resources to speed up and improve the process of working with clients. Help is now here in The Consultant’s ToolKit, an indispensable collection of 50 sophisticated team and organizational assessment questionnaires, team problem-solving activities, and how-to guides for diagnosing and solving client problems. Whatever the challenges facing you as a consultant—from showing your clients how to manage and lead change, to improving relationships between departments, to goal setting and planning—this book provides dozens of client-tested problem-solving tools and solutions that can be used immediately, saving you hours of time and making your interaction with clients more effective.

Created by 50 top professionals in the consulting industry, all the tools in this sourcebook are fully reproducible and can be easily customized to fit your client's needs. Included are creative, ready-to-implement approaches to guiding a client in:

*Finding the right business strategy
*Making meetings more productive
*Creating effective teams
*Involving people in decisions that affect them
*Coaching employees through change
*Identifying performance problems
*Dealing with management resistance
*Stimulating creative thinking…
*And much more!

ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Mel Silberman is the author of Active Training and other organization development and training books. Professor of Adult and Organizational Development at Temple University, he is the editor of the annual Team and Organization Development Sourcebook, and The Training and Performance Sourcebook Annual. He has been a consultant to hundreds of corporate, governmental, educational, and human-service organizations, and is a popular presenter at professional conferences.

About the Author
Dr. Mel Silberman is the author of Active Training and other organization development and training books. Professor of Adult and Organizational Development at Temple University, he is the editor of the annual Team and Organization Development Sourcebook, and The Training and Performance Sourcebook Annual. He has been a consultant to hundreds of corporate, governmental, educational, and human-service organizations, and is a popular presenter at professional conferences.

Customer Reviews

For the more experienced consultant
I like this book even though I'm new to the consultant role. Some of the material requires the reader in my opinion to have had some previous experience and I was dissapointed when the the theory was not followed up by some practical exercises or intervention. However, I like the downloadable activities of which there are many. Better still you can customise them to your own company design. Not a book for the novice but for the competent beginer.

The Consultants Toolkit - Silberman
I will not claim to have read all of this book, or to be an expert in consulting. I am a young consultant and have just started my own training/consultancy company. I found this book to be excellent, and an enormous help to my business.

I borrowed it from a friend who recommended it to me - and after only 2 or 3 short hours of reading a few chapters I have invested in a copy for myself and a further copy for a friend who has just been promoted to a higher level of managment, and was struggling with some of the initial resistance to the change.

I look forward to receiving this and reading the well written theory which will really improve how put my practical ideas across to my clients as it gives the bigger picture and an excellent vocabulary to someone in my situation.

A mixed bag
A real mix this some good stuff and also some not so useful. Being able to download the templates as part of the deal is a real bonus though.