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Consulting Today publishes practical articles by and for consultants,
coaches, facilitators and their clients. Sharing our best ideas, models
and tools is the way we serve our clients and the field in which we
work. The energy and creativity of our authors brings outstanding value
to these reports. A brief description of each report appears
below. (Additional issues are always being developed.) |
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Coaching Topics: |
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The
Foundations of Coaching -
These five authors explore the beginnings and rise of this
discipline. Anyone who coaches should read these articles, and may
want to share some of them with clients as well.
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Coaching Tools -
What are some specific skills the best coaches use well? What are the
steps in coaching emotional intelligence? They’re all here.
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Life
Planning -
Useful in one-on-one coaching sessions, or group workshops, these ideas
will help others reach their full potential and life goals.
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Consulting Topics: |
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Adapting Appreciative Inquiry -
Based on work done by David Cooperrider and
others at Case Western Reserve University, AI is being
adapted for many uses. Authors outline a spectrum of the adaptations
here.
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Consulting Skills - Discovery and Diagnosis
Collection articles describe
consulting discovery and diagnosis from the perspective of seven
experienced consultants who rely on these methods for their
professional success.
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Consulting
Skills - Managing Projects and Clients
This issue offers articles that provide help
with important issues in implementing consulting projects — project
management, organizational change, and dealing with a variety of real
world
clients.
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Working
With Teams -
In this issue we bring you six articles on all aspects of teams, from
the processes teams use to solve problems, to ground rules for task
teams, to the critical success factors for virtual teams.
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Leadership: |
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New Leaders —
The First 100 Days
This
issue offers five important articles for the new leader, focusing on the
priorities and skills needed in the first few months of tenure in a new
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Models for Leadership in a New Century -
The second of two new issues focusing on new century leadership, featuring
articles by Ken Blanchard, Mark Miller, Steve Davis et.al., practitioners
widely recognized and successful thought leaders.
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Developing
Leaders in a New Century
We open with an article
describing a complete program that combines a number of new and classic
methods.
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Leading Organizational Change -
These articles help partners in
the change management process develop a
consistent philosophy and style. Share them with clients to help clients
understand their part in the change process.
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Managing in a
New World -
Share these insights with any leader who is
working to improve the way they, and their organization, manage the people
of the new millennium.
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Marketing: |
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Consulting Skills - Marketing for
Professionals
This issue offers seven articles
describing the methods and philosophies that today’s consultants, both
internal and external, use to market themselves and their services.
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Strategic Marketing For
Professionals
These articles offer ideas that help you design the strategy for your
business. Use these articles to lay a foundation for your marketing effort,
and to
provide an infusion of ideas and energy.
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Marketing on a Budget
The authors
offer clever and creative twists on traditional strategies like
networking, press releases, and mailing. These are ideas you can use at
any stage in building your business.
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Non-Profit Consulting: |
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Consulting
With Non-profits -
There’s information on how non-profits operate, their values, processes
and priorities, what clients want, and how some non-profits deal with
problems.
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Strategic
Consulting With Non-profits -
This issue provides a variety of
perspectives on doing strategic work with nonprofit organizations
including ideas from an
international panel of Future Search consultants working with non-profits.
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Organizational Change: |
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Leading Organizational Change -
These articles help partners in the change management process develop a
consistent philosophy and style. Share them with clients to help clients
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Tools
for Organization Change
This collection offers a variety of tools used
by organizational change consultants. These tools include Weisbord’s Six Boxes, Bridges' Transition Model, a
process-change model, and a communication plan.
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Principles of Whole-System Change -
Whole-system change has
transformed the way organizational change is done.
These articles explain the underlying principles of these methods.
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Organizational Project Management -
This issue focuses on resources for project
managers — helping them plan for success in all their projects. You’ll find these compact two-page articles
useful for project management and training.
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