Course Timetable
We run the Internal Consultancy Skills course in-house as a 2-day programme.This is a fast-paced and highly concentrated learning experience and draws on the extensive practical consultancy and change management experience of the course facilitators. The program is highly interactive and includes practical consultancy case studies and simulations, and practical tips, tools and techniques to help you get even better results as in internal (or external) consultant and business partner.
The emphasis is on developing client management skills and the practical application of techniques. About two-thirds of the course is structured around a practical case study "simulation" that follows an internal consultancy process from inception to completion. In the consultancy simulation you will be working in a team of up to 8 participants, and each team will prepare for and run a series of meetings with our facilitator who role-plays a number of "client" managers. This ensures you will have the opportunity to participate directly in dealing with the "client" and developing your consultancy skills and confidence. You will apply a number of consultancy techniques and approaches and receive personal feedback from our facilitator to help you develop and practise the people-skills and relationship-building techniques essential to successful performance as a business partner and internal consultant.
Courses with up to 16 participants
For a course with up to 8 people, participants will work as one team on the main consultancy simulation and skills development sessions. For larger courses (up to a maximum of 16 participants) participants will do their preparation for these sessions in 2 teams.
Each team in turn will have the opportunity to observe, analyse and then run a number of client meetings designed to illustrate the use of consultancy skills and techniques and to allow participants to learn, practise and fine-tune the practical application of a range of techniques and approaches. The course facilitator (our consultant) will be the "client" in these meetings. This ensures each participant has the opportunity to receive personal feedback to help develop their consultancy style and performance. Each of our tutors is a practising management consultant with a large client base and can draw on recent practical experience of handling real-life situations with clients.
Larger courses (up to 24 people)
We use a 2-day timetable for in-house courses. If you have a particularly large group (up to a maximum of 24 people) we can run the course over 3 days using a modified course structure: half the course (say, 12 people) attends the Day 1 timetable on the first day, the other half (the other 12 people) attends the Day 1 timetable on the second day, and the entire course (up to 24 people) then attends the Day 2 timetable on the third day of the course. This way we ensure that even on large in-house courses participants still have the opportunity to practise and receive guidance and feedback on their consultancy techniques in small groups.
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