Resource-ful Consulting: Working with your Presence and Identity in Consulting to Change

ISBN-13: 9781782200413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str.

Karen Izod; Dr Susan Rosina Whittle

Opis

Consultants and practitioners working with change can feel at a loss as to how to help their clients move forward. Organizations get stuck in routine ways even when they have innovations in mind. Consultants get stuck in familiar interventions which no longer prove stimulating or effective. Such challenges to practice can preoccupy and reinforce these stuck positions.

Drawing on the authors' experiences of working with the professional development of consultants and change-agents over many years, this book provides an asset-based approach to consulting, where the resources to work at this stuckness come from the way that the authors think about and use themselves: their Identity and their Presence. The authors propose that developing capacities to recognize and analyze who they bring into their consulting, and how they bring themselves is central to resource-ful practice. Without a skill-ful integration of these resources, the potential for change can be compromised.

In handbook format, the book is structured in seven sections: Potential Space, Identity, Presence, Role Space, Practice, Change, and Future Developments. Focusing on practitioners' preoccupations, the authors offer models, theories, tales and activities to help describe and analyze your Identity and your Presence. They tell stories which question how your Practice supports or compromises change, and suggest playful experimentation as a route to Change, and the development of a more resource-ful approach to your consulting practice.

Spis treści

Introduction , Potential space , Identity , Presence , Role space , Practice , Change: developing resource-ful practice , Future developments , Appendix

O autorze

Karen Izod