Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used / Edition 3

Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used / Edition 3

by Peter Block
ISBN-10:
0470620749
ISBN-13:
9780470620748
Pub. Date:
03/15/2011
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0470620749
ISBN-13:
9780470620748
Pub. Date:
03/15/2011
Publisher:
Wiley
Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used / Edition 3

Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used / Edition 3

by Peter Block
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Overview

When the landmark best-seller Flawless Consulting was first published more than three decades ago, it was quickly adopted as the "consultant's bible." With his legendary warmth and passion, Peter Block explained how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. The book continues to speak to people in a support function inside organizations as well as to external consultants.

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Peter Block's groundbreaking book explores the latest thinking on consultation. It includes new insights about how we can organize our consulting around discovering the strengths, positive examples, and gifts of the client organization or community. The book remains a practical and specific guide for anyone who needs to develop a capacity for deeper relatedness and partnership—which means it is for all who wish to make a real difference in the world.

This new edition covers the consulting challenges that have arisen from the way we routinely communicate electronically and live in the virtual world. Block suggests ways to overcome the distancing and isolating effects inherent in electronic connects. The book also includes practical guidance on how to ask better questions, gives suggestions for dealing with difficult clients, and contains expanded guidelines on more engaging forms of implementation.

Flawless Consulting includes two new examples, taken from health care and educational reform efforts, to show how consulting skills can be useful (and often transformative) in a broader context. These illustrative examples point the way for achieving changes for leadership in business, government, religion, human services, and more.

Like the first two editions, Flawless Consulting affirms the notion that authentic behavior and personal relationships are the key to technical and business success. By demonstrating their ability to be truly authentic at each step in the process, consultants can aim toward creating workplaces that are more collaborative and ultimately more successful.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470620748
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 03/15/2011
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author


Peter Block is the president of Peter Block Company and also Designed Learning. Peter is a well-known and respected speaker and consultant, with clients all over the world, including Arthur Anderson, and Ford Motor Corporation. He received his master's degree in industrial administration from Yale University. He lives in Mystic, Connecticut

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Table of Contents

Preface ..... v
Chapter 1: A Consultant by Any Other Name... ..... 1
Chapter 2: Techniques Are Not enough ..... 11
Chapter 3: Flawless Consulting ..... 31
Chapter 4: Contracting Overview ..... 42
Chapter 5: The Contracting Meeting ..... 55
Chapter 6: The Agonies of Contracting ..... 87
Chapter 7: The Internal Consultant ..... 105
Chapter 8: Understanding Resistance ..... 113
Chapter 9: Dealing with Resistance ..... 131
Chapter 10: Diagnosis Concepts ..... 141
Chapter 11: Getting the Data ..... 153
Chapter 12: Preparing for Feedback ..... 167
Chapter 13: Managing the Feedback Meeting ..... 175
Chapter 14: After the Preliminary Events Are Over ..... 191
Appendix: Another Checklist You Can Use ..... 197
Suggestions for Further Reading ..... 211
Acknowledgements ..... 213
About the Author ..... 215
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