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Discussion #1 Block's Fist Strategy.

Block mention in this book that consulting is nothing but a relationship between the client and consultant it deals with the quality of the relationship that the client has with the consultant and the consultant expertise.

The consultant must have a tender, caring love to be able to do their job well no matter what type of challenges they are facing. Some of their strategies used by Block consultant include training, technology or one-one coaching and everything is about relationship and learning that ultimately define their practice. (Block 2011).

Block's Second Strategy.

In this chapter nineteen Heart of the Matter, Block choose learning over teaching this means that consultant is in the business of helping their client learn, just as it done in the classroom that teachers are responsible for students to learn. Due to our culture, there is a belief that individual competition is a way of motivation. He also mentions in his chapter why learning and changing must happen. (Block 2011).

Block's Third strategy.

Block also mention in the Hearth of the matter when it comes to transformation, change and hope they all self-inflicted. To be able to achieve an individual must depend on hope. Changing is good because individual understand that when we rise in a position at the workplace, there is a need to change. When individuals achieve success in running the organization, they look at themselves as a finished product. As consultant employees do not change when management change and learning is a vital individual does not have to guide or induce change. Organization or individual must joint it because both the client and the consultant are a learner (2011).

Explain why you chose these three strategies and not the others.

Block strategies are interpersonal strategies where communication is vital, and it put the client in a learning mold which helps the client and the consultants to work on the problems. Training and employees involvement give the organization exceptional value. When employees are training by their leaders the leader vision is passed to them that means that they can be held accountable through measurements and reward. (Lock2011).

Analyze your ability to incorporate these strategies into a consulting project. Identify the skills you are lacking to use these strategies.

Incorporating these strategies into a consultant project is it not going to be easy, but it can be done if proper training is received and what I learned from this class. I have not done a consultant job before. In this class I have learnt how crucial it is when it comes to client and consultant relationship communication, skill to do the job and how vital it to include your top managers in decision-making process, According to Johnson (2010) if organization did not include their top manager in the decision-making process the organization have a high risk of failure.

Explain what you can do to develop these skills. Describe a plan for how you would develop these skills.

Developing this skill as a consultant means that an expert must train me to reach these goals. That means training is vital to have better communication, how to develop a relationship with the client, how to faced client challenges, how to handle the problematic patient, how to collect data and analyze and implement a plan for the organization and the most important collaboration. All this training will help me to develop skills.

References

Block, P. (2011). Reforming leadership. Leadership Excellence, 28(10), 16-17.

Block, P. Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used.

Johnson,R. (2010).Consultant can be scary.: supply house time.

Discussion #2

1. Describe and analyze the three strategies Block (2011) describes for successful consulting that you think can create the most impact.

One strategy is learning over teaching. There's a different when someone is teaching a particular area and trying to get the individuals to understand what was explained. I feel when something is taught the leader must explain why something is in order for the students to continue on (Block, 2011).

Learning starts from the actual deliver of the information. When someone is training to explain what has been taught it may fall back on the actual teacher. However, when learning something new taking notes are required. Training books that provided job skills and techniques for One example can be a group of new employees are about to hit the floor at their local call center that handles prescription drugs (Block, 2011).

Consultant building trust is one area that must continue to be followed in all organizations. The consultant has to stay committed to improving and helping the client. Honesty is the best policy will be improving an organization (Block, 2011).

Dealing with functions of umpire grader and consultant facilitator at the same time has its pros and cons. Grader may form the grade based on based information. While the other facilitator has a particular scale that is reviewed. More than so the facilitator must continue to have all information correct in order for the organization to continue to run.

2. Explain why you chose these three strategies and not the others.

The purpose of selecting the three strategies chosen is because they are most important to and it deals with some areas in my current organization. Leaders must teach and provide great quality in giving great information to improve.

3. Analyze your ability to incorporate these strategies into a consulting project. Identify the skills you are lacking to use these strategies.

The skills lacking is the unknown or not knowing. What I encourage is for the unknown and knowing to me explained in surveys or monthly meeting for a connected to the organization to know the in and out of the organization. Honesty and defense are areas that still need improvements. I can be honesty and provide the correct information along with doing my job. However, in some areas I may defend something that is not correct, due to saving someone's job (Diamond, 2008).

4. Explain what you can do to develop these skills. Describe a plan for how you would develop these skills.

One on ones will be developed. The one on ones are to understand from employees what issues they are having or issues within the organization. The issues can include technology errors, system issues, and miscommunication. A training every thirty days will go over must haves of the organization. The must haves will include improvements of the organization and refresher of skills (Kykyri, Puutio, & Wahlström, 2010).

References

Block. P (2011). Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, 3rd Diamond, M. A. (2008). Telling them what they know: Organizational change, defensive resistance, and the unthought known. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 44(3), 348.

Available through Sage Journals.

Kykyri, V., Puutio, R., & Wahlström, J. (2010). Inviting participation in organizational change through ownership talk. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 46(1), 92. Available through Sage Journals.