Consulting Conversations 14: Begin with the end in mind...
This is my series finale! Not so much a climatic cliff edge closing, but rather an exhortation not to enter into any change situation or campaign with...
Consulting Conversations: 1. The 7Cs of Consulting
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Welcome to my Consulting Conversations series. The goal throughout is to help you lead more effective conversations, whether you are a consulting professional like myself, or any one who can benefit from consulting skills, whatever your role. Hopefully you will find some value here.
Consulting Conversations 13: Feedforward!
We often spend so much of our time 'doing' that we have no energy or appetite left for having conversations about how we are 'being', or how we could ...
Consulting Conversations 12: Enrolment, Proposals, Requests
When we are helping to lead and bring about change, we rule by consent not by command. We need the support of key influencers, early adopters, our col...
Consulting Conversations 11: Sustaining Conditions for Success
How as a change expert or consultant can you create and influence the conditions for project success? In this episode I share some critical insights f...
Consulting Conversations 10: Think Big. Start Small!
As change leaders and project managers we only tend to see as risks the problems that we have seen before and solved in the past. In my earlier days a...
Consulting Conversations 9: Collaborative Intelligence
'Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.' - Michael Jordan. Following from conversations for possibility we need to be abl...
Consulting Conversations 8: Systemic Design
Consider the assertion that 'every system is perfectly designed...to get the results it gets'. As consultants, our work is helping to change results t...
Consulting Conversations 7: Creating New Possibilities
"If you want to have a good idea, have a lot of them" (Mark Twain) In this podcast I share ideas on how an expert advisor, facilitator or coach can ad...
Consulting Conversations: 6 Communicating Business Value
A good idea goes nowhere if it is not communicated well. In this episode I share the communications principles and patterns that allow you to tell a c...
Consulting Conversations: 5 The Outcome Distinction
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will get you there...If only you walk long enough" Unlike Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, as expert co...