The NLP Guide to Being a Management Consultant
$37.50
ISBN:1899836551
"Consult Yourself has everything you need to get started and polish your skills as a management consultant. … It is obvious Harris is an expert who knows her subject. This book should be a basic text book on the desk of every management consultant." Judith E. Pearson, PhD.
A supremely efficient and useable guide to becoming a consultant, Consult Yourself provides personal aptitude and attitude tests, allowing you to initially assess the benefits and risks of a career in consulting, and contains invaluable advice on obtaining a position as a consultant, becoming self-employed, or, indeed, employing a consultant yourself. Most importantly Consult Yourself presents essential NLP-based techniques that will revolutionise your approach to planning, analysis, problem solving, IT, networking, marketing; and the best NLP-derived tools that will enable you to: manage your time; present information; interview; coach; collaborate; evaluate and be confident.
Pioneering a thoroughly-structured process of how to become a consultant, Consult Yourself is essential reading for independent consultants/partnerships and associates, new entrants to large consultancy practices, internal consultants, indeed everyone interested in the field of consultancy. Applying the insights of NLP to this competitive sphere, this is a consultancy guide that offers unique and progressive consultancy strategies.
Carol Harris has been an independent consultant for more than fifteen years. Her practice, Management Magic, specialises in the development of people and organisations using NLP approaches. Carol’s background is in HR, general management, business development and consultancy. She is a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultancy and of the Institute of Personnel and Development, a member of the British Association of Communicators in Business, a Professional Full Member of the Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming and an Associate Member of the Federation of Image Consultants. Carol has served on national committees, and chaired branches of the IPD. She has also been on the IMC’s committee for women in consultancy. She is editor of the NLP magazine Rapport, and has written various books and articles, and produced audiotapes, on personal development. Carol is a member of the Richmond Group, a consortium of independent consultants.
Review
Whether you are
working as a consultant or are planning to become one, this
book is for you! It covers all aspects of what it means to be
a consultant. The first and second chapters discuss the kinds
of competencies and attitudes a consultant needs. Chapters 3
to 6 discuss what is means to set up as an independent
consultant, how to promote yourself etc. The rest of the book
teaches you skills related to practical aspects of being a
consultant, such as self-management, helping other to develop,
writing skills, etc. In short, you'll find in this book what a
consultant needs to demonstrate in order to be successful, and
it is written in a language that clearly stays away from the
NLP jargon.
Patrick Merlevede, 7EQ Newsletter