The Consultant's Tool Kit

Consultants need help too! Consulting is a demanding profession and today's busier-than-ever consultant needs intelligent tools and resources to speed up and improve the process of working with clients. Help is now here in The Consultant's ToolKit, an indispensable collection of 50 sophisticated team and organizational assessment questionnaires, team problem-solving activities, and how-to guides for diagnosing and solving client problems. Whatever the challenges facing you as a consultant-from showing your clients how to manage and lead change, to improving relationships between departments, to goal setting and planning-this book provides dozens of client-tested problem-solving tools and solutions that can be used immediately, saving you hours of time and making your interaction with clients more effective.

Created by 50 top professionals in the consulting industry, all the tools in this sourcebook are fully reproducible and can be easily customized to fit your client's needs. Included are creative, ready-to-implement approaches to guiding a client in:

• Finding the right business strategy
  
• Making meetings more productive
  
• Creating effective teams
  
• Involving people in decisions that affect them
  
• Coaching employees through change
  
• Identifying performance problems
  
• Dealing with management resistance
  
• Stimulating creative thinking
  
• And much more

Contents

• Assessment Questionnaires to Study Your Client's Needs.
  
• Does Your Client's Business Strategy Make Sense?
  
• How Motivating Is Your Client's Organization'
  
• What Does a Team Need to Improve?
  
• Is It a Learning Organization'
  
• Does Your Client's Strategic Plan Give Them the Competitive Edge?
  
• What Makes Teams Effective?
  
• Why Isn't the Team Making Decisions'
  
• How Do Your Client's View Their Organization's Performance.
  
• What Needs Changing in Your Client's Organization'
  
• What Are Your Client's Leadership Competencies'
  
• What Are Your Client's Coaching Strengths'
  
• Have your Clients Update Their Job Requirements Recently?
  
• Are Your Making Effective Contact with Your Client?
  
• How-To Guides for Solving Your Client's Problems.
  
• How to Plan and Analyze Surveys.
  
• How to Make Appropriate Use of Four Organizational Assessment Tools.
  
• How to Coach Employees through Change.
  
• How to Initiate and Manage Change.
  
• How to Involve People in Decisions That Affect Them.
  
• How to Motivate Others.
  
• (and more...)