- Lectures: 13
- Quizzes: 1
- Duration: 3 days
Categories: Marketing, Media and Communications
This course is aimed at those who wish to gain an understanding of the role of a consultant. It identifies the importance of professionalism and client engagement. This course, you can identify reasons why an organisation may employ the services of a consultant, explain how a consultant can add value to a client organisation , describe the stages in the consultancy cycle, discuss the importance of professional and ethical conduct in consulting, explain why it is important for a consultant to plan for personal professional development, evaluate current skills knowledge and behaviours against those identified in the consultancy competency framework, produce a personal development plan to support development, evaluate different methods of communication available to a consultant and evaluate the importance of using diverse communication methods with clients .
What will I learn?
- Understand the nature of consulting
- Be able to prepare for professional personal development as a consultant
- Know how to communicate effectively with clients
Requirements
- Basic understanding of Consultancy
- Access to the internet for the material linked from the courses
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 13 Lessons
- 3 Days
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- Section 1: Understand the importance of communicationIn this section we'll show you how this course has been structured and how to get the most out of it. We'll also show you how to solve the exercises and submit quizzes.4
- Section 2: Preparing professional personal development as a consultantTo view any of these courses, you must be a registered student.4
- 3.1Explain why it is important for a consultant to plan for personal professional development
- 3.2Evaluate current skills knowledge and behaviours against those identified in the consultancy competency framework
- 3.3Produce a personal development plan to support development
- 3.4Explain the importance of reflective practice in developing oneself as a consultant
- Section 3: Learning how to communicate with clientsTo view any of these courses, you must be a registered student.4
- 4.1Evaluate different methods of communication available to a consultant
- 4.23 Evaluate the importance of using diverse communication methods with clients
- 4.3Explain the impact of communication methods on the client relationship
- 4.4Assess the communication challenges facing a consultant to the client organisation
- Section 4: Wrapping upTo view any of these courses, you must be a registered student.2
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