Following from LO12543 & LO12560
The true consultant in business development programmes can only be a
facilitator. Technical consultants are a different kettle of fish. The
GOOD consultant has a truly flexible approach & does not sell solutions.
The consultant is there to help create an environment in which people in
the business are free to develop their own solutions. After all they are
the ones who have the knowledge of the existing system and are the ones
who will have to make the new one work. The tools of the consultant are
therefore ones which enable creativity, discussion and agreement. Along
the way it may also be appropriate for the consultant to add in
possibilities from their own experience and this are as well as not
instead of the experience in the business.
Getting back to Learning Organisations. If we use this definition of a
consultant are we not talking about creating an organisation in which
everybody can act as a consultant (facilitator) for everybody else?
Thanks for your postings Frank and Edwin.
Yours in further enquiry
Matthew
Matthew Holmes
E-Mail: matthew.holmes@warwick.ac.uk
Warwick Manufacturing Group
University of Warwick, UK
Learning through Change
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