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Consulting Skills for Communicators

Consulting Skills for Communicators

by Stacy Wilson, ABC

A manual, toolkit and workshop to help communication professionals improve their internal consulting capabilities. Consulting Skills for Communicators is a how-to manual with exercises, real-world stories from communicators around the world and a toolkit that includes 14 customizable templates. Get the manual and toolkit for your own self-study. Add the facilitator's guide to train your whole team.

Feel like an order-taker? Fulfilling communication requests, never delivering strategic counsel to your organization? Start thinking like a consultant and you can:

• Influence business success.
• Build your credibility.
• Build your network.
• Sharpen your business skills.
• Become an organizational asset.

But how do you learn to be a great consultant? Tap into what internal and external consultants around the world know about delivering superior consulting services with Consulting Skills for Communicators. This self-paced manual, toolkit and team workshop can help individuals and teams deliver a whole new level of service.What topics are included?

The manual and workshop address the consulting process and five key skills that, once mastered, will position you to be an effective consultant:

• Teaching
• Negotiation
• Presentation
• Facilitation
• Process analysis;

Facilitator's Guide

Mapped to the manual, this guide gives your corporate trainer step-by-step instructions for delivering classroom training to your team. It gives you rights to print up to 50 copies of the manual (purchased separately) and post the toolkit on your intranet so your entire team can leverage its benefits long-term.
The guide includes extra scenarios, agendas for different session lengths, tips for preparing and a facilitator's reading list.

The Manual and Toolkit

This 125-page manual includes relevant scenarios, exercises and background to help you learn the key elements of internal consulting. It is full of real stories from communicators around the world. The manual includes a resource list of books, articles and web sites to help you learn more. The toolkit includes 18 tools, including 14 customizable templates.