Flawless consulting fieldbook & companion: a guide to understanding your expertise / Peter Block and 29 flawless consultants.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Block, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business consultants.

Consultants.

Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

In the newly revised second edition of the Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, best-selling author and consultant Peter Block delivers an invaluable companion to the fourth edition of his popular Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise. In the book, you’ll find an expansive toolkit you can draw on for information and guidance in the midst of your next consulting engagement. It’s a just-in-time literary aid that you can read from front-to-back, or one you can grab and skip to a specific thread or theme you need to read about right now. An invaluable collection of resources for consultants everywhere, Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, 2nd edition will rapidly become your most used and dog-eared reference for everyday consulting engagements.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contributors

Contents

Welcome

A Friend Indeed

Fieldbook and Guide

Seeing More in What We Do

Moving On

The Icons

Part 1 No Fast and Easy Way

Chapter 1 Flawless

Chapter 2 Transformation Is Slow, Small, and Low Cost

Community Through "Houses"

The First Open Space Meeting

Morning Circles: Checking In

Mentoring Administrators and Teachers

The Advantages of Restorative Practices

The Benefit of Design

You're Invited to a Pro Action Café

Reducing Disciplinary Referrals and Expulsions

Designed to Succeed

Chapter 3 Risk Is Where You Find It

No Pain, No Pain

The Risks We Fear

Vulnerability Is a Sign of Life

Chapter 4 Consultant, Flawed: A Story of Eternal Internal Triangles

Part 2 The Complexity of Advice

Chapter 5 Partners for Possibility

An Encouraged Principal

Peter Block and Community Building Workshops

Dinokeng Scenarios

Walking Together in Education

Piloting an Idea at a Primary School

Leadership Development Through Immersion and Service

South Africa: Alive with Possibility

Partners for Possibility

Reflecting on Thirteen Years of Impact

Chapter 6 Changing Focus: The New Direction of "Flawless" Consulting

Flawless Contracting

Change: Now and Future

Chapter 7 Be Careful Who You Ask: Perils of Wisdom

From Myth and History

The Educated Expert

Partnership: The Promise and Perils

Mining the Expert Within

Chapter 8 Dealing with Resistance: Having the Right Conversation in Difficult Situations

Revealing Resistance

Four Guidelines for Exposing Content and Emotions

Taking the Risk

Part 3 The Power of the Question

Chapter 9 Flawless Goes to Parliament

Consulting in Parliament

Partnership and Transparency

Introducing Process Checks

Opening up the Room.

A Legislative Victory

A Decentralized Bank

Research Scientists Embrace Consulting

Chapter 10 A Cautionary Tale: Trying on Yesterday's Methodologies

A Brief History

Today's Reality

Consulting Methodology in Today's World

Consultant as Perturber

Purpose of an Intervention

The Alignment Model

Chapter 11 Change Is in the Details

The Angel in the Details

Knowing a Good Question When You Hear One

Chapter 12 Talk Is Walk: Language and Courage in Action

Leadership Talk

Anxiety and Courage

Strength at the Broken Places

The Constructive Uses of Anxiety

Chapter 13 So, What's Working Here?

Engagement Begins with Discovery

Surfacing the Positive

Hope in a Holographic World

Part 4 Emotions and the Personal

Chapter 14 From Organization Development to Making Music

Chapter 15 One Woman's Wisdom: Balancing Competence with Consciousness

The Labor Is the Client's

The Importance of Being Seen and Heard

The Wisdom of the Next Small Step

Relationship Matters-and Know When to Let Go

Work and Family Inhabit the Same Life

Women Teaching Women

"Powerful," "Female," and "Presence" Go Together

In Closing

Chapter 16 Sneaking the Spirit In

Doing the Real Work

Witness to the Spirit

Be an Evocator

Freedom Is More Than Just Another Word

Part 5 Valuing Capacities

Chapter 17 Consultant for the Classroom

Performance over Learning

Teacher as Learner

Humanity and Gifts

Contracting with Students

The Trip to Washington, D.C.

Choice Matters

Chapter 18 Talking with Sled Dogs: Leading from Behind

Test Ride

The Plan

Relationships

The Jump to Action

Review of the Event

Learnings

Chapter 19 Investing in Our Humanity: Women's Leadership Collaborative

Connection/Inclusion

Sameness/Difference

Power/Competition.

Projection/Scapegoating

Ongoing Reflections and Hope

Part 6 Integrating Strategy and Experience

Chapter 20 The Engagement Paradigm: Changing the Way We Change Our Organizations

The Old Change Management Paradigm

The Engagement Paradigm: The Conference Model

Chapter 21 Unleashing the Magic in Organizations

One-Brain, One-Heart Beliefs

What Sparks the Magic

The Taco Cabana Intervention

Chapter 22 Nancy's Advice

Chapter 23 Anonymous Interviews?: Definitely Yes and No

The Appeal of Anonymity

When and When Not to Collect Data Anonymously

Chapter 24 Community: Once upon a Time in a Place Called Home

Once upon a Time

Leaving the Old, Embracing the New

The Community's Vision

From Ideas to Action

Chapter 25 How Is Who Doing?

Spotlight on Participants

How We Evaluate Carries a Message

High-Accountability Evaluation

Now Is the Hour

Confronting the Wish to Be Passive

Part 7 No Masks, No Bargains

Chapter 26 Proximal Health: A Surgeon's Perspective

Chapter 27 My Worst Consulting Nightmare

The Lessons

Next Time

Chapter 28 Seven Questions: To the Most Frequently Asked Answers

Postscript

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781394205745

1394205740

OCLC:

1430211966