The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting

I teach Healthcare Consulting at UGA's College of Public Health. This books serves as the text. It works well as this class is a hands on, do a consulting assignment and the business of that consulting assignment type of course. The course runs 14 weeks during a semester.The chapters of the book guide us to that end of completing a successful consulting assignment, including a method for billing for the consulting engagement.Here are the chapter titles:1. Consultants and Consulting2. Establishing Expectations and Goals3. Formalizing the Agreement:Proposals and Contracts4. Developing a Project Strategy:Diagnosis and Data Collection5. Interviewing6. Preparing the Feedback/Assessment Report: Moving the Client to Action7. Presenting the Findings8. Initiating Action9. Ending the Project10. Some Final ThoughtsThe examples in the book are helpful and concise. I like the book and so do my students.

There are a lot of good books on consulting out there, and this is one of the best. Linda K. Stroh and Homer H. Johnson cover all of the basics of good consulting - establishing expectations and goals with a client, proposal preparation, developing a project strategy, presenting your findings, and project wrap-up.The authors include the perspectives of third parties in their "From the Experts..." inserts throughout the book. These inserts present a point-of-view from outside experts on topics such as "Data Collection Begins at the Beginning!", "Listen Up!", and "Presenting the Findings". As an author myself, I like this approach to writing.This is a well-organized, informative book written by professionals who know what it takes to be a successful consultant. I highly recommend it.Mitch Paioff, Author, Getting Started as an Independent Computer Consultant Getting Started as an Independent Computer Consultant

This book is more geared towards people who either consult on their own or work for a small firm where they have to manage every aspect of the engagement. The advice given in this book is sound, but if you're interested in working for a large consulting firm like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or some of the lesser big firms, you will most likely never have to deal with most of the issues covered in this book.

This was one of our textbooks in a Sustainability & Consulting graduate class at UC Berkeley. It's laid out as a short textbook/handbook.

This is pretty easy to read. I didn't want to waste like 20 bucks on a book that I was only going to use for a semester, but I did. So yeah. Nice examples. Informative. But keep the paperback because you probably can't sell it to anyone anyway.

THAT'S WHAT I NEED

Fast delivery. The book is in good condition. The contents are a bit boring for me but should be quite useful.

I am in agreement with the review written by Margaret Neale of Stanford University in that this book is able to effectively travel the distance between novice and experienced consultants alike. This will certainly prove to be an excellent consulting tool for everyone and anyone who reads and embracing the lessons within The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting. I would highly recommend this book.

Tres bon livre qui donne beaucoup d'exemples et explique tres bien la methodologie du Consulting. Excellent! A lire absolument si on veut apprendre ou enseigner les bases du Consulting.