The Conscious Consultant Mastering Change from the Inside Out

by Quade, Kristine; Brown, Renee M.

• ISBN13: 9780787958800
• ISBN10: 0787958808
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-24
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

Find out what it takes to become an effective consultant! In order to succeed as a change agent and consultant we must clarify our own purpose, motivation, and relationship with our careers. The Conscious Consultant--a book in The Practicing Organization Development Series--offers a much-needed road map and powerful tool that consultants can use to perform a personal assessment of foundational principles in order to achieve greater integrity and alignment with personal values and career. The book's Active Change Model creates an understanding of what it takes to become an effective consultant who practices wisdom by making conscious choices in a thoughtful and wholehearted manner, choices that will positively influence the work that is done with all clients. "At last! A much-needed book primarily and effectively focused on the consultant's continuing quest for personal awareness--both looking deeply for one's true inner self and outward for that self in relation to clients. I do strongly agree with the author's basic thesis that we cannot expect our clients to embrace change unless we personally embrace it ourselves." --Bob Tannenbaum, emeritus professor of the development of human systems, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National OD Network

Author Biography

Kristine Quade is an independent consultant, attorney, coach, lecturer, and facilitator in custom-designed large group interactive processes with over two hundred national and international client system interventions. Renee M. Brown is an international consultant who is an expert on human dynamics, particularly in the areas of personal and organization development, constructive conflict, and creative problem solving. Editorial Board includes David Bradford, W. Warner Burke, Edith W. Seashore, Robert Tannenbaum, Christopher A. Worley, and Shaolin Zhang

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Series	xiii
Introduction to the Series	xv
Statement of the Board	xix
Foreword	xxv
Dedication	xxx
Acknowledgments	xxxi
Introduction	xxxvii
Practicing Active Change	1	(18)
The Nature of Change	1	(1)
The Active Change Model	2	(12)
Using the Active Change Model	14	(1)
Personal Change Assessment	15	(4)
Perceiving, Describing, and Accepting Who We Are	19	(34)
The Importance of Personal Change	19	(1)
About Personal Foundations	20	(30)
Foundation Development Plan	50	(3)
How Who We Are Impacts Our Work with Clients	53	(34)
How We Use Our Plans	53	(30)
Identity	54	(3)
Acceptance	57	(5)
Agreements	62	(4)
Integrity	66	(3)
Authenticity	69	(1)
Courage	70	(2)
Timing	72	(3)
Knowledge	75	(2)
Communication	77	(2)
Wisdom	79	(4)
Foundation Development Plan	83	(4)
Opening the Doors of Change with Questions	87	(28)
Active Change Is Not a Haphazard Process	87	(1)
Gathering Data	88	(3)
State of Being: The Seeker on a Quest	91	(3)
Knowledge: What We Know or Do Not Know	94	(2)
Insight: What Does the Question Really Mean?	96	(3)
Intuition: Now Where Did That Come From?	99	(1)
Risk: Willingness to Lance the Wound	100	(1)
Timing: Now Is the Only Time There Is	101	(4)
The Problem: Will the Real Problem Please Stand Out?	105	(7)
Developing Your Own Questions	112	(3)
Setting Up Agreements with Myself and with My Clients	115	(32)
Actions Contain Agreements	115	(2)
Conscious Agreements with Ourselves About Our Foundation Development	117	(3)
Conscious Agreements with Ourselves About Our Professional Work	120	(12)
Conscious Agreements with Our Clients	132	(10)
Writing Your Own Agreements	142	(5)
Professional Work as an Opportunity for Personal Growth	147	(16)
Difficulty of Changing	147	(1)
Roadblocks	148	(3)
Triggers	151	(2)
How Roadblocks and Triggers Impact Client Selection	153	(1)
Planning for What May Happen	154	(5)
Using the Active Change Model	159	(2)
Final Thoughts	161	(2)
Stories from the Field	163	(20)
Illustrating the Concepts	163	(1)
Application of the Active Change Model	163	(4)
Kathy Joyce
Application of the Personal Foundations	167	(4)
Chris Worley
Foundational Development Based on Experience	171	(4)
Robert ``Jake'' Jacobs
Bringing the Inside Work to the Outside	175	(2)
Margaret Seidler
A Way of Being in a Consulting Relationship	177	(4)
Peter Norlin
Concluding Thoughts	181	(2)
Bibliography	183	(4)
About the Authors	187	(2)
About the Editors	189	(4)
Index	193