LDR 5074 - Coaching and Consulting for Organizations

4 Credit Hours

This course is an examination of the skills required to get expertise used in the practice of internal consulting in the organization and how to maximize effectiveness in bringing about the development of individuals, teams, organizations and careers. The course explores how organizational goals, objectives and strategies are met using the consulting skills required for successful leadership interventions. It demonstrates the changes leaders go through to make the transition from individual contributor to being an internal consultant that facilitates the process for others. It will illustrate the shifts needed to go from having known solutions to collaborating with the organizational members to devise, heretofore, unknown solutions to unknown problems. The course will include a simulation of an organization with a given situation and the students will act as internal consultants to a simulated organization, represented by a group of other students.

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