Consultancy Skills

Facilitator
Emma Preece

Who should attend
The workshop is suitable for a range of participants. These include chartered psychologists who wish to ‘refresh’ their consultancy skills, psychologists working towards chartership and HR professionals.

Workshop overview
Psychologists and other professionals often find themselves having to advise and influence people in their organisation in order to improve effectiveness or address organisational issues. This workshop will introduce participants to the consultancy cycle and discuss how this framework can be utilised. It will then focus on the specific consultancy styles and skills that are needed to make the cycle effective.

Aims of the workshop
The workshop will provide participants with knowledge about how the consultancy cycle can be utilised and introduce participants to the skills needed for effective consultancy. By the end of the workshop participants will:

• have gained knowledge and skills to be able to apply the consultancy cycle to organisational issues;
• have gained knowledge about the different consulting and intervention styles and appraised their own styles; and
• have gained skills to be able to apply the different consulting and intervention styles in their own organisations.

Projected outcomes and benefits of attending
The workshop will provide participants with a framework to work within as a consultant. There is a reflective focus to the workshop where self-appraisal of skill level is encouraged. Thus, in addition to gaining knowledge about the consultancy cycle and necessary skills, a key outcome will be the identification of development areas through the reflection and selfappraisal of current skill level.

Psychological theory underpinning the workshop
The workshop is underpinned by the models of consultancy described by Cockman, Evans and Reynolds (1999) and Block (1981). A variety of psychological concepts and theories underpin the skills needed for effective use of the consultancy models. These include, for example:

• Learning styles (e.g., Honey & Mumford, 1992; Kolb (1985).
• Adair’s Action-Centred leadership model.
• Johari window (Luft, 1970).
• Person centred counselling approaches.
• Questioning styles (e.g. Cockman, Evans and Reynolds, 1999; Judd, Smith and Kidder, 1991).

Pre/post work required
N/A

Date and venue
17 September 2008, 09.30 - 17.00.
The British Psychological Society, 30 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4UE.

Facilitator details
Emma Preece is a Chartered Occupational and Forensic Psychologist. She obtained her MSc in Occupational Psychology from Nottingham in 1997 and then commence employment with HM Prison Service. In this role she worked closely with senior management colleagues across numerous prisons to deliver an organisational consultancy service. This work included consultation on regime design, work place stress auditing and management, executive coaching andtraining and facilitation.In January 2006 she set up elp consulting - an independent business psychology service focusing on improving performance in the workplace. Since then she has been working across both the private and public sector to deliver organisational consultancy, training and facilitation.

Registration is now open

Reg Form: Preece 17.09.08

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