Some of you have heard about consultants, but don’t have a broad understanding about their activity. So, I’m giving you a scientific view:
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A consultant is a highly professional individual, helping one, ore more organizations to develop ultra-competent teams engaged in complex activities. He can be an internal, or external actor, collaborating directly with superior management, human resources departament and the teams.
The role of a such person is to have a comprehensive perspective about the activity of the organization, or team, and discuss its improvements.
Selecting consultants is usualy performed by the higher management and human resources department.
Selection process consists in a set of evaluation steps like:
- Evaluate if he has a result oriented personality. In other words, he shouldn’t cope only with group relations and processes, He should tackle the real problems that organization, or team has, and improve activity.
- Test if he can quick obtain the higher management credibility and if they are satisfied with him. Will the management take its advice as a good one? Could he influence them using its expertise?
- Evaluate if he can have a proactive influence and collaborate with team(s) leader(s) and basic members and improve the main activity.
- Evaluate if he is able to halt the current activity flow if it’s needed. A consultant links its name of the client’s success and based on its experience he shouldn’t let continue an activity which goes towards failure, or a mediocre result
–bibliography - “The GOWER Management Manual”
