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Project Management Training Online provides Consulting Skills PDU courses, including project management skill groupings in "Consulting with the External Client", "Consulting with the Internal Client", and "Internal Consulting for the Technical Professional".


 

PDU Consulting
  Quan.   Description Price
1.   Essentials of External Consulting - 5.0 hours/PDUs
You may already have a reputation as something of an area specialist or problem solver. You may have a number of years of general management experience, or you may have recently acquired a management qualification. Perhaps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an external consulting role. What do external consultants really do? Although they may work in a variety of disciplines, clearly the role means being an advocate or representative of your organization. For such a role, you'll
Item No. CONS0111		 $19.99
$54.95
2.   The Client-Consultant Relationship - 5.0 hours/PDUs
Getting to know your clients and their needs are the vital first steps to establishing productive working relationships. Understanding more about their organizations and what they expect from you will be essential if you are to provide a high-quality service that will excite them. You will also need to know how to recognize all the stakeholders and the real decision makers within an organization, and build teams that can function quickly and effectively.
Item No. CONS0112		 $19.99
$54.95
3.   Diagnosing and Planning - 4.0 hours/PDUs
Your success as a consultant depends on your ability to diagnose each situation correctly. You need to use your previous experience, and bring fresh ideas to every new contract. Frameworks and models help you to make an effective diagnosis. They help you to evaluate the strategic position of the client organization, which is vital. To deliver solutions that are relevant and appropriate to the client's particular business, you must have a knowledge of the organization. Each organization is unique
Item No. CONS0113		 $19.99
$54.95
4.   Managing Delivery - 3.5 hours/PDUs
Delivering to clients is the most important thing you do as an external consultant. Everything else--the selling and the fighting to win the contract--stands for nothing if you fail to deliver outstanding results time and time again. To keep your reputation intact, delivering to time, quality, and budget is the very least that you must achieve. To ensure that clients remain enthusiastic about what you can offer them, you must deliver effective project management throughout the consulting assignm
Item No. CONS0114		 $19.99
$54.95
5.   Evaluation and Review - 4.0 hours/PDUs
So, is it success or failure? It's crucial that you take time to review your completed project and confirm the outcomes. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned? And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an external consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This course will help you review any consulting project, bring about successful handoff to the client, and
Item No. CONS0115		 $19.99
$54.95
6.   Consulting with the External Client Simulation
Modern corporations employ consultants for their experience, knowledge, and skills. The primary responsibility of these consultants is to facilitate decision making for senior management. To do this, external consultants gather information using proven techniques, analyze current business situations with specific diagnostic methods, and make recommendations based on those processes. In this simulation, you are a consultant at LocoMotion Think Tank. Your assignment is to advise Automation Control
Item No. CONS0110		 $19.99
$54.95
7.   Course Bundle: Consulting with the External Client
This bundle includes:
  • "Essentials of External Consulting" Item No. CONS0111
  • "The Client-Consultant Relationship" Item No. CONS0112
  • "Diagnosing and Planning" Item No. CONS0113
  • "Managing Delivery" Item No. CONS0114
  • "Evaluation and Review" Item No. CONS0115
  • "Consulting with the External Client Simulation" Item No. CONS0110

    • Item No. CONS0119    		 $94.99
    $329.70
    8.   Essentials of Internal Consulting - 4.0 hours/PDUs
    You may already have a reputation as something of an area specialist. Perhaps you've now been asked to deploy your knowledge in an internal consulting role. Or maybe you've always been attracted to this role and you would now like to find out more? What will it mean for you? What does an internal consultant do? How do you become one? And if you have just become one, what is expected of you? This course addresses these questions. If it is a new role for you, it will support you and help you to
    Item No. CONS0121    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    9.   Internal Consulting Skills - 3.5 hours/PDUs
    What skills do you need to be a successful internal consultant? What skills do you have already, and which should you develop further? This course gives you the opportunity to review your existing abilities and ways of improving your current performance. Internal consulting is not only about your specialist or technical knowledge. It's about your ability to communicate. If you fail to get your message across to other people, your ideas will be lost, and even your best plans will fail. Fundamenta
    Item No. CONS0122    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    10.   Establishing a Relationship with Internal Clients - 4.0 hours/PDUs
    Even if your clients are internal to your organization, you still need to spend time getting to know them, and understanding what it is they require from you. When you are dealing with internal clients, there may be a temptation to think you know everything about them, and about the project. This course will stop you from making that mistake. It will enable you to understand your clients' needs clearly, in terms of project requirements and the way they work. By understanding your clients, you w
    Item No. CONS0123    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    11.   A Workable Solution for Internal Clients - 4.0 hours/PDUs
    One of the many challenges of working as an internal consultant is that of "making things happen." But making decisions isn't always easy. There are so many options and you may encounter resistance to changes you propose during internal consulting assignments. How should you deal with this? And how can you be so sure that working practices won't simply revert back once you're "off the scene?" You don't want to be seen as a "visitor" who simply recommends change and then lets others make it happe
    Item No. CONS0124    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    12.   Evaluating Internal Assignments - 4.5 hours/PDUs
    So, is it success or failure? It's crucial that you take time to review your project and confirm outcomes on completion. What has been achieved, and what didn't go as planned? And how have you performed personally? Of course, success depends on your ability as an internal consultant to continually develop in the role, increase your skills, and make overall improvements in your performance. This course will help you to review internal consulting projects, complete successful handoffs, and identi
    Item No. CONS0125    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    13.   Consulting with the Internal Client Simulation
    Internal consultants have become more and more prevalent in the business world today. Rather than hiring an outside firm, many companies are building their own internal consulting units. These units are faster, cheaper, and more connected to the projects they manage. Internal consultants within these units must have strong communication, research, diagnostic, and presentation skills. In this simulation, you are a marketing manager at Millennium Mobility, a global manufacturing company that m
    Item No. CONS0120    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    14.   Consulting with the Internal Client
    This bundle includes:
  • "Essentials of Internal Consulting" Item No. CONS0121
  • "Internal Consulting Skills" Item No. CONS0122
  • "Establishing a Relationship with Internal Clients" Item No. CONS0123
  • "A Workable Solution for Internal Clients" Item No. CONS0124
  • "Evaluating Internal Assignments" Item No. CONS0125
  • "Consulting with the Internal Client Simulation" Item No. CONS0120

    • Item No. CONS0129    		 $94.99
    $329.70
    15.   The Technical Professional as Internal Consultant - 4.0 hours/PDUs
    Traditionally, consultants have been seen as experts outside an organization who are hired to appraise a situation and recommend paths toward improvement. These agents of change may be brought in to downsize a company, recommend efficiency improvements, recommend ways to improve employee morale, or facilitate other changes. Today, companies are selecting technical professionals within the organization to accomplish similar results. This course is designed to provide technical professionals with
    Item No. CONS0131    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    16.   Creating Effective Contracts - 3.0 hours/PDUs
    When you hear the word "contract", you may think of a written, legal document. However, when it comes to consulting relationships, contracts are more about setting expectations and involving the right people instead of setting legal parameters. In this course, you'll examine how to approach contracting, the considerations that are most important, and how you should approach the contracting meeting.
    Item No. CONS0132    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    17.   Using Data as a Technical Professional Consultant - 4.0 hours/PDUs
    As a technical professional, you may have relied on reports from subordinates or your own observations and research for information. While the information garnered in these ways is still useful, in your role as an internal consultant, you may have to develop surveys or conduct interviews with individuals or groups in order to quickly collect the data pertinent to your current project. In addition, you will be analyzing the information, arriving at conclusions, and presenting your findings and re
    Item No. CONS0133    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    18.   Resistance and Technical Professional Consultants - 2.5 hours/PDUs
    When you are a technical professional working as an internal consultant in an organization, you will inevitably encounter resistance. Whether resistance is expressed overtly or subtly, you increase your effectiveness as an internal consultant when you can identify it and deal with it appropriately. This course is designed to help technical professionals acting as internal consultants to recognize resistance and deal with it appropriately to ensure a positive consulting experience.
    Item No. CONS0134    		 $19.99
    $54.95
    19.   Internal Consulting for the Technical Professional
    This bundle includes:
  • "The Technical Professional as Internal Consultant" Item No. CONS0131
  • "Creating Effective Contracts" Item No. CONS0132
  • "Using Data as a Technical Professional Consultant" Item No. CONS0133
  • "Resistance and Technical Professional Consultants" Item No. CONS0134

    • Item No. CONS0139    		 $64.99
    $219.80
    All prices in US Dollars

     
    		  



     

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