Strategic Consulting Skills for the Communications Professional

Being a recognized strategic partner in your organization and with your clients, requires more than strategic thinking and communications competence. It requires the ability to explore business needs, to sort multifaceted issues, to recommend change, to influence perspectives, and to plan for and manage resistance. This workshop will focus on strategic and practical skills for communications professionals to succeed as expert consultants inside their organizations or when providing services to businesses and organizations.

A range of successful consulting skills will be explored, with a particular emphasis on asking powerful questions, which are core to how effectively we influence and lead. Knowing how and when to ask the bold, thoughtful and key questions can help position you for success by exposing your expertise and insight and leading to innovative solutions and new directions in thinking.

Workshop participants will walk away with effective tools to help them confidently and comfortably demonstrate their respective abilities to lead and facilitate the development of communication strategies and plans that align with and support the business/organization goals and directions.

Past participants rate this workshop highly. On a scale of 1-5, where 1 = poor and 5 = excellent, rating averages are: Workshop content - 4.8; Opportunity to learn - 4.9; Instructors’ knowledge - 5.0; Overall value for time spent - 4.7.

Comments from recent participants include:

“Great workshop - I would highly recommend it to anyone!”

“I loved this workshop, very energizing. Also gives me a framework/policy of what my role is about, what I say, what I do, when I go back. Thank you so much!”

“I learned so much – this was excellent!”

“Great workshop. Real-life examples of dealing with clients was extremely helpful. The materials were concise and laid out in a clear manner.