Tuesday 3 January 2012

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Our class started with Proposal Writing. Proposal Writing is amazingly the application of ‘significance of understanding the context’ in real life is as high as significance of consuming water. Every situation, moment, problem, relationship, challenge or subject needs through understanding of the context of the matter being looked upon.
We were also asked to read and come prepared with chapter 9 and 10 of the book “Flawless Consulting”.
Chapter 9 talks about how to deal with resistance in a consulting assignment. It emphasis that whenever a consultant comes across a resistance with the client, the basic strategy should be to help resistance blow out and not to fight against it head on. One should ask client that what he feels about the situation and ask the client to be authentic and share whatever he experiences about the situation. So getting the client to talk more about the concerns is helping the storm to pass and defending one’s own point of view keeps the storm alive. It also taks about basic steps for dealing with resistence.Three Steps in Dealing with resistance are
1.  Pick up the cues
2.  Understand Resistance & Name the Resistance
3.  Wait for Client to Respond



Chapter 10 deals with moving on to the discovery phase. It states that after handling the resistance, problem moves into discovery phase. Here root cause of the issue should be identified. Often it happens that there are underlying problem to the apparent one. It should be properly identified and then communicated to the manager.

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