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Providing counseling professionals with a solid grounding in the primary theories, skills, and models used by professional consultants, Counselor as Consultant is the first text that explicitly addresses the new CACREP core standards for consultation. The book's strong focus on intentionality, reflection, and wellness helps readers develop a strong sense of counselor identity, while its structure and exercises reinforce learning. Abundant exercises and case illustrations help counselors-in-training translate theory into practice and learn the essential skills needed for consultation positions.
Consultation in Organizational Settings
Consultation in Organizational Settings
Introduction
In my consultation work with organizations, the most common issue is improving the bottom line. This may mean working on increasing productivity, improving managerial skills, or examining the relationships between management and the employees. Lewis Aron (2012) uses the term executive coaching (p. 511) as a role that organizational consultants may play when working with an organization. Consultants may find the term coach in use more and more as this style of assistance (and role) continues to increase in the field of consultation (coaching was discussed in Chapter 8). Carolyn Swift and Saul Cooper (1986) also support that in the past, the goal of organizational consultation boils down to increasing productivity and profit. They went on to ...
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