Flawless consulting fieldbook & companion a guide to understanding your expertise
In the newly revised second edition of the Flawless Consulting Fieldbook, best-selling author and consultant Peter Block delivers an invaluable companion to the fourth edition of his popular Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise. In the book, you’ll find an expansive toolkit y...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
2024.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811318306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contributors
- Contents
- Welcome
- A Friend Indeed
- Fieldbook and Guide
- Seeing More in What We Do
- Moving On
- The Icons
- Part 1 No Fast and Easy Way
- Chapter 1 Flawless
- Chapter 2 Transformation Is Slow, Small, and Low Cost
- Community Through "Houses"
- The First Open Space Meeting
- Morning Circles: Checking In
- Mentoring Administrators and Teachers
- The Advantages of Restorative Practices
- The Benefit of Design
- You're Invited to a Pro Action Café
- Reducing Disciplinary Referrals and Expulsions
- Designed to Succeed
- Chapter 3 Risk Is Where You Find It
- No Pain, No Pain
- The Risks We Fear
- Vulnerability Is a Sign of Life
- Chapter 4 Consultant, Flawed: A Story of Eternal Internal Triangles
- Part 2 The Complexity of Advice
- Chapter 5 Partners for Possibility
- An Encouraged Principal
- Peter Block and Community Building Workshops
- Dinokeng Scenarios
- Walking Together in Education
- Piloting an Idea at a Primary School
- Leadership Development Through Immersion and Service
- South Africa: Alive with Possibility
- Partners for Possibility
- Reflecting on Thirteen Years of Impact
- Chapter 6 Changing Focus: The New Direction of "Flawless" Consulting
- Flawless Contracting
- Change: Now and Future
- Chapter 7 Be Careful Who You Ask: Perils of Wisdom
- From Myth and History
- The Educated Expert
- Partnership: The Promise and Perils
- Mining the Expert Within
- Chapter 8 Dealing with Resistance: Having the Right Conversation in Difficult Situations
- Revealing Resistance
- Four Guidelines for Exposing Content and Emotions
- Taking the Risk
- Part 3 The Power of the Question
- Chapter 9 Flawless Goes to Parliament
- Consulting in Parliament
- Partnership and Transparency
- Introducing Process Checks
- Opening up the Room.
- A Legislative Victory
- A Decentralized Bank
- Research Scientists Embrace Consulting
- Chapter 10 A Cautionary Tale: Trying on Yesterday's Methodologies
- A Brief History
- Today's Reality
- Consulting Methodology in Today's World
- Consultant as Perturber
- Purpose of an Intervention
- The Alignment Model
- Chapter 11 Change Is in the Details
- The Angel in the Details
- Knowing a Good Question When You Hear One
- Chapter 12 Talk Is Walk: Language and Courage in Action
- Leadership Talk
- Anxiety and Courage
- Strength at the Broken Places
- The Constructive Uses of Anxiety
- Chapter 13 So, What's Working Here?
- Engagement Begins with Discovery
- Surfacing the Positive
- Hope in a Holographic World
- Part 4 Emotions and the Personal
- Chapter 14 From Organization Development to Making Music
- Chapter 15 One Woman's Wisdom: Balancing Competence with Consciousness
- The Labor Is the Client's
- The Importance of Being Seen and Heard
- The Wisdom of the Next Small Step
- Relationship Matters-and Know When to Let Go
- Work and Family Inhabit the Same Life
- Women Teaching Women
- "Powerful," "Female," and "Presence" Go Together
- In Closing
- Chapter 16 Sneaking the Spirit In
- Doing the Real Work
- Witness to the Spirit
- Be an Evocator
- Freedom Is More Than Just Another Word
- Part 5 Valuing Capacities
- Chapter 17 Consultant for the Classroom
- Performance over Learning
- Teacher as Learner
- Humanity and Gifts
- Contracting with Students
- The Trip to Washington, D.C.
- Choice Matters
- Chapter 18 Talking with Sled Dogs: Leading from Behind
- Test Ride
- The Plan
- Relationships
- The Jump to Action
- Review of the Event
- Learnings
- Chapter 19 Investing in Our Humanity: Women's Leadership Collaborative
- Connection/Inclusion
- Sameness/Difference
- Power/Competition.
- Projection/Scapegoating
- Ongoing Reflections and Hope
- Part 6 Integrating Strategy and Experience
- Chapter 20 The Engagement Paradigm: Changing the Way We Change Our Organizations
- The Old Change Management Paradigm
- The Engagement Paradigm: The Conference Model
- Chapter 21 Unleashing the Magic in Organizations
- One-Brain, One-Heart Beliefs
- What Sparks the Magic
- The Taco Cabana Intervention
- Chapter 22 Nancy's Advice
- Chapter 23 Anonymous Interviews?: Definitely Yes and No
- The Appeal of Anonymity
- When and When Not to Collect Data Anonymously
- Chapter 24 Community: Once upon a Time in a Place Called Home
- Once upon a Time
- Leaving the Old, Embracing the New
- The Community's Vision
- From Ideas to Action
- Chapter 25 How Is Who Doing?
- Spotlight on Participants
- How We Evaluate Carries a Message
- High-Accountability Evaluation
- Now Is the Hour
- Confronting the Wish to Be Passive
- Part 7 No Masks, No Bargains
- Chapter 26 Proximal Health: A Surgeon's Perspective
- Chapter 27 My Worst Consulting Nightmare
- The Lessons
- Next Time
- Chapter 28 Seven Questions: To the Most Frequently Asked Answers
- Postscript
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index
- EULA.
