Management Consultancy Skills
Management Consultancy Skills
Module summary
In place of the more traditional dissertation, managers undertake two consultancy projects. These group projects with established businesses allow managers to adapt theory to help an organisation achieve its goals, developing teamwork and negotiation skills.
Module aims
This module aims to offer a practical approach to management consultancy skills whether used in external consultancy (for those intending to seek positions in management consultancy practices) or internal consultancy (for those interested in managing consultancy projects within their employing organisations). To achieve this aim the module will draw on the knowledge base in the other MBA modules to undertake two consultancy projects within a taught framework of management consultancy skills. These will be undertaken with a client organisation and will be either two integrated parts of one large project from diagnosis to recommendations or two separate projects. The two projects will either be for the same organisation or separate organisations as specific issues and circumstances dictate.
Module objectives
- Understand the consultancy process and roles within it
- Application of client management and ethics during management consultancy activities
- Exposure to, and effective use of, a set of analytical consultancy tools and techniques
- Understand, and apply, the fundamentals of facilitation skills and consultative workshops
- Apply project and programme management skills in consultancy activities
- Utilise information gathering and research methods approaches to support consultancy activities
- Development of interpersonal and communications skills
- Ability to set up and manage a management consultancy
Please note: This information is subject to review and change without notice.
