...Claire Massey This action research study seeks to identify the barriers to effective organisational consulting, and to understand the choices consultants make in working with clients. In the first stage of the research the consultants’ experiences, their educational qualifications...

... --> Consultants Learning Policy Launch of A Declaration on Learning Keywords Consultants, Learning, Policy Eight of the leading authorities on learning in organizations ­ namely John Burgoyne, Ian Cunningham, Bob Garratt, Peter Honey, Andrew Mayo, Alan Mumford, Michael Pearn and Mike Pedler...

...‐financing body. Makes an assessment of how IROMA is conducting its new found role, the development of appropriate internal management structures and the performance of its training and consultancy staff. Gives attention to the emergence of a corporate mechanism that allows use of a cost‐centre approach...

... and explains how the process was built, focusing specifically on programme design and programme delivery. Notes the learning for client, participants and partner providers (consultants) and links it to programme outcomes. Highlights implications for the future. Generalizes learning from this specific client...

... and enthusiasm for the task. Among the disadvantages in using an outside moderator are: © MCB UP Limited 1994 Consultants Focus groups Groups Human resource development Management development Teleconferencing Trainers Training Training needs Clinical role. In this role...

... gathering and analysis. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Consultants Data Collection Human resource development Interviewing Management development Trainers Training Training needs This is the second article in a four‐part series which presents and discusses four types of training needs...

... on the experience of other industries. Training managers are asked to take on a more collaborative long‐term relationship in dealing with suppliers,which emphasizes productivity, learning and innovation. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Consultants Customers Research Suppliers Trainers Training RESEARCH...

...Del Loewenthal Explores an approach to management training for the post‐professional through describing and evaluating a one‐year management development programme for medical consultants that has run for five years in England. The background, and issue‐based participant‐centred approaches...

...Bill Evans; Peter Reynolds; Peter Cockman Builds on the work of previous authors to present a cyclical model of the process of consultation. Also argues that when consultation is perceived in this way the process becomes consistent with models of experiential learning and learning styles developed...

...Philip Lewis This article examines the process of setting up a contract between the training manager and the training consultant. It argues that the potential for the training event, that is the subject of the contract,to be ineffective, is great. Consequently the process has to be well managed...

...Gerald P. Chickillo; Brian H. Kleiner The practice of consultancy primarily in the US is discussed and is broken down into five separate sections. The first section takes a look at the history of consulting and what trends it is taking into the 1990s. The second section takes a brief look at who...