Replying to LO29029 --
Fred Nickols wrote:
I've been a "consultant" for 30 years. I was trained initially as an
organization development (OD) consultant and so I adopted early on the
notion that consulting is a helping profession and that help is defined by
the recipient, not the provider. My choice as a consultant is to choose
to help or not in light of my client's aims and ambitions, not to
determine what is or isn't good for the client. That's his or her call;
mine is limited to what is or isn't good for me. To be sure, I will at
times work very hard to help a client see how what he or she is doing is
getting in the way of getting what he or she wants
Hi Fred,
I have had the same experience at the large Corporate client level. We
have disagreed many times with a client's approach to an OD/HRD/Training
problem, and have tried very hard to make them understand why they
shouldn't do it that way. But the bottom line is: if that's what they
want, then that's what you must provide to them. To do otherwise is to
risk losing the project, contract, and client; I have seen this happen.
That being said, we always do our best to have their ill advised approach
be as successful as possible.
Regards,
Ed
--"Ed Heinrich" <eheinric@csc.com>
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