BUSI45J15: Consulting

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• To develop students' abilities to apply their knowledge and skills to explore problematic situations, and identify and gain agreement to actions to enable improvement.

• The nature of consultancy
• Consultant Role and Responsibilities
• The Consultancy Cycle
• Organisational Change
• Consultancy Capabilities
• Ethical Consultancy and Professionalism
• Careers in Consultancy

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of the module students should:
• Have a critical understanding of the different roles and responsibilities of the consultant;
• Have a critical understanding of a consultancy cycle as a way to structure a consulting assignment;
• Have a critical understanding of the ethical and professional elements of consultancy.

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of the module students should:
• Have the ability to apply the consultancy cycle to scope, plan and manage a consulting assignment;
• Have the ability to apply knowledge to explore an organisational issue and identify opportunities for improvements.

Key Skills:

• The ability to critically identify and evaluate key issues within an organisation;
• Planning, organisational and time management skills;
• Problem solving and analytical skills;
• Skills of effective self-management including motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise;
• Ability to think creatively about organisational issues and interventions to address them;
• Skills to present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders in an organisation.

• The lectures and seminars will introduce a consultancy framework and key elements of the consulting toolkit. They will also consider managing key stakeholder relationships including those with clients.
• The focus in the seminars is based upon "learning by doing", so that participants can work in groups on activities and issues that are representative of those undertaken by consultants.

The formative assignment will involve students working in the groups they will work in on their summative assignment. The aim of the formative will be to identify how they will work on their summative and to produce a plan for the consultancy assignment which they will conduct.

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