CLIENT, CLARIFY, CREATE, CHANGE, CONFIRM, CONTINUE, CLOSE = THE SEVEN
SECRETS OF CONSULTANCY
The definition of a consultant is someone who facilitates organisational change
and provides expertise on technical, functional and business topics during development or
implementation. In other words a consultant is someone who helps others to change.
However, change isn’t such an easy target to achieve. Research shows that the
vast majority of change programmes fail. On a daily basis we hear about projects that are
delayed, cancelled, over budget or boycotted by the end user. The problem is that we can
never force people to change - remember the backlash against Jamie Oliver’s healthy
school meals campaign where parents handed junk food to their children through school
fences. The key to successful change is to engage with the end user and help them want to
change.
The Seven Cs of Consulting offers a consistent and collaborative language that
helps both consultant and client deliver value through sustainable change. Based around
the author’s highly successful 7Cs model (Client, Clarify, Create, Change, Confirm,
Continue, Close) this approach is simple and accessible but firmly grounded in research
and real life experience.
The 7Cs approach opens up the complexity of sustainable change to the
consultant and client and helps them explore- and then avoid - the real issues that cause
change to fail within a more professional and trusting relationship.
Table of Contents
About the author
Seven Cs training programmes
About the reader
Acknowledgements
1 The human touch
2 The challenge of sticky change
3 The Seven Cs framework
4 Stage one: Client
5 Stage two: Clarify
6 Stage three: Create
7 Stage four: Change
8 Stage five: Confirm
9 Stage six: Continue
10 Stage seven: Close
11 Seven Cs for clients
Conclusion
Index
400 pages, Paperback