Exercise a Consulting Role and enhance your impact

As a professional working in a company, it is sometimes difficult to know how to position yourself within the organization to achieve the desired impact in terms of results. How to work with colleagues and establish a partnership based on a relationship of trust and collaboration? How to structure your interventions?

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Duration: 2 days
Preferential price: $830

Course outline

The activity is recognized by CHRP.

Pre-approval number: 5969

Langues d'enseignement	Cette formation est offerte en français ou en anglais.
Audience	Consultants, advisors and professionals from all fields: Finance, Communication, IT, Project Management, HR, etc.
Objectives	Intervene with a clear vision and understanding of your advisory role and purpose. Establish and maintain quality partnerships of collaboration with internal/external clients. Utilize a proven and structured process to meet your clients’ needs. Adopt an intervention style that develops your clients’ autonomy and sense of responsibility. Use simple, practical tools and techniques to intervene with impact and credibility. Build an action plan to promote overall accountability.
Contenu	The Advisory Role: Positioning and Definition The main roles played by organizational stakeholders The definition and purpose of the advisory role The three areas of expertise required to perform the advisory role Modes of intervention Clarity and understanding of my role within my organization The Advisory Role Prerequisites for performing the advisory role My clients and my product and service offering The four key steps of the process, the objectives pursued, and the related challenges The importance of knowing my personal dynamics and their impact on how I perform my role Communication and influence Change management Ethics and professionalism Useful Tools for Performing the Advisory Role Mandate clarification questionnaire Mandate statement Action plan Data collection tools Reference models Co-development The 3 Cs rule The trust triangle The commitment triangle

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Surround yourself with the best

Michel Drolet

Executive VP and Strategic Management Advisor

Backed by solid experience in industry, Michel is what you would call a high-level strategic consultant.

Vanessa Deschênes

Trainer and Leadership Consultant

Coach, facilitator, speaker, and trainer, Vanessa is recognized as a change agent and a human, caring, and inspiring leader who is not afraid to challenge the status quo. Passionate about people, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and somatic approaches, she supports leaders and organizations in building high, sustainable performance that safeguards both results and the people who drive them. A trained lawyer with an MBA, Vanessa has had the privilege of appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada and being listed in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Lexpert Directory. She is also a recipient of the ZSA Tomorrow’s Leader Award for up-and-coming legal advisors. With over 15 years of experience in consulting and management, Vanessa has held prominent positions, including Chief Privacy Officer at a major Canadian financial institution and partner in a law firm. From the start of her career, she has designed and delivered trainings and conferences, and as a speaker and trainer, she brings more than 15 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Vanessa is highly regarded for her ability to demystify complex subjects and make them practical and accessible. An entrepreneur and certified coach in leadership and sustainable performance, Vanessa also holds certifications as a meditation teacher, applied neuroscience practitioner, Ericksonian hypnosis practitioner, and in various other somatic practices. She has completed Kaos Pilot Level 2 (Master Archer – art & craft of designing & facilitating learning spaces) and is a certified AtmanCo professional.

Kathleen Sears

Trainer and Certified Coach

A trainer, coach, and senior consultant for over 20 years, Kathleen Sears has solid experience in the implementation and delivery of training programs and as a training and organizational development coach. As a bilingual trainer at AFI Expertise, she has trained several thousand people primarily in management skills development, leadership, communication, and customer service.

Florence Jacob

Trainer

As a holder of a double bachelor's and master's degree in management from HEC Montréal, Florence has accumulated nearly 10 years of experience as a consultant and specialist in organizational development. Her career in parapublic, public and private organizations has allowed her to perfect her expertise in coaching and leader development. Promoting knowledge sharing and managerial skills transferring is at the heart of her approaches as a consultant. Florence is known as a committed partner. Her support type is dynamic, structured and oriented towards an opened and transparent communication.

Claude Fortin

Trainer and Strategic Advisor

Holder of a master's degree in public administration, Claude worked for 30 years in the Quebec health and social services network. As a strategic advisor, his renowned approach to managing issues that are related to complex organizations and challenges that these businesses are facing is contextualized and modern. He supports organizations in achieving their business objectives and advices companies on the strategy to adopt according to the desired organizational evolution.