General Project Deliverable Guidelines
As a management consultant you make a living by providing management
advice to senior level managers with regard to management problems that
they are experiencing within their organization. Your role is to analyze
the situation and then apply your experience, general business
knowledge, and sound management principles and theories, to produce a
report or other deliverable on the subject for the senior manager.
Your recommendations are important, but equally important is your
justification for those recommendations. The justification must convince
the manager that your advice is worth the price he or she paid for it.
The manager should feel confident that you have arrived at the correct
conclusions and that your conclusions are well supported by good
judgment and competent authority in the subject. Your goal is to produce
results that will strengthen your reputation as a management consultant
and encourage the manager to hire you in the future for other projects.
Leadership Challenge: Selecting Team Members
The leader of your client organization has observed a lack of
flexibility and a slow decision-making process in many of the
departments. He believes that he is not serving his customers well, and
has decided to move to a team environment and to push many of the
decisions to the lowest possible levels. In other words, he wants to
create a team-based, empowered organization. Several of his best
managers are resisting the idea strongly. They not only feel that many
employees are not ready for the change, but they also believe that they
personally could never change from a "command and control" style to
allowing more participation (adapted from Nahavandi p. 54).
Your client has asked you to prepare a report in which you address the
following questions:
How should the leader deal with the situation?
What arguments can he use to persuade his managers?
What can he do to help his managers change their style?
What are the implications of his actions and decisions?
Use as many references as you can find, and remember to cite them using
APA style.
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Helping managers to change their working style
Leadership Challenge:
AS a leader of my client organization, I observed a lack of flexibility and a slow decision-making process in many of the departments. I believe that I ams not serving my customers well, and have decided to move to a team environment and to push many of the decisions to the lowest possible levels. In other words, I want to create a team-based, empowered organization.
Yet, several of my best managers are resisting the idea strongly. They not only feel that many employees are not ready for the change, but they also believe that they personally could never change from a "command and control" style to allowing more participation
I am trying to prepare a report in which I address the following questions base on challenge I have:
1. How should I deal with the situation?
2. What arguments can I use to persuade MY managers?
3. What can I do to help MY managers change their style?
4. What are the implications of MY actions and decisions?
Helping managers to change their working style
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