The Practice of Professional Consulting



Mobilizing Stage Guidelines

• Teamwork is not optional. Business organizations today operate on the basis of teamwork, cross-functional projects, multilevel task forces, and various committees. In addition, systems (contextual) thinking tells us that in business organizations (that is, functions, roles, management, operations, and administrative procedures) everything is connected to everything else. No one works in isolation. Managers expect suppliers to work with them as a team and want customers to be long-term partners. This means that to be successful, all consultants must learn to be role models for excellent teamwork, demonstrating to clients the skills and competencies of joining, collaborating, and building ...