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Consultative Roles | PLOT | Expertise Statements | Questioning and Listening | Planning Client Interactions | Work Agreements | Solutions and Recommendations | Handling Objections

Consultative Roles
Use this tool to help you identify the role(s) you should emphasize in upcoming interactions with your clients, and to assess your strengths and areas for improvement in applying those roles to your recent client interactions.
Concept Review
Situation Solver
Assessing Consultative Performance


PLOT
Use this tool to help you profile your client in order to understand their motivation --- what hooks them --- and develop strategies for interacting with and appropriately influencing them.

Concept Review
Profile Your Client Using PLOT-ter
Develop a Client Interaction Strategy

Templates:

PLOT Profile Worksheet


Expertise Statements
Use this tool when you want to apply your expertise as a way to influence others, introduce yourself, or sell your ideas.

Concept Review
Identifying Experience in Consultative Roles
Expertise Statement Tips
Lay the Groundwork
Developting an Effective Expertise Statement


Questioning and Listening
Use this tool when you are having difficulty with questioning and listening or want a refresher on questioning and listening skills.

Concept Review
Peeling the Onion
The Questions You Ask
Skill Sharpener - Questioning Strategies for Client Situations
Listening
Exploring Generalizations
Skill Sharpener - Exploring Generalizations While Peeling the Onion


Planning Client Interactions
Use this tool to prepare for important client interactions.

Concept Review
Tool for Planning a Client Interaction


Work Agreements
Use this tool when you need to prepare a work agreement for a new project or revise the work agreement for an existing team.

Concept Review
Know When and Why You Need a Written Work Agreement
Plan for the Work Agreement
Conduct the Work Agreement Discussion
Document and Communicate the Work Agreement

Templates:

Client Profile Worksheet
Work Agreement Planning Worksheet
Work Agreement Meeting Agenda Template
Work Agreement Worksheet


Solutions and Recommendations
Use this tool to develop solutions and recommendations, present them to your client(s), and gain agreement for moving forward.

Concept Review
Define Solutions and Prepare for Making Recommendations
Discuss Insights and Make Recommendations
Gain Agreement for Next Steps

Templates:

Developing Recommendations Worksheet
Selling Recommendations Worksheet
Selling Recommendations Agenda Template


Handling Objections
Use this tool when you are encountering objections to your ideas or recommendations, or when you are preparing to present recommendations and anticipate objections.

Concept Review
Preventing Objections
Skill Sharpeners


Coach Toolkit

Coaching for Analyzing Situations | Coaching Client Interactions | Conducting MCI Role Plays

Coaching for Analyzing Situations
Use this tool when someone comes to you for advice or coaching.

Concept Review
Coaching Guidelines: Prepare to Coach
Coaching Guidelines: Analyze the Situation
Coaching Guidelines: Develop Solutions


Coaching Client Interactions
Use this tool when you are observing a consultant in an interaction or recreating that interaction with him.

Concept Review
Review the MCI Process
Observe and Document Your Client
Coach and Move Forward
Coaching Observation Tool


Conducting MCI Role Plays
Use this tool for creating business-relevant scenarios and conducting MCI role plays with groups.

Concept Review
Create Your Scenario(s)
Prepare for the Role Play Session
Facilitate the Role Play


Developing Coaching Plans
Use when you are developing a plan for coaching someone.

Concept Review

Templates:

Coaching Plan Template
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