Consultation Methods
General
- Graduate
- 11 learners; teams of 4
- 100 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 1/1 project matches
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Any
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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January 18, 2021Project Scope Meeting
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March 19, 2021Data Collection and Data Analysis
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April 23, 2021Feedback Session
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May 2, 2021Experience end
Timeline
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February 15, 2021Experience start
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January 18, 2021Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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March 19, 2021Data Collection and Data Analysis
Students will collect data via surveys, observations, focus groups, etc. and identify emerging themes from the data collected
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April 23, 2021Feedback Session
Meeting between students and company to share findings, make sense of them and co-create recommendations
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May 2, 2021Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Masters students working in small groups of 3-5, will spend 100 hours, from mid-January to mid-March, working with your organization to help you overcome the challenges you are facing and achieve the goals that you are struggling to reach.
- Learner skills
- Organizational development, Business consulting, Business strategy, Communication, Data analysis
- Deliverables
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- Scoping and problem definition
- Data gathering: e.g. interviewing, focus groups, survey
- Collaborative sense making workshops
- Co-creating recommendations
Project Examples
This course is based on a process consultation model where the students work to form a helping, collaborative relationship with the client. They are trained in research methods, group dynamics, organization development and related approaches. The specifics of the projects are designed in collaboration with you, the client, and they are expected to engage in data gathering and processing, but should also design a feedback session for the client system. Once the data has been analyzed and recommendations uncovered, the project is normally concluded.
Project examples include, but are not limited to:
- Analyzing the impact of an organization's culture on its efficacy and efficiency
- Improving communication between different departments
- Supporting a new project or team working together for the first time
- Developing new norms
- Addressing diversity inclusion and equity issues
- Adapting to work in the virtual world
- Other relational issues
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Provide time to students to gather data (depending on the project it could be a mix of survey, focus group, workshops, etc.)
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address students' questions.
Sign a scope of work agreement defining the work the student is expected to do and the deliverables
Be available for a quick phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.