[Whitepaper] Consulting Workshop Series 101: Tools to Generating Effective and Innovative Ideas

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Consulting Workshop Series 101: Tools to Generating
Effective and Innovative Ideas
Contributed by Joseph Robinson on July 25, 2019 in Organization, Change, & HR, Strategy, Marketing, & Sales
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Whether the focus is a strategy, operations, tax, finance, HR, or IT, management consulting firms have become a staple of corporate life. From
defining strategic directions to simply serving as an additional pair of hands for outsourced work, management consultants have become
inextricably linked to the success of most large organizations.
However, festering underneath the myriad consulting offerings, methodologies, and tools, management consulting firms are exposed to
vulnerabilities that are unraveling the consulting business model. It is the same kind of dramatic disruption that is affecting other companies
and other industries.

An industry becomes susceptible to disruption when it becomes entrenched in its
longstanding solutions and financial structures. Management consulting firms are not
immune to the dynamics of disruption. In an industry where the basis of competition
becomes efficiency versus innovation and new solutions, disruption is just around the
horizon. While many consultants and consulting firms have established practices advising
clients on strategies to leverage disruptive trends and technologies, only a few apply these to
themselves.
In today’s business environment, management consulting firms must be ready to address
client challenges and needs that will transform their business by 10 or 100 times. Tools and
methods must be scaled up to ensure applicability to the widest possible audience globally.
The Consulting Workshop Series 101 provides a good understanding of the 10 methods of conducting Workshops that are custom designed to
fit specific workshop objectives. Different methods are developed for the purpose of providing organizations the most appropriate tool
necessary to support organizations to achieve their strategic goals and targets.
The Importance of Mastering Consulting Workshops
Consulting Workshops are tools used to maximize performance, align strategies, and actualize potentials of organizations. Management
consulting firms leverage workshops as an effective way to rapidly reach decisions within client organizations.
Workshops usually last 1 to 5 days. They are typically used to gather stakeholders who normally don’t cross paths–e.g. stakeholders from
different departments, different business units, and/or different regions. Within the workshop, the consulting firm plays the role of both
facilitator and external subject matter expert.
The 10 Primary Workshop Methods
The 10 Primary Workshop Methods promote the conduct of a consulting workshop that is strategic and systematic to achieve its purpose and
objectives.

1. Charrette. The primary objective of Charrette is to generate consensus among diverse groups of people and form an action plan.
2. Citizens Jury. The Citizens Jury method leads participants to come up with a decision that is representative of average citizens who has
been well informed on the issue.
3. Consensus Conference. Its primary objective is to come up with a consensus and a decision on a controversial topic.
4. Delphi. Delphi is a method that exposes all opinions and options regarding a complex issue.
5. Expert Panel. The Expert Panel synthesizes a variety of inputs on a specialized topic and produces recommendations.
6. Focus Group. The primary aim of the Focus Group is to expose different group opinions on an issue and why these are held.
7. PAME. PAME is Participatory Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation. PAME is basically used for evaluating and learning.
8. Planning Cells. In Planning Cells, participants are made to learn about and choose between multiple options regarding an urgent and
important action. In the end, an action plan is developed.
9. Scenarios. Scenarios are used for planning and preparing for an uncertain future. This is basically vision-building.
10. World Café. World Café is a consulting workshop method that is used for generating and sharing ideas.
Each method of conducting workshop differs in terms of objective, topics, participants, and time. Understanding the differences and purpose
of the Consulting Workshop Series Methods will allow organizations to conduct the workshop with the greatest impact where one is
desperately needed.
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