Consultation
Consultation
Consultation
1. Establish a Consulting
5. Develop a Plan
Relationship
4. Developing
2. Clarify the Problem
Ideas and 6. Specify the Plan
Situation
Strategies
2. PRESCRIPTIVE MODEL
In some cases, competent people who are motivated to solve a
problem directly may lack confidence in their own strategy or may
not have the skills needed to carry out a problem-solving plan.
3. COLLABORATION MODEL
The Consultant’s goal is to facilitate the consultee’s self-direction
and innate capacity to solve problems.
As a catalyst, the Consultant helps consultees to share
observations, concepts, and proven practices and examine
facilitating or debilitating forces in both the immediate and larger
environment.
Together, the consultant and the consultee can work for the revision
of the intervention to include overcoming the constraints or
limitations.
Consultation Models:
4. MEDIATION MODEL
It is the consultant who recognizes a persisting
problem, gathers, analyzes, and synthesizes existing
information; defines the problem; decides on the most
appropriate intervention; then calls together the
persons who have direct contact with the problem
and have the greatest potential to influence desired
change.
Qualities of the Consultant
Traits Required
The effective Consultant