Introduction to Consulting Skills

Tuesday Evenings, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
April 27, May 4, May 11, May 18 and June 1
Nalanda Campus, Room 9104
6287 Arapahoe Ave 80303
Instructor: Karen Kralios MBA, CPBA, CPC
Tuition: $495

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Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the field of consulting with a focus on developing relationship-based or authentic, consulting skills. Emphasis is placed on three critical skill areas required of consultants: Managing Self, Managing Clients and Managing Your Practice. This five-week exploratory course is designed primarily for participants interested in making a career change to consulting and self-employment. Furthermore, it provides a foundation on the basic skills needed for a successful consulting relationship such as building trust, collaboration, effective listening, managing expectations and resistance.  Anyone seeking to improve their knowledge of self and their interactions with others in the workplace or business environment can benefit from this course as well.

A combination of lecturettes, group discussion, small group and assigned individual activities and personal reflection are used to meet the following course objectives:

• To help students identify their specific skills, knowledge and areas of expertise they will focus on in their consulting practice.

• For students to understand the roles of the consultant and how these differ from the role of employee.

• To introduce participants to the art, language and critical skills required of authentic consultants.

• To assist students in developing personal awareness of critical behaviors and strategies needed to obtain their desired consultant role and to successfully manage a consulting relationship.

• To provide students with strategies and readily adopted ideas for growing and developing their consulting practices.

Participants will leave the course with a clear direction for how to become the type of consultant clients prefer to work with, ideas for managing the challenges of consulting, and strategies for growing and maintaining a vibrant consulting practice.

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Instructor Biography

Karen Kralios is an organizational development consultant and transformational coach. She specializes in organization design and strategy, leadership development, organizational culture transformation and whole systems change management. Karen has more than eighteen years
of experience consulting for industry leaders Deloitte & Touche and Accenture and through her own consulting practice, Chrysalis Consulting, which she founded nine years ago. She is a certified coach and professional behavioral analyst and routinely works with individuals and organizations to help them achieve their highest potential.

Karen earned a Masters in Business Administration in organizational behavior and operations management from Boston University and holds a BA in psychology from Wellesley College. She is a member of the Organization Development Network and is a charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association. 

Questions? Please call 303-245-4800.

This is a noncredit class. The course cannot be taken for credit.