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Visual Consulting: Designing and Leading Change

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Product Description Visualization―in your own imagination, on the wall, and with media―supports any consultant who is learning to design and facilitate transformational change, leadership development, stakeholder involvement processes, and making sense of complex challenges. This book, from leaders in the field, shows you how. Building on Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting, it explains how to visually contract and scope work, gather data, provide feedback, plan interventions, implement, and support on-going sustainability in organizational and community settings. Unlike Block’s work, Visual Consulting addresses the challenging problems of guiding organizational and social change processes that involve multiple levels and types of stakeholders, with interests in both local and global environments. It demonstrates how visualization and design thinking can be used to get more creative and productive results that are “owned” by everyone. The practices described apply to organizational as well as diverse, cross-boundary consulting projects. In this book, you will. . . Learn powerful visual tools for all key stages of the consulting process, including marketing your services Understand the predictable challenges of change and how to successfully guide organizations and communities through them Learn how to collaborate with clients to get sustainable results Find tools for using visualization comprehensively, for both inner and outer work Successfully guide change in both organizations and communities The fourth installment in the Visual Facilitation series, this book teaches you how to activate the full range of visual tools, methods, and models to support stepping into successful, contemporary consulting relationships. From the Inside Flap Design for Change! Visual Consulting is an exciting integration of visual facilitation, group dialogue, and change work applied to private, public, and non-profit consulting. Gisela and David combine principles and practices from nearly 70 years of field experience in a framework, (called "Seven Challenges of Change"), that has been collaboratively developed within their global consulting network. Consultants who want to use powerful visual tools, and visual practitioners who are moving into consulting, will both find a trove of practical tools and methods. Visual Consulting will help you... Understand the predictable challenges of designing and leading change Learn a suite of visual change models Learn to support all stages of the consulting process with powerful visual tools Learn about both the human and technical aspects of change Understand the fundamental patterns of change See ideas fleshed out with detailed case studies Meet a spectrum of successful visual consultants The fourth installment in the Visual Facilitation series, this book teaches you how to activate a full range of visual tools, methods, and models to support stepping into successful, contemporary consulting relationships. "How can diverse perspectives be in genuine dialogue and the patterns that drive change be made visible? How can consultants stimulate and harvest the collective intelligence of a group? This exquisitely designed book conveys with practicality and clarity how leaders can use the powers of imagination and collaboration in service of engaging complex challenges." —Aftab Omer, President, Meridian University "David & Gisela have discovered the ultimate treasure chest: how to use pictures to help other people solve their problems. Whether you consult, market, teach, sell, or lead, you will find their lessons life changing. . . both for you and for your clients." —Dan Roam, bestselling author of DRAW TO WIN "With great clarity and impact, Visual Consulting deepens our way of thinking about our work as leaders of change. We gain so much from this book: not only a palette of practices, but also solid frameworks to inspire and lead organizational and culture transformation. In our time of great change, this book i