MetaConsulting Academy Classes
We offer both a membership program as well as classes to help train and educate your team. Our classes — both in-person and virtual — are based on years of experience and the lack of information available to the typical consultant looking to educate themsevles.
MetaConsulting Essentials
MetaConsulting Academy - Consulting Essentials is a two-day course designed to give consultants, new and seasoned, a comprehensive and perhaps different look at the consulting process. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of consulting theory and practice via participation in short individual and group exercises and dialogue.
Project Management for Knowledge Workers
Project Management for Knowledge-based Projects is a two-day course. The course marries important concepts from standard project management and the needed but often overlooked differences creating the relationship outcomes of knowledge-based projects versus physical outputs of traditional project management.
Transforming to a MetaConsultant
Transforming to a MetaConsultant is a three-day course designed to help you make the transformation to a certified MetaConsultant. The intense experience delves into topics such as thinking in question, experiencing good listening, and creating invitations.
MetaConsulting Essentials
$2,500 per student
Project Management for Knowledge Workers
$2,500 per student
MetaConsulting Academy - Consulting Essentials is a two-day course designed to give consultants, new and seasoned, a comprehensive and perhaps different look at the consulting process. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of consulting theory and practice via participation in short individual and group exercises and dialogue.
This class is only available in person.
Outline
Welcome and introduction
How questions versus What matters (YES!)
Forgetting zero-sum thinking
The consulting process
Initiation
Discovery and dialogue
Feedback and decision to act
Engagement and implementation
Extend, recycle, terminate
Consulting Behaviors
Laws of thought
Consulting levels
Consulting goals
Consulting roles
Being authentic
Dealing with resistance
The axiom of the presenting problem
Consulting behaviors in detail
Consulting code of conduct
Consulting skills
Developing your statement of intention
Listening
Moving off the solution
Asking effective questions
Building trust
Conducting Effective Meetings
Presenting
Writing
Using social media and generative AI
Gathering data
Assimilating data
Dealing with customer conflict
Project Management for Knowledge-based Projects is a two-day course with a heavy dose of project management for knowledge-based projects. The course marries important concepts from standard project management and the needed but often overlooked differences creating the relationship outcomes of knowledge-based projects versus physical outputs of traditional project management.
This class is available both in person and online self-paced. Click underlined lessons for a sample.
Outline
Unlearning zero-sum thinking
Introduction to project management
What is a project?
Projects are not process
The project life cycle
Progressive elaboration
Project management processes
Initiating
Feasibility analysis
Cost-benefit analysis
Project charter
Planning
Laws of systems thinking
Emotional project life cycle
Triangle of truth
Scope
Resource
Quality
Activity
Communication
Risk
Execution
Issues list
Status meeting
Test scripts
Change requests
Monitor and control
Sign-offs
Checklists
Project success probability index
Change orders
Closing
Final sign-off
System commencement survey
After action review
Approach
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Value price
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Transforming to a MetaConsultant
$4,000 per student
Transforming to a MetaConsultant is a three-day course designed to help you make the transformation to a certified MetaConsultant. The intense experience delves into topics such as thinking in question, experiencing good listening, and creating invitations.