Benedictine University
Ph.D. Program in Organization Development

April 28-30, 2000

Instructor:
James D. Ludema, Benedictine University

Visiting Distinguished Scholar:
Ronald E. Purser, University of San Francisco

Merrelyn Emery and Ron Purser, The Search Conference, Jossey-Bass, 1996.

Readings from Bob Golembiewski’s Handbook of Organizational Consultation.

• Golembiewski, "Cueing the Reader to Six Orientations...," pp. 1-26.
• Bartunek et al, "Managers and Project Leaders...," pp. 27-36.
• Lippitt, "Models of Organizational Change," pp. 501-508.
• Murrell, "Process consulting..." & "Process Consulting Guidelines...," pp. 579-588.
• Nadler, "Techniques for the Management of Organizational Change," pp. 589-598.
• Schein, "Models of Consultation...," pp. 653-662.
• Sherwood, "Essential Differences...," pp. 687-692.

1. Do the readings.
2. Individually, answer the following three questions:

• Think of the very best consultant you’ve ever known. What made him or her great (style, techniques, strategies, approach, knowledge base, personal characteristics, approach to relationships, power, commitments, etc.)?
• Consider the very best consulting project you have ever been a part of (it could be one that you led, participated in, contracted, or observed), what made it great? Tell the story. What was the nature of the project, who was involved, what did you do, what did others do, what approach was used, what steps were taken, what was its impact, what where the keys to its success?
• Finally, how do your peak consulting experiences agree with and go beyond the readings?

3. Share you responses to these questions with the other members of your learning group and prepare a creative and informative presentation (15 minutes each max.) to be given to the class on Sunday morning, April 30.