1.3How are consultants used? Ten principal ways

In pursuing the generic purposes outlined in the previous section, consultants can intervene in many different ways. Both clients and consultants can choose among so many alternatives that trying to give an exhaustive and complete picture of these alternatives would be an impossible task. However, most of the consulting assistance to management will be given in one or more of the following ten ways:

●providing information;

●providing specialist resources;

●establishing business contacts and linkages;

●providing expert opinion;

●doing diagnostic work;

●developing action proposals;

●developing systems and methods;

●planning and managing organizational changes;

●training and developing management and staff;

●counselling and coaching.