Communication skills: Consulting

Hello!

As one of the efforts of IPADE to improve our abilities, we are participating in a Communication Skills seminary.

These seminaries are divided mainly in two groups: consulting in one side and finance and multinationals in the other side.

We think that these seminaries will help us to improve ourselves in many tasks like plan and give oral presentations, understand the way that people usually communicate, specially when we realize that the elements of a good engagement include the organization, strategy, resources, people skills and of course, the communication part.

The consulting seminary which it’s imparted by Dr. Greg Patton from Marshall School of Business, will include a real consulting project with a company, where we are going to realize a diagnosis, SWOT analysis, detect all the opportunities areas and make an implementation plan for all of them.

Here are some pictures of the first session:

For this time, the session was not on IPADE's installations, but in one of the Camino Real hotel's meeting rooms

Then, we went on teams of 4 to determine and priorize the best and worst traits a consultor must (or must not!) have

Then, Greg presented us what the experts had to say about it, and we did a mock consult using a USC case

After the session, we went for a meal and said "see you in the next session" to Greg  (right after the Chargers lost... too bad for poor Greg, who was rooting for them)

Next up on this seminar: find a company and formalize the consulting projects!