The Art of Consultation

Author: Sarah Kos
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: How can you effectively provide advice to clients? This book offers some basic guidance on this topic. It is aimed at all professionals—in fact, anyone who wants to help others through advice. The act of giving advice is a fundamental form of interpersonal communication. If guided by certain principles, both parties in the consulting process (the advisor and the client) can achieve better results in communication. This book provides basic guidance on how to effectively give advice to clients. The act of giving advice is a fundamental form of interpersonal communication. With certain principles guiding the process, both the advisor and the client can achieve better outcomes in communication. The purpose of this book is to summarize these principles and analyze their practical application. This book is a summary of my teaching experience over the past thirty-plus years in various fields. My students have ranged from judges and lawyers to business executives, diplomats, government ministers, economic policy makers, corporate consultants, and professional consultants—quite a diverse group.