Performance consulting
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Performance consulting is a subdiscipline of consulting that focuses on teaching people to be more effective in the workplace or in their personal lives. Its goals can be summarized in the slogan "work smarter, not harder".
[edit] Types of Performance Consulting
Performance consulting can be divided into three sub-specialties:
- organizational development specialists help organizations improve the effectiveness of their staff by changing the psychodynamics of the organization.
- professional development specialists help organizations improve the effectiveness of their staff by providing technical and professional training.
- personal coaches help individuals be more effective in the personal or workplace lives. The profession draws its inspiration from sports coaching, psychotherapy, philosophical traditions, and religous traditions.
[edit] Related Consulting specialties
When performance consulting is used to improve the quality of an organization's management team or to nurture the development of up and coming leaders, it becomes a specialized form of management consulting. Often an integrated approach is used - a combination of personal coaching, professional training, and team building. The sub-specialty of organizational development devoted to nuturing leaders is called leadership development.
