The Consultant School
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Consultant School is a place for practicing and aspiring organizational consultants to learn the art and practice of successful consulting. Ray Rood, the founder of the Genysys Group, has over 45 years of consulting experience. He is sharing his methods, approaches, and secrets for the next generation of consultants to learn from.
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16: Introducing Serious Play
June 04, 2019 07:00 - 23 minutes - 22.1 MBAre you familiar with the concept of serious play? Today, we're shifting gears and moving into another element of transformation. We will be introducing the idea of serious play, which has become a hallmark of Ray's approach to his work. Listen in today, to find out how serious play relates to transformation. There's a lot of depth to the characteristics and key principles of the story of serious play. In today's episode, we unpack this concept and we look at the way that it relates to tra...
15: Using Organizational Health Assessments
May 07, 2019 04:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBWould you like to know why organizations need to use assessments? Lately, Ray and Amy have been talking about the new products that the Genysys Group is releasing and they recently did an episode about the Organizational Health Assessment. There is still one more assessment that they are preparing to launch, called The Change Readiness Assessment. Listen in to find out more about it. In today's episode, Ray and Amy will explain what the Change Readiness Assessment is. They will also talk a...
14: The Art of Facilitation, Part 2
April 23, 2019 07:00 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBWelcome to another episode of How to Transform. Today our guide Ray Rood talks about the art of facilitation and the key elements of being a successful facilitator. Your host, Amy Hoppock, and Ray discuss how to find your role within a group, sustaining engagement, utilizing awareness, and how to integrate appropriate challenge. To learn how you can balance support and challenge while implementing lucrative facilitating skills join Amy and Ray in this episode of How to Transform. Show Hig...
13: The Art of Facilitation
April 09, 2019 07:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBDid you know that facilitation is really important for organizational transformation? We've just completed an overview of the entire organizational transformation model, containing all the ingredients for organizational transformation that Ray and the Genysys group have identified over the years. The secret ingredient to organizational transformation is really how information is presented, or how it is facilitated. So simply knowing the information is not enough. In today's episode, Ray a...
12: Partnerships in Organizational Transformation
March 26, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBEstablishing solid and serviceable relationships is lucrative to the transformation process. Today’s conversation explores the basic components of creating partnerships and the fundamental elements of developing an operative team. Dr. Rood also shares the necessary steps to help individuals evaluate how to divide and dedicate their energy. Tune into this episode of How to Transform with your host, Amy Hoppock, and Dr. Rood as they discuss the important aspects of constructing fruitful partne...
11: Planning for Transformation
March 12, 2019 07:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBHow intentional do you want to be for creating your future? And are you aware that the more intentional you are, the more responsible you have to become? Today, we continue to move through the Organizational Transformation Model (OTM) that Ray has developed over many years of working with organizational and personal transformation. In today's episode, we will be discussing the element of planning. Ray will be giving us an overview of planning and he will talk to us about the connection be...
10: Channeling Energy
February 26, 2019 08:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBIt doesn’t have to be difficult to get out of bed every morning. Finding what energizes and excites you to reach your potential will have you motivated beyond belief. But how to achieve that is what we’re all searching for. Todays’ episode takes the mystery out of finding your energy by introducing methods to identify misalignment and how to fuel your motivation. Tune into this conversation between Amy Hoppock and Dr. Ray Rood as they discuss this aspect of the personal transformation model ...
09: Vision and How to Create Your Future Reality
February 12, 2019 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBWe're here again with Ray Rood, the architect of the Organizational Transformation Model that has been central to the work of Genysys and we have another conversation with him about organizational transformation and how to transform. Today's episode is all about Vision, and how to use it to create your future reality. Listen in to find out what Ray has to share about his process called Strategic Futuring, which requires using your imagination to create your future. "Do enough people in you...
08: Generative Leadership
January 22, 2019 08:00 - 22 minutes - 21.2 MBWe've been working through the Genysys Group Organizational Transformation Model and discussing the real elements that are vital for both organizational and personal transformation. Ray Rood is the architect of the Organizational Transformation Model that has been central to the work of Genysys. Listen in to find out what Ray has to share on the show today. In this episode, we are going to be dealing with Generative Leadership, which is the final element of transformation. The Generative L...
07: Transformational Leadership
January 08, 2019 08:00 - 20 minutes - 14.7 MBDid you know that Transformational Leadership is not an individual task? It's the task of a team, a community, or a committed group of people because it requires a conspiracy. Today, as we are working our way through the Genysys Organizational Transformation model that Ray has developed, we are going to be talking about Transformational Leadership. Transformational Leadership is difficult. It results in a deep form of change and in people thinking and behaving differently. Listen in today as...
06: The Golden Feather
December 25, 2018 08:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBDo you know what a catalytic leader is? Today we have a really special episode where Ray will be sharing the story of the Golden Feather, based on a Grimm brothers' fairytale, which relates to catalytic leaders. This is a story that Ray has told many times before, and he often uses it as a metaphor for the work he does. Listen in to find out more. In a recent episode, we discussed catalytic leaders and explained what catalytic leadership is and how it works. So it really made sense to shar...
05: Catalytic Leadership
December 11, 2018 08:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBLeadership is a key element when it comes to transformation. Ray is the architect of the Organizational Transformation Model that has been central to the work of Genysys. On the show today we are going to start looking at this model, which is key to transformation within any organization. Listen in to find out more. There are three different kinds of leaders that Ray identifies in the organizational transformation model. Today we are going to be looking at the first type; the catalytic l...
04: Introducing the Organizational Transformation Model
November 27, 2018 23:04 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode we talk about how Ray's model for organizational transformation has evolved over time. Ray sees himself as an explorer. This show is his “report back” about what he has learned about organizational transformation on the frontiers. Listen in today to find out about the history of how Ray went about discovering the elements and key aspects of the nature of the process of transformational change. Today, on the show, Ray shares some teachings and some stories from the many yea...
03: Four Approaches to the Future
November 26, 2018 08:00 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBHow do you have an active influence over your future? Did you know that you really can play a part in creating the kind of future for yourself that you could previously only imagine? Towards the end of last week's episode, Ray began talking about his concept of the Four Approaches to the Future, as it relates to transformation- both for individuals and for organizations. On this episode we focus on what we call the Four Approaches to the Future. This is a concept that Ray has used for ...
02: Strategic Futuring
November 25, 2018 08:00 - 15 minutes - 7.37 MBWelcome to the show where we discuss how to transform and share strategies for organizational and personal transformation! In our this conversation, we spoke about the idea of choosing a life for yourself and owning your own future. Our observation is that people often don't do that. Perhaps the reason for that is that they just don't know how. So today we will be talking about a process that Ray has developed over decades, called Strategic Futuring. Listen in to find out how this helpful ...
01: Introduction
November 24, 2018 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBJoin How to Transform co-hosts Amy Hoppock and Ray Rood to learn why they decided to start a podcast and what they hope to accomplish from the shows. As proponents of questioning and curiosity in learning, any transformation that takes place always starts here. Ray realized early on that he learns through asking questions. He used to require his students come to class armed with questions. Organizational transformation models utilized by The Genysys Group are so effective for teams, but th...