Consulting and Contracting

September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Class last night focused on Block’s chapters on contracting. BTW, Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting is one of our texts and I really like it. Very pragmatic – humorous at time. On a side note, I bought it from Audible.com (one of my favorite websites; I’ll have to write a post about it one day-let me [...]

Sep

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Internal vs External Consultants

September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

As I continue to read about the business of consulting another of my previous notions of consultants bites the dust. I have always through of the consultants (since we were assuming the role of expert) to be someone from outside the organization. How many times have I heard/told the old joke, A consultant is an [...]

Sep

21

Trying to add a WebWidget . . .

September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Oh Wow! Oh Boy! Oh AWESOME!
Can you tell I’m excited about this? I figured out how to add WebWidgets that aren’t the ones typically associated with Edublogs. This is VERY cool and has FAR REACHING consequences for blogging in a community of practice, I topic I’m quite interested in and fond of . . . [...]

Sep

20

What I’m Learning About Consulting

September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Clearly, my view of consulting prior to taking this course, was primarily the doctor-patient model whereby the consultant swooped in and because of his/her expertise, told the client what was wrong and how to fix it; end of story. In hindsight, however, I see that I have observed, and even participated in, examples of that [...]

Sep

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A crazy Monday

September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

So much to blog about – this was one CRAZY Monday. Two specialty classes at the academy – one was LE Spanish: Traffic Stops and Field Sobriety. Fortunately my instructors are awesome and very low maintenance. The other an amazing week-long class for detectives, prosecutors and cps workers on interviewing kids who have been sexually [...]

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Tonight’s class

September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is one of those before I forget things. First of all, I was late. I HATE being late. I was late getting out of the office because the links didn’t work on the email I sent to 600 police employees so I had to recall the message AND field at least some of the [...]

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7

Ugh . . . homework (and I even had two weeks to do it!)

September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

To (mis)quote the theme from Super Chicken, “I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.” Seriously, I knew that graduate school would include homework/reading. I seriously don’t know how you guys with a full time job AND a family take on two or three (or more) classes at once. My hat is off [...]