Marketing organization development and consulting service helped me to understand specialized competencies essential to marketing OD both internally and externally. I’ve ample experience in marketing and selling products directly or indirectly, but this course provided me an opportunity to learn about marketing services with the ability to plan and design. I still see many challenges, […]
Sharing my experience of Persistence
New experiences out of my comfort zone always attract me, and I enjoy meeting new people. Saying that, I had situations where I was overwhelmed by the welcomeness had a great experience. In some cases, I was ignored, undervalued, and those moments created an opportunity to learn and grow. I’ve enjoyed the good moments and […]
Is content marketing worth it? Is it “giving away the milk”, or is it an investment?
Content marketing is an investment, as through the content, we can show our expertise, and as our lesson mentioned, it’s giving a taste of our product without giving away the whole thing. I agree with the concept; it’s difficult to know how our service will benefit the organization without providing tools, approaches, and ideologies. Giving […]
Perceptions Blog Post
There are many brands I’ve been patronizing because of their excellent quality or uniqueness. I often consider word of mouth and value the comments from people around me. I started with Apple, which I mostly disliked twelve years back because of their high price for standard features. After using iPhone for a couple of months, […]
WF ED 881 Six Pitfalls
I’ve worked in retail management for few years, and one mistake I often see is to building strategy from the top down. In most cases, the store plans, business strategies, product promotion, almost everything is designed at headquarter, miles away from the actual store location. Even though they have many years of data to understand […]
Introduction Blog Post
Welcome to my blog; I am Farhan Sadique, a third-year Ph.D. student in Workforce Education and Development. I’ve done some great courses and thoroughly enjoyed the learning opportunities. I want to read and take notes as I progress through this class because I am losing much important information in the long term, which can be […]
Sell helping relationship
Schein (1999) mentioned consulting firms sell information, ideas, and recommendations, but it’s tough to decide whether they sell help. The process consultant sells the helping relationship, where the consultant provides help to identify and own the problem by clients. Building a relationship comes first, based on providing help. The consultant must engage in a process […]
Groupthink and critical thinking
Groupthink is a threat to critical thinking, where members of a group make decisions under presumed pressure to come with a collaborative result. Groupthink focuses on the end output of the team, instead of individual credibility for making decisions (Kenny, 2016). Thinking as a group is productive when everyone has an opportunity to raise points […]
“Go with the flow”- my response and outcome
Developing and maintaining the relationship is important in process consultation. Being clear in the exploratory meeting with the expectations and possibilities is one of the major concerns in process consultation, as the philosophy of PC is to jointly own the interventions, and not process consultation’s expertise on the subject matter, rather the problem-solving process that […]
Suspension: Anger and disappointment
Suspension is the process of noticing own reaction to hostility through thoughts, emotions, body movement (Bohm, 1992). It can be caused by anger, disappointment, disbelieve, or anything that might cause by disagreement and can result in completely blowing up the dialogue. It’s important to stay open, and take other’s opinion first to encourage dialogue instead […]
