Advanced Consultative Partnering Training: Build Trusted Advisors

“The Advanced Consultative Partnering workshop was crucial in helping our HR business partners work more strategically with their internal clients and stakeholders.

The consulting skills and techniques greatly improved their ability to gain understand the situation, credibility, sell recommendations, and apply a strategic consulting process to get better results.”
SVP Human Resources | Fortune 1000 Technology Company

The Advanced Consultative Partnering is for senior professionals and managers. It presents a more advanced view of Consultative Partnering™ skills while focusing participants on leading projects, managing challenging interactions, and effectively communicating value propositions.

Participants improve their ability to influence at C-level, deliver value-based recommendations, and model consulting behavior to further build and reinforce Consultative Partnering™ skills among their staff and peers.

Description
This highly experiential two- to three-day workshop equips leadership-level consultants and managers with the tools and skills they need to move the partnering dynamics of their organizations to a new level.

Participants develop skills to handle the most difficult and challenging client interactions that result in better relationships and partnership with their clients. They learn to use a systematic consulting process that provides detailed steps for consistently getting successful business results.

During the workshop, participants engage in dynamic discussions and job-specific application activities using customized cases and real-life examples, and receive feedback through self-assessments and coaching.

They focus on their team and individual situations during the workshop, spending over 75% of the course time on interactive and experiential activities.

Outcomes and Benefits
After completing Advanced Consultative Partnering, participants will be able to:

1. Build Strong Business Partnerships Among People and Teams

Define the role of the leader and senior consultant in the organization and their responsibilities in developing consultative partnership relationships.
Determine clients’ expectations for the consulting team, and identify and eliminate obstacles to meeting those expectations.
Understand other’s personality, style, and needs in interactions.
Develop interaction strategies that build trust and partnership.

Advanced Consultative Partnering Workshop That Drives Strategic Impact

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2. Leverage Expertise and Value While Managing Client Interactions

Make explicit in client interactions how the consulting teams’ expertise adds value.
Apply the Managing Client Interactions model and skills in difficult interactions where risk and emotions are high in order to meet goals and build trust and partnership.

3. Apply a Consultative Process to Consistently Produce Positive Results

Gain agreement with clients and teams about how you will work together, and establish clear understanding of the client’s business issues and needs that will affect outcomes.
Gain commitment by presenting ideas and recommendations in a way that influences and focuses on client benefits, and implement solutions that meet client business goals.

Target Audience
This advanced consulting skills workshop is targeted at senior consultants and managers across industries who interact at senior levels with internal and client organizations at all phases of large or complex initiatives.

They are often responsible for leading, managing, and coaching a team of more junior consultants.

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about consulting skills program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.

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CEO

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HR Manager

FAQs

Advanced consultative partnering training helps experienced professionals strengthen their ability to influence, advise, and collaborate with senior stakeholders on complex business challenges. It is designed for HR business partners, internal consultants, project leaders, functional experts, customer-facing professionals, and experienced managers who want to move beyond providing solutions to becoming trusted strategic advisors who drive measurable business outcomes.

Unlike traditional communication or consulting skills courses, advanced consultative partnering training emphasizes strategic business conversations, executive influence, organizational alignment, stakeholder management, and co-creating solutions that address business priorities. Participants learn how to navigate ambiguity, challenge assumptions constructively, and build long-term partnerships that create value for both the business and internal or external clients.

Organizations typically use advanced consultative partnering training to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase strategic influence, strengthen executive relationships, accelerate decision making, and deliver more business-focused recommendations. When professionals become trusted advisors rather than service providers, organizations often experience faster execution, stronger stakeholder alignment, higher client satisfaction, and greater organizational impact.

Yes. The most effective advanced consultative partnering programs are customized to your organization's strategy, business challenges, stakeholder dynamics, and real-world consulting scenarios. Participants work through relevant case studies, practice difficult conversations, receive coaching, and apply proven frameworks to current business initiatives so they can immediately transfer new skills back to the workplace.

Lasting behavior change requires more than a single training event. The strongest programs reinforce learning through practice, manager involvement, coaching, application assignments, measurement, and follow-up support that helps participants use advanced consultative partnering skills on real business challenges. This reinforcement increases confidence, strengthens adoption, and improves the likelihood of sustained performance improvement.