Consulting Skills Training - Consultative Partnering

“The Consulting Skills Training Workshop was crucial in helping our HR business partners work more strategically with their internal clients and stakeholders.

The 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 Consultative Partnering™ Series consists of three consulting skills workshops incorporating the latest research and real client experiences.

The foundation of each consulting skills course uses proven models and techniques that have been successful for more than 20 years. To ensure relevance, each consulting workshop is designed for specific populations within the organization to address variations in skill gaps, challenges, and activities at different positional levels.

The Essentials of Consultative Partnering™
This intensive two-day foundational workshop is designed for individual contributors and technical professionals who want to strengthen their consulting capabilities and increase their business impact. Participants gain the core Consultative Partnering™ frameworks, tools, and interpersonal skills needed to build credibility, navigate complex stakeholder relationships, and drive stronger results on critical projects and initiatives.

Through practical application and real-world scenarios, participants learn how to communicate more strategically, diagnose client needs more effectively, and apply a proven consulting process to become trusted business partners with both internal and external clients. The program equips professionals to move beyond task execution and contribute more strategically to organizational outcomes.

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Advanced Consultative Partnering™
Advanced Consultative Partnering™ is designed for senior professionals, managers, and experienced business partners who must influence complex decisions, lead high-stakes initiatives, and strengthen strategic relationships across the organization. This immersive two- to three-day workshop builds on foundational consulting skills and provides a more sophisticated approach to consultative partnering in dynamic business environments.

Participants learn how to navigate challenging stakeholder interactions, lead critical cross-functional projects, and communicate compelling value propositions that resonate with executive audiences. The program emphasizes advanced influencing strategies, executive-level communication, and the ability to frame recommendations in terms of measurable business impact, risk mitigation, and organizational priorities.

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Consulting Skills Training: Build Strategic Influence, Trusted Partnerships, and Business Impact

Consultative Partnering for Leaders™
Consultative Partnering for Leaders™ is an intensive two- to three-day facilitated working session designed for leaders responsible for driving meaningful organizational change. Whether the goal is to build a more consultative culture, increase customer focus, build high performing teams, or accelerate business transformation, this program helps leadership teams align around the behaviors and strategies required to lead change effectively.

The program provides a focused executive-level version of the Consultative Partnering™ methodology to encourage visible, top-down modeling of the consulting behaviors essential for organizations navigating growth, complexity, and transformation. Leaders learn how to foster stronger collaboration, improve decision-making, and reinforce accountability while creating the conditions for sustained organizational performance.

Through a highly interactive and customized process, leadership teams work together to clarify the vision for change, assess organizational readiness, identify barriers to adoption, and strengthen communication strategies that build alignment and commitment. Participants also define the critical leadership actions, governance practices, and organizational development priorities necessary to sustain momentum and achieve strategic business goals.

Our senior consultants partner closely with leadership teams to tailor the experience, content, and agenda to the organization’s unique strategic objectives, cultural dynamics, and developmental priorities — ensuring immediate relevance and practical application.

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Target Audience
The Essentials of Consultative Partnering series is targeted at professionals across all industries that interact with internal and/or external clients such as Professional Services Consultants, Engineering, IT, Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Learning & Development, and Operations.

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

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LSA’s approach has certainly brought value to Knight Ridder Digital. They were laser focused on our goal and determined to meet all of our Leadership development program needs. Their flexibility and commitment were keys in making our program successful.

Dipik Rai
Director of Marketing

We greatly value our relationship with LSA Global.

They focused on understanding our unique culture and helping us to move our strategic priorities forward.

LSA continues to deliver top quality executive coaching, consulting, and leadership development solutions that are highly customized for our unique situation.

I highly recommend LSA Global to anyone looking to greatly improve their leadership, management, and project capabilities.

Bonnie S. Olson
Vice President of Human Resources

LSA is an excellent sales and leadership outsource partner! They listen to our needs, are responsive, and work at a pace that keeps up with our rapid speed.

We have found LSA to bring strategic, innovative, and practical solutions to meet our business priorities by partnering effectively with our key staff. I consider them to be an important external extension of our team.

Thank you!

Wendy Chinn
Sr. Director, Global Sales Enablement

LSA worked with our Executive Leadership Team to help create strategic clarity and alignment as we look to increase our growth rate and unlock innovation. They masterfully handled very complex, challenging, and high stakes leaders, decisions, and cultural nuances to help us identify what matters most and move toward one unified direction.

Their practical, straightforward, and client-centric approach to strategy was refreshing. I highly recommend them to any executive team looking to get aligned to create even higher performance. They are lights out awesome!

Patrick Resk
Chief Financial Officer, Partner

The customized leadership styles and coaching program was the best training that I have ever attended. The facilitators were phenomenal. They have a wealth of experience and knowledge coupled with compassionate and caring styles. I’d highly recommend this leadership training program to any manager, director, or executive looking for a life changing leadership program.

Shoaleh Ghaffari
Director, HR

The customized leadership program was very practical and achieved our goals. LSA adapted very well to our group and the situation and helped us build trust and awareness of successful leadership styles. We look forward to the next steps.

Erik Okholm
Director of Software Development

We partnered with LSA Global to help us invest in our people. LSA custom designed an impactful management curriculum to help upskill our key managers and leaders.

We consider LSA to be our trusted learning and development partner and a valued extension of our team as we rapidly scale. Thank you LSA!

Lisa Bruun
SVP Human Resources

Your team was amazing. Facilitative Leadership was one of the best leadership and change workshops my team has ever attended. Thank you!

Diane White
Executive Director, Head of Product Development

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a action leadership and management development curriculum to help drive performance across the company.

They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing an approach that fits our unique culture, and delivering first class solutions. Thank you!

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

As a high growth agency with cutting edge talent, we hired LSA Global to help clarify our strategy and work with our executive leadership team to help implement strategic changes in a way that made sense for our unique culture.

The work was so successful that we also hired them to coach our key leaders. LSA has been instrumental in helping us transition to a new leadership team and triple revenue. In this age of useless consultants, I highly recommend their practical and business-oriented approach to strategy, culture, and talent.

David Bentley
General Manager

LSA helped us with leadership development by designing a solution to match our unique needs and culture.

It was a huge success. I would highly recommend LSA to help take leaders and managers to the next level.

Karen King, SPHR
Manager, Human Resources

Over the years, both at 3Com and now at Redback, I’ve found LSA Global to be a valuable partner. The recent management programs that they delivered for Redback’s executive and management teams was the right solution, of the highest of quality, and customized to fit our unique business and culture. I would highly recommend LSA to any company looking for top quality solutions.

Gina Fulton
Vice President of Human Resources

I continue to be impressed by the level of leadership development training and management expertise and quality of advice and facilitation that LSA has to offer.

What a smart and client-centric group of great people who really know how to help assess and develop high performing leaders.

Tracy Esposito
Director

It was a challenge to find a consultant with an approach to performance improvement that fit our unique performance culture and style. We were pleasantly surprised to discover LSA’s depth of expertise in the fields of motivation, developmental coaching, performance management, and measurement.

LSA seamlessly integrated those components without our folks feeling like the intervention was forced. They understood what we were trying to accomplish, helped us clarify our objectives, and created a solid, refreshing approach that quickly got us moving and engaged at all levels across the organization.

Overall, I couldn’t be happier that we found a true strategy and implementation partner in LSA.

Doug Hansen
President and Director

At a time of change in our marketplace, LSA Global did an exceptional job helping our executive team create strategic clarity by helping us to define, clarify, and prioritize our corporate vision, mission, values, differentiation, target clients, strategic priorities, success metrics and key roles.

They beautifully navigated a very difficult and fuzzy situation, respectfully cleared out all of the cultural elephants, and shared impactful insights and leadership development theories along the way. They have transformed our business.

Laurie Sewell
President & CEO

FAQs

The Consultative Partnering™ Series is a research-based consulting skills training program designed to help professionals become more strategic, influential, customer-centric, and results-oriented. The series includes foundational, advanced, and leadership-level workshops tailored for individual contributors, managers, senior leaders, HR business partners, finance professionals, technical experts, and cross-functional teams who work closely with internal or external stakeholders.

Participants strengthen practical consulting and partnering capabilities such as stakeholder management, strategic communication, executive influence, needs diagnosis, problem solving, project leadership, and value-based recommendation skills. The workshops emphasize real-world application through customized case studies, role plays, coaching, experiential learning, and interactive exercises focused on measurable business outcomes.

Each workshop is highly customized to the organization’s specific business goals, culture, industry challenges, and participant roles. LSA Global customizes examples, scenarios, simulations, and application exercises to ensure the content is directly relevant to the participants’ day-to-day business realities and strategic priorities.

Organizations typically use the program to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase strategic influence, strengthen client and stakeholder relationships, accelerate decision making, and elevate overall effectiveness. The consulting skills framework is designed to help professionals move beyond transactional support roles and contribute more directly to organizational performance, growth, and transformation initiatives.

Yes. The Consultative Partnering™ workshops can be delivered in-person, virtually, or in hybrid formats for regional and global teams. Programs are designed to support distributed organizations and can be adapted for multicultural, remote, and cross-functional environments to ensure consistent learning and application across locations.