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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The time we invested as a leadership team to get aligned was well spent in gaining laser focus and identifying ways to prioritize what was meaningful individually and as a team. The facilitation and leadership style was direct, firm, and compassionate.

LSA provided the high level thinking and support for our team to co-create in a rapidly scaling business.

Bindu Garapaty, PsyD
VP, Talent and Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity

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

We consider LSA Global the top outsourced learning and development partner.

We work closely with LSA to customize leadership and management development programs to meet our growing business needs.

I would highly recommend LSA to any company wanting to deliver high quality and practical learning solutions for their leaders and managers.

Terri Wright-Scheer
Vice President Human Resources

Thank you so much for being the right person with the right experience and expertise to lead our Executive Team in re-examining our approach to change leadership.

I’m grateful for how you engaged and challenged us with so many “holy crap!” insights and realizations that we needed.

Jeff Nally
Chief Coaching Officer & CHRO

LSA helped us design and deliver blended leadership solutions for our key leaders to help drive our growth plans in a way that aligned with our unique culture and values.

LSA understood our business, had deep expertise in the content areas, customized the leadership development programs to fit our specific needs, and delivered great results in alignment with our strategic priorities, culture, and performance management systems.

I highly recommend them to anyone looking to take their leaders and the performance of their teams to the next level.

Beth A. Taylor
Vice President of Human Resources

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant. The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

LSA’s executive coach based his approach on understanding our business circumstances and strategy, as well as our leadership aspirations. The customized coaching covered all aspects of leadership; it was not simply a touchy-feely endeavor.

In fact, the focus on clear business outcomes and real life circumstances challenged me as a senior leader to develop my thinking and actions related to leading the business.”

Janet Pagano
Managing Director

After a difficult search to find a partner that could address a very specific leadership development need, we chose LSA Global. They were responsive to our needs and created a highly customized solution that we continue to see results from. It is nice to know we have access to their expertise with a simple phone call.

Valerie Blackburn
Director of Business Operations

Thanks for your incredible patience and passion working with our leadership team to create alignment.

Your leadership and executive coaching services have been one of the most effective I’ve ever known.

Debbie Von Raesfeld
Director and HR Business Partner

I’ve been associated with LSA for the last 8 years and have found them to be extremely professional and client-focused.

I’ve participated in a number of solutions ranging from Performance Management to Leadership Training. I’ve found the quality to be superior.

They are always well prepared and have definitely done a considerable amount of pre-work in order to customize to our unique culture and goals.

Duane Schroeder
Human Resource Manager

We reviewed the top Leadership Development offerings and selected LSA’s 12-month Leadership Program based upon the value and systemic approach.

The feedback on the program, approach, and results was phenomenal. While other programs may be better known, the other options were more theoretical and did not compare in terms of LSA’s practicality, quality, and results.

We could not be happier.

Stacey Porter
Senior Manager Learning and Development

Thank you to LSA Global for their partnership and support in helping us to design and roll-out highly needed and valuable leadership and management development programs that fit our unique situation.

I personally have partnered with LSA Global at four of my previous companies. It continues to be a delight.

We look forward to partnering with them for a long time to develop our managers and leaders.

Suzanne Kinner
VP Human Resources

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 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

LSA has been a tremendous asset at my current company and my past company.

As an HR leader, I am always looking for ways to find external resources that can provide impactful leadership and management development expertise. LSA consistently does that for me.

The tools and practices are crisp, business relevant, and easy to apply on the job.

Ken Boehm
VP of Human Resources

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.