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When organizational leaders reflect on who has most influenced their careers, they often name a humanistic consultant. A humanistic approach to working with people and organizations spans leadership development, executive coaching, organization development and efforts to transform and revitalize systems. The tools are borrowed from diverse sources: its effectiveness relies on a compassionate practitioner.
Tracing the historical roots of the practice, this book explores the elements that shape humanistic consulting and give it powerful versatility. Insights are offered for consultants, managers and students alike.
List of contents
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Preface
Part One: History, Evolution and Applications
¿1.¿The Humanistic Consultant
¿2.¿Organization Development: A Concept in Search of a Definition
¿3.¿The Beginning: Three Wise Men and the Birth of NTL
¿4.¿The Formative Years: Outsiders, Stems, Roots and Streams
¿5.¿The OD Practitioner
¿6.¿Organizational Behavior: OD's Academic Cousin
¿7.¿Organization Transformation: OD's Radical Cousin
¿8.¿Humanistic Coaching
¿9.¿Leadership Development
Part Two: Influence of Therapeutic and Philosophic Models
10.¿Reflections on Therapy and Consultation
11.¿The Big Three: Freud and His Dissident Disciples
12.¿A Discordant Quartet: Perls, Rogers, Ellis and Skinner
13.¿The Existential Influence
Part Three: Perspectives and Observations
14.¿Reflections and Heretical Realities
15.¿Six Managerial Paradigms in the Process of Becoming
16.¿The Practitioner as a Hired Gun
17.¿Breaking Organizational Codependency
18.¿Nurturing Learning Cultures
19.¿New Reality Management
20.¿The Right Stuff
Appendices: Self Assessments
Appendix A: Susceptibility to Organizational Codependence Index
Appendix B: Organizational Preference Questionnaire
Appendix C: Consulting Behaviors Inventory
References
Index
About the author
David Noer is an honorary senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership and professor emeritus at Elon University. He has written a wide range of articles, seven books, numerous book chapters and leadership research studies. He is the former editor of the Organization Development Practitioner and member of the Organization Development Board of Directors. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
