The Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada) fosters excellence and integrity in the management consulting profession. The Association and its 2300+ CMC members are dedicated to advancing the profession and delivering the benefits of these efforts to the client community. CMC Canada’s vision is of a thriving and diverse profession that contributes to Canada's prosperity, with CMC recognized as the pinnacle of management consulting practice.
In the fall of 2019, the CDS Network approached CMC Canada with the idea of introducing CMCs across Canada to CDS. From these discussions a Master Class series offering was designed and developed with the view that CDS can help professional consultants, whether working internally or externally to organizations, raise and expand their competencies and skills to deliver distinctive high-value to their clients.
The intent of this CMC Master Class series is to provide CMC members (and non-members) with an opportunity to learn about and begin to apply a subset of key Challenge Dialogue elements, or “CDS Essentials”, which are of high value and also representative of CDS’ broader suite of principles, processes and tools. These CDS Essentials are referenced in relation to the 8-steps for organizing and operating a Challenge Dialogue (see the Tools section elsewhere on this website). On February 25, 2020, Keith Jones and Tom Ogaranko introduced the Master Class series in a 60 minute webinar titled: Master Class Info Session: Challenge Dialogue System — Helping you and your clients tackle complex challenges with confidence: CDS – a powerful dialogue-based consulting framework. Following is an overview of the 4 sessions over the course of 2020.
Master Class #1: Establishing an Organizing Team and Engaging the Dialogue Participants - Apr 22nd
Pre-Read: excerpts from Learning Program Modules; Dialogue Roles
Take-aways: Guide, Checklist to Test Balance; Example Dialogue plan
Master Class #2: Crafting a Challenge Paper - Jun 4th
Pre-Read: Peruse Challenge Paper Community Literacy Challenge Dialogue case study
Take-aways: Communications Template & Guide; Invitation Letter Template
Master Class #3: Designing and Delivering an Effective Face-to-Face Dialogue - Sep 10th
Pre-Read: Peruse Workshop Workbook Community Literacy Challenge Dialogue case study
Take-aways: Completed Design Template and Workbook for case study
Master Class #4: Logic and Whole-System Outcome Modelling - Nov 19th
Pre-Read: Peruse the Final Dialogue Report for the Community Literacy Challenge Dialogue case study
Take-aways: Example creative logic models, Strategy Roadmap for case study
For more details on these sessions and registration, please visit — https://www.cmc-canada.ca/online-learning