Consultant as Change Manager

The consulting industry is a client-driven industry and since clients need change, the industry must adapt quickly in terms of structure, operations as well as services. The primary role of consultants is to offer expertise and advice to organizations to help better their business performance in terms of management, profitability, strategy, structure and operations. Over the past few years there has been a significant transition in market dynamics particularly in terms of legislation, technology and management and this has prompted consulting firms to respond rapidly and at the same time maintaining their competitive advantage. It is due to this rapid change that has made consulting managers to take up the role of change manager. Just like in the other fields, in the educational centre change managers play a vital role. The roles of the education consulting manager and that of a change manager complement each other and have now been merged to one what is now termed as a change management consultant ( Ellis & Abbott, 2017) . The main responsibility of an education consulting manager is to identify the specific areas where there is a need for change and then evaluating how the change can be effected in the organization. Just like a consultant, the educational consulting manager identifies areas that need change for instance in a school change might be required in the educational processes or systems or students. Besides identifying the changes, the change manager also ensures that the changes are implemented which is also a role of a consultant. Similarly, just as a consultant, a change manager must be able to assess situations and circumstances taking business and employees aims into consideration. In the educational centre change management is initiated and driven by the change manager who also plays the role of the educational consultancy management. It is based on these trends in the consulting industry that ascertains that a consultant is also a change manager.

Reference

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