Skill Assessment: Professional Skills For Consulting Practice (2 Page Paper)

Skill Assessment: Professional Skills For Consulting Practice (2 Page Paper)

As you move through this course and work on various simulation exercises and case studies (either individually or with a team), think about how you can develop your consultation skills, deepen your professional knowledge, and put theory to practice.

To prepare:

Complete the “Profile Survey” that begins on p. 49 of Chapter 2 in your course text.
Select five behavior descriptions from the Profile Survey that are “Very Characteristic” of you and five that are “Not at all Characteristic” of you.
Submit by Day 5 a 2 page paper that includes two of the “Very Characteristic” behaviors and two of the “Not at all Characteristic” behaviors that you selected from the Profile Survey. Briefly explain your selections. Include your overall profile average (which is obtained from filling out the Profile Form parts 1 and 2 which is attached).

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.