{"id":1535,"date":"2019-01-03T15:25:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:52","slug":"3365-flawless-consulting-relevance-for-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/3365-flawless-consulting-relevance-for-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"3:365 | Flawless Consulting | Relevance for Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Moore nominated me to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenM\/status\/1080820015107067904\">post a book a day on Twitter<\/a> and my selection today was Flawless Consulting: A guide to getting your expertise used. I&#8217;ll link\u00a0to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flawless-Consulting-second-Text-Only\/dp\/B004NLZ1XS\/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=1546526383&amp;sr=8-1\">2nd edition of the book as used copies of this older edition cover much of the same ground<\/a> as the newest edition at a fraction of the price. We were assigned this text in my graduate program in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University, and I used it as required reading in a consulting skills for designers course I taught at Old Dominion University. I plan to revisit some of the book&#8217;s themes in Designers for Learning&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/designersforlearning.org\/digitalinclusion\">upcoming Digital Inclusion Challenge<\/a> where we&#8217;re setting up an experience for designers to seek out stakeholders who want to improve the access of their services\/products for patrons with low digital literacy skills. We hoped to launch the free self-directed service learning\u00a0experience last fall, but we&#8217;ve pushed things back as we migrate to a new LMS &#8230; more on that later.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s my background in the business world, but I think consulting skills are among the most important skills a designer can possess. Our role always involves working with a range of stakeholders, and (as the title of this book suggests) getting our expertise used is crucial\u00a0to the job. Flawless Consulting does a good job of not only framing the key skills but also walking through the relationship, including preparing for the first meeting, strategies for engagement, &#8220;contracting,&#8221; dealing with resistance, ethics, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Moore nominated me to post a book a day on Twitter and my selection today was Flawless Consulting: A guide to getting your expertise used. I&#8217;ll link\u00a0to the 2nd edition of the book as used copies of this older edition cover much of the same ground as the newest edition at a fraction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}