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The first PSY 616 module usually introduces consulting roles, internal and external consulting and Schein's process consultation. An early post might ask students to describe a consultant they have worked with and which model that person followed.

The second typically covers entry and contracting, drawing on Block, and the third data collection methods and their trade-offs.

The fourth commonly addresses diagnostic models, Weisbord, Burke-Litwin and the congruence model.

The fifth often turns to analysis and the feedback meeting, including how to handle resistance.

The sixth usually takes up intervention types, from individual and team interventions to structural and large-group change.

The seventh generally covers change management with Lewin and Kotter, and the eighth culture and mergers.

The ninth and tenth typically focus on evaluation, ethics and closing an engagement, along with the final project.

Weekly reading tends to combine chapters from an organization development text such as Cummings and Worley with articles from the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science or Consulting Psychology Journal. From about the midpoint, prompts expect each deliverable to build on the last, and the diagnosis and intervention modules carry the heaviest load. Instructors sometimes reorder topics.

The client for the final project is fixed at the start, perhaps the food bank nonprofit, where one regional office runs on formal procedures and the other on volunteer improvisation, and where staff in both fear losing their jobs, so each module adds a stage of one engagement.

Posts appear as each module opens. In the contracting module, a post might ask who the client really is when the executive director, the board and two regional directors all want different outcomes; in the culture module, it might apply Schein's levels of culture, artifacts, espoused values and basic assumptions, to the two offices. Replies under classmates' posts raise a confidentiality risk or question whether a proposed intervention fits.

Deliverables arrive before their deadlines, each opening with the client situation and the consulting question. The diagnosis might find that the merger plan never defined decision rights, that the two offices measure success differently and that volunteers feel ignored; the intervention might combine a joint operating agreement, shared metrics and a series of cross-office working sessions.

If a module asks you to interview a manager or present on video, that part is yours; a guide or script can be supplied.

References are drawn from organization development and consulting journals, formatted to APA 7, and each grade's comments shape the next deliverable and the final project.

An organization development consultant with I/O training holds your PSY 616 seat for all ten weeks, someone who has run assessments, facilitated difficult team sessions or guided organizations through mergers.

For the food bank nonprofit, that background matters: a consultant who has worked with nonprofits knows how board politics, donor expectations and volunteer culture shape what change is possible, and how to design an intervention that a stretched staff can actually carry out. Since a single consultant writes every module, the engagement develops consistently and the final project reads as one piece of work.

A colleague with I/O training checks each deliverable for method and ethics before it reaches you.

On the board, these writers draw on real engagements: why the person who calls the consultant is often not the client, what happens in a feedback meeting when findings implicate the sponsor, how mergers fail when no one defines decision rights.

Contracting weeks are often the first stumbling point in PSY 616, because students have to define the client and confidentiality before any data exist.

Diagnosis weeks require a model applied with evidence, which many students find harder than describing problems.

Feedback weeks bring a different skill, presenting unwelcome findings in a way leaders accept.

The final PSY 616 weeks pair intervention, evaluation and the full project. Students who switched clients during the term find their stages do not connect, and interview or presentation requirements need people and recording time arranged early.

Ethics runs through the whole course. Graders expect students to recognize when a sponsor's request conflicts with what was promised to staff, and to say how a consultant would respond under the SIOP and APA codes. The nonprofit gives those questions real stakes, since layoffs and a board under donor pressure are part of the case.

Hours in PSY 616 pile up around the nonprofit diagnosis, the intervention plan and the project report, while proposals, memos and data plans are lighter and the board lighter still.

Plenty of students pass the course over once the role and contracting modules are done, when diagnosis begins. The nonprofit, or your chosen client, continues with the work already graded.

Students who already work as internal consultants or HR partners sometimes keep the discussion board, where their project stories carry weight, and pass on the formal deliverables; others hand over everything.

All deliverables run on one calendar.

When the budget covers only part of the term, the diagnosis and the final project are where an experienced consultant lifts the grade most. Your estimate breaks the rest of the course into modules, with each deliverable and its date listed.