They practice setting goals, develop interpersonal relations, clarify team roles and work to
improve organizational characteristics through problem - solving tasks.
In management consulting, the crucial assumptions are that 1) each organization possesses a unique culture and set of goals; therefore, the same intervention is likely to elicit different results depending on a school's history, organization, personnel, and politics; and 2) suggestions for change should creatively blend knowledge from many different sources — from general
organizational theories, from deep insight into the district or schools under study, and from «craft» knowledge of what is likely to
improve schools or districts with particular
characteristics.