David A Fields

MAY 7, 2024

Since you lead a consulting firm, not a firefighting squad, you can err on the side of risk taking rather than caution. In fact, a bias toward action, ambition and audacity may be required to grow your firm past what you’ve achieved already. Eight Steps to a More Audacious You (and More Audacious Consulting Firm) … Continued The post Eight Steps to a More Audacious You (and More Audacious Consulting Firm) appeared first on David A.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 2, 2024

Imagine walking into a networking event and you don’t know a soul. How quickly would you want to duck out? That’s how social media can feel for many consultants and coaches. BUT what if I told you that this 24/7 networking event could not just be bearable but actually fun and exactly what you need to build awareness about your brand and get clients ?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 3, 2024

In the fast-paced world of management consulting, effective communication is key. As consultants strive to convey complex ideas, strategies, and recommendations, a well-crafted slide deck is an invaluable tool. In this article, we will explore a simple structure that you could follow to break down the layout of a consulting slide deck. 1. The Problem Every management consulting engagement begins with the identification of a problem.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2024

Leaving a company that’s been your professional home for years, or decades, is a major shift that can feel both thrilling and perilous. In this article, the authors outline six challenges that often come up when making this transition: 1) Ruminating and second-guessing; 2) Feeling guilty; 3) Being afraid of losing status; 4) Needing to adapt; 5) Managing the perceptions of your new colleagues; and 6) Balancing opposing emotions.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Are you looking for work, either as a consultant or a candidate? As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. That's fine. But too often, the work they want will take you hours or days. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 6, 2024

As a premier Learning and development (L&D) consulting company, Clarity Consultants is thrilled to announce our sponsorship of the ATD 2024 International Conference & EXPO in New Orleans from May 19th to May 22nd. This event, held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, is one of the most anticipated gatherings in the L&D industry, attracting professionals worldwide to explore the latest trends, innovations, and strategies shaping the future of workplace learning.

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Harmonious Workplaces

MAY 3, 2024

Employee Engagement and Satisfaction to Ease Top Concerns for Employers When I owned a sign company before the Great Recession, I employed a small but mighty team of multitalented workers who needed to do graphic design, build signs, handle customers with care, clean the shop, and a myriad of other tasks. They represented the majority […] The post Talent Optimization for the Win appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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Kraft Kennedy

MAY 2, 2024

The Current State of Thin-Client Architecture Q: “ Excluding remote access use, how does your firm PRIMARILY deliver the desktop internally to users ?” This question was recently posed in the member forum of the Information Technology Legal Association (ILTA) Public Open Forum. We’re publishing insights from Kraft Kennedy’s Chief Technology Officer, Chris Owens, on this topic.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2024

When you’re working with new people, spending time upfront to have an explicit and open conversation about each other’s work styles and preferences can prove to be one of the best time investments. This “style alignment” conversation can lay a foundation for trust and understanding and help you set agreements for how to successfully work together. Yet, many people shy away from having these conversations for two reasons.

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Effective Managers

MAY 3, 2024

In the dynamic world of management consulting, the ability to adapt and customize tools to the unique demands of each project is crucial. The ISO 20700 checklist, a pivotal tool for consultants, is designed with this flexibility in mind. This checklist isn’t just a rigid set of rules; it’s a dynamic framework that can be tailored to a wide range of project types and sizes.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 3, 2024

My writing WIP this week is from the speaking book. (As a side note: I'm using these 60 Seconds posts as a forcing function to write and finish the book. Why? Because like most writers, I have a number of writing projects in progress. I'm using this weekly commitment to myself to write, record, and publish something every week. As a side benefit, you can see how writers progress on a book.

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The Management Centre

MAY 2, 2024

=mc Learning Director Yvette Gyles met leading advocate for disability inclusion Zara Todd to discuss how L&D Managers and training providers can better support access needs. As someone working in Learning and Development, what do you visualise when you consider the term accessibility? Is it ensuring we have our needs taken care of within the work we are doing and learning spaces we are in?

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Chad Barr

MAY 1, 2024

In an era where ideas often seem like mere reiterations, could it be that true innovation is not only thriving but is also concealed in plain sight? The familiar saying “there is nothing new under the sun” might lead us to think otherwise, but the truth reveals a striking contrast. Every day, humanity ventures into realms of innovation and creation previously unimagined.

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Buzzsprout

MAY 7, 2024

Getting feedback on your podcast is essential for improving and growing your show, and podcast reviews remain one of the best ways to do this. However, despite social media and the interconnectedness of the internet, getting listeners to leave reviews can be relatively challenging for podcasters. In this blog, we'll show you how to get more reviews, how you can leverage them to make your show better, and why they matter in the first place.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2024

Identifying as an organizational member — or feeling a strong sense of attachment to the organization — is generally a positive thing for employees and employers. But our research on workplace incivility and mistreatment shows that it can also shape when — and if — employees recognize and respond to subtle forms of discrimination against women at work.

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Girard Training Solutions

MAY 7, 2024

On this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric sits down with Heli Nehama Ozery, founder and CEO of Artemis OD, a management consulting firm based in Silicon Valley. For the past 15 years, Heli has been working with global companies to help them elevate performance and productivity while fostering employee growth. Heli is passionate about making learning experiential and creating “aha” moments.

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LSA Global

MAY 6, 2024

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an Effective Sales Presentation Training to a Business Development Team being asked to win more new business and to sell the entire solution set to meet aggressive growth goals. 92% Satisfaction 91% Knowledge Gain 93% Net Promoter Score This fa

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Some restaurants keep a photo of the local reviewer in the kitchen. The thinking is that if someone notices she’s in the building, everyone can up their game. And some musicians wait eagerly for A&R person to be in the crowd. If they really kill it tonight, a record deal might ensue. The most resilient approach, of course, is to act as if.

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MAY 7, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce our new thought leadership partnership with the European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) , a leading CX business network that empowers leaders, people, and organizations in Europe and around the world to collaborate, discuss, generate brand awareness, learn, and grow. Join us as we continue to explore exciting developments in customer experience, innovation, employee experience (EX), design, adoption, and more—all related to digital media and customer eng

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Leadership Vision Consulting

MAY 5, 2024

In this episode, we dive into how training for a marathon mirrors many life and business challenges. Brian and I discuss the unexpected yet profound parallels between training for a marathon and the broader strategies that we can all apply to life's challenges, from engaging more deeply in our work environments to enhancing our daily personal interactions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2024

As AI becomes more powerful, it faces a major trust problem. Consider 12 leading concerns: disinformation, safety and security, the black box problem, ethical concerns, bias, instability, hallucinations in LLMs, unknown unknowns, potential job losses and social inequalities, environmental impact, industry concentration, and state overreach. Each of these issues is complex — and not easy to solve.

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Consulting Success

MAY 3, 2024

Trust and value are integral consulting pillars. I can’t think of a single consulting client I’ve landed without first laying a foundation of trust. However, creating a trust-based relationship doesn’t necessarily mean having a longer sales cycle. In fact, if you get your messaging right, conveying value and building trust can happen even after a.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2024

The FTC’s new noncompete rule adopts a comprehensive prohibition on the use of noncompete clauses in any U.S. industry with any worker, including those at senior executive levels. The rule is promulgated using the FTC’s authority to determine practices that are unfair methods of competition. For those who have long argued against the use of noncompetes, this moment has been a long time coming.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2024

While there’s been a recent string of disappointing macroeconomic data, in reality, these developments are signs of the U.S. economy’s strengths, not weaknesses. The economic pessimism of the last few years has often been rooted in a misreading of the U.S. consumer. Too often, they are cast as financially squeezed, burning through their pandemic-era savings, and reeling from the real income cut that inflation has inflicted on them.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2024

The cyberattack on Change Healthcare that devastated the U.S. health care sector made painfully clear that much more needs to be done to address vulnerabilities that exist throughout the ecosystem. This article offers five actions that can go a long way to improving cybersecurity throughout the sector and make it much more resilient.

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Just because we're working with a distributed team doesn't mean we have to abandon time-tested tools and methods like whiteboarding. Digital look-alikes often cramp creativity and all but eliminate the humanity of shared interactions. Hardware solutions are also limiting and, of course, expensive and immobile. In an increasingly digital and remote-first world, it’s important for us to select tools and processes that allow us to mitigate if not eliminate the above problems.

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