The Source

DECEMBER 24, 2020

By our estimate, 2020 saw the consulting market shrink by an unprecedented amount—a contraction of 13% compared to 2019, far greater than the industry has suffered in any previous crisis. Against this backdrop, the consulting industry has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to adapt.

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Tsavo Neal

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How can I find the companies that need management consulting? The last thing I need is a management consultant. What I could use, though, is some good advice. ” -Cal Harrison, The Consultant With The Pink Hair. Don’t look for companies that need management consulting. So, share your management consulting advice.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 14, 2020

There’s a pretty good reason for that: it’s where most personal brands—whether you’re talking about fitness influencers or even, in many cases, consultants in the professional services industry—have initial success attracting an audience. Read your blog? My first version of my website and my blog was horrible. Just start.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore how the increased use of renewable energy is impacting the consulting industry, and what consulting companies must do to adapt and thrive in this changing landscape. By 2020, renewable energy accounted for nearly 30% of global electricity production.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Do some market-rate benchmarking to learn what other consultants are charging, or what clients are paying. Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). Or search the internet: for example, “typical consultant rate for organizational design in New York.”

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 17, 2020

As a freelancer or consultant, LinkedIn is a way for you to attract clients. As a freelancer or consultant, don’t list your profession — at least not until later in your profile. My first version of my website and my blog was horrible. The post Friday Fusion: July 17, 2020 appeared first on Tsavo Neal. Just start!”.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Focus on Relationships That Matter. Here's the story of the consulting book. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. So several people asked me how I had become a successful consultant. See Manage It!

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2020

You know the feeling I'm talking about - the one that describes 2020 perfectly. When consultant and trainer Christy Ogilvie's business dried up because of the pandemic, she flipped this question around and started to ask, "OMG - could I be doing anything else to make my business grow even stronger?" Take Action.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2021

Billy Gerhard is a consultant in the Philadelphia office of the Boston Consulting Group, a Big 3 management consulting firm. What got you interested in consulting? Consulting was a way to apply my problem-solving approach to different problems faced by all kinds of businesses. In 2019, he received his Ph.D.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit. Here's the story of the consulting book. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. So several people asked me how I had become a successful consultant. See Manage It!

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? I have worked on and off with Jim since 1999, first as his Organization Development Consultant at Disney and, more recently, as a sounding board when he retired from his 43-year career. Learn more.

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The Source

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Every crisis puts consulting fee rates under short-term pressure and changes clients’ long-term views about what constitutes a reasonable price. Whenever we would ask the question prior to the pandemic, we always found that only a small percentage of clients expected consultants’ rates to fall over the short-term future.

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The Source

OCTOBER 5, 2021

After a challenging and chaotic 2020, the global consulting market has bounced back faster than anyone could have anticipated—with this rapid uptick in demand creating an unprecedented talent crisis within the industry. But in every crisis, as they say, there’s an opportunity.

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Management and IT Consulting

MAY 12, 2021

With 2020 firmly in the rearview mirror, strong demand for a wide range of consultancy services (not just technology) appears to be largely back. This blog introduces three levers to pull now while the opportunity is ripe.

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Consultants can help improve marketing and advertising efforts, as help with other areas. Through marketing consulting services , centers can get professional assistance. Addiction treatment centers utilize blogs, videos, podcasts, and social media to disseminate informative and supportive content.

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The Source

AUGUST 13, 2020

According to our estimates, risk consulting and related services were worth US$72bn in 2019, US$18bn of which was cybersecurity consulting (note: definitions differ—our numbers don’t include systems development, outsourcing, or hardware and software sales). But who’ll benefit?

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The Source

APRIL 6, 2020

As the many people who read, listen and watch our material know, we’ve been giving a lot of thought over the last 2-3 weeks to how we can understand and track the impact of COVID-19 on the global consulting industry during the course of 2020. The analogy I’ve been increasingly using is of a prism.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Merging insights from leading consulting firm McKinsey, academic journals, and contemporary cultural references like Ted Lasso , this blog explores the multifaceted nature of leadership to which many, if not most, organizations may wish to aspire. billion workers” (Allas & Schaninger, 2020). References Allas, T. &

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The Source

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In the meantime, it’s clear that the business community is feeling shaken by the sheer range and potential severity of the negative indicators facing it, and a nervous client base is rarely good news for consultants.

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In February 2020, a message in a bottle washed ashore at St Aubin beach in the Channel Islands, 82 years after it had apparently been thrown into the sea. I’d be hard pressed to find a better analogy for the way many consulting firms communicate with their clients.

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QEmploy

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This is the best ”top 50 list” of blogs, magazines and websites for consultants that you will find on the internet. That is why I have compiled a list of 50 different blogs, magazines and websites that every consulting firm should know about, and I explain what they all have to offer their readers.

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The Source

APRIL 8, 2022

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that didn’t seem to be the case for consultants in the depths of the COVID pandemic.

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 29, 2020

What are some of the secrets of being an independent consultant? I’ve spoken with hundreds of independent consultants over the last 5 years, and here are some of the “secrets” I’ve learned : 1. “You’re not in the consulting business, you’re in the marketing business. Independent consultants really struggle with marketing.

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 15, 2020

Every week, I write about web design, copywriting, and digital marketing for independent consultants and small firms. Friday Fusion is a collection of said writing from Quora, LinkedIn, and email conversations with consultants. The Negotiator Guru is a consultant who provides Salesforce contract negotiation services. Want proof?

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The Source

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Our real-time forecast for the global consulting industry currently predicts that by the end of 2020, the market will have contracted by around 13% compared to 2019. However, that high-level picture can only tell us so much.

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 22, 2020

Every week, I write about web design, copywriting, and digital marketing for independent consultants and small firms. Friday Fusion is a collection of said writing from Quora, LinkedIn, and email conversations with consultants. How do consulting firm partners find clients? The biggest challenge of launching a new website?

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Later in the year, I’m going to roll out a few ways that we can work on doing research on a big or small scale, but I’m going to share a blog post I wrote towards the end of 2022 that covered a few of the things I learned doing some big and small market research projects since 2021 with a number of sports clubs around the world.

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Tsavo Neal

JUNE 26, 2020

Every week, I write about web design, copywriting, and digital marketing for independent consultants and small firms. Friday Fusion is a collection of said writing from Quora, LinkedIn, and email conversations with consultants. But if you’re selling consulting services, never put your price on your website. Blair Enns.

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The Management Centre

JULY 8, 2020

2020 has challenged us all to be creative, do things differently, and find ways to survive. The challenges of 2020 aren’t totally new. To find out how =mc can help you explore effective learning options suited to your situation, contact us online or call 020 7978 1516 to speak to one of our consultants. What’s next?

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Tsavo Neal

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

When I was applying for my first web designer job, I had worked for two companies: McDonald’s Tsavo Neal Consulting. ” [link] — Tsavo (@TsavoNeal) August 24, 2020. The post Friday Fusion: September 25, 2020 appeared first on Tsavo Neal. So, what should you do? Create your own “commercial” experience.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 31, 2020

Here’s a story from Tiago Forte about the importance of having a personal website as a job seeker : “I remember when I was working at a consulting firm, I was responsible for hiring an employee. They were going to be a junior analyst — the lowest ranking person in that brand of our consulting firm in San Francisco.

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The Source

MARCH 24, 2021

Consultants pride themselves on being right at the vanguard of conversations taking place within their industries, and on having a point of view on all of the issues that matter to their clients. And in 2020, it was nigh on impossible to do that without paying attention to the topic of diversity and inclusion.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 1, 2015

If there is one skill that is needed for leaders today as we head to 2020 it is the ability to come up with real time creative solutions. In my keynote I delivered today, “Lead with 2020 Vsiion – Build the Future Workplace Today” I shared this concept as a key success tool for all of us moving forward.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 30, 2022

That largely changed in 2020. It’s also important to build a partnership with an experienced project management consultancy that can help you develop and augment the skills you may need to elevate your project controls. Historically, businesses have had a pretty good handle on long-term planning.

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Buzzsprout

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

FastTrack offers three production levels: audio-only, audio and blog post, and audio, blog, and show notes creation. Castos Productions | $150 per episode PodcastMotor merged with the Castos platform in early 2020, offering built-in production options to users via Castos Productions.

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Alan Weiss

MARCH 16, 2020

Send your message in all media: blog, newsletter, video, podcast, teleconference, webinar, livestream—anything not requiring physical presence. © Alan Weiss 2020. Get into the “public square” with your analysis based upon your expertise (supply chain, talent retention, IT, change management, etc.).

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Greetings blog readers! While I don't blog nearly as much as I used to, I'm still here, and still quite busy. Since May of 2020 (second month of "shelter-in-place") I've been the IED for Friends of Oakland Animal Services (FOAS). First the Interim job.

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