Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Organised by the Post Growth Institute , Free Money Day is a global event in which people hand out their own money to complete strangers (two coins or notes at a time), and ask recipients to pass half to somebody else. Questions that may come up in your conversations today are ‘ how much money is enough ?’ in Economics. Tom Spencer.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

MAY 12, 2019

As consultants, we are brought into organisations to solve problems or assist with a particular challenge. Depending on the project, the questions will vary. How can we increase staff retention? For every consulting project, you ought to be able to identify a similar set of high-level questions. No pressure!

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Back to work, here we go. So it’s Productivity Week on the blog. Productivity is the measure of the output (value) we get for the time or money we spend. We can check them off, measure them and see them stacked up. We can check them off, measure them and see them stacked up. Looking for new tools.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 9, 2024

If you’re undecided whether a management role is the right move for you, then use this guide to help you work out your options. If you’re undecided whether a management role is the right move for you, then use this guide to help you work out your options. Are you an aspiring manager? Do you feel the pull towards leadership?

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This clarity empowers them to invest their time and money in solving the right problems and the right way. A lot of people ask me about assessment. You can look at the role of a consultant as someone who simply provides solutions to enhance leadership and business results. So let's get started. Transcript.

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The temps are getting cool, and we will soon be heading south to Big Bend, TX where we will be spending the first half of winter. Lately, I have gotten several emails with asks that boil down to this: I want to start writing for my audience … but which is better a newsletter or a blog. This is what we do!

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). Thanks to inflation, everything is more expensive now. Read on for ways to make this easier. Jot it down.

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Halo Psych

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Whether I’m chatting on a podcast such as my most recent interview for the Jobsworth Podcast , or whether I’m being asked to give a talk or run a course – the topic de jour has been feedback. In fact, I went on my own journey with having challenging conversations when I was a line manager, getting wrong more often than right!

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2020

After hearing that still small voice that she attributes to God, she took the leap into full-time acting and landed roles in productions like One Tree Hill, Gifted, We are the Millers and many other roles. Which I know first-hand as she and I were roomies when we both moved to Orlando almost 30 years ago!).

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 26, 2023

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a book. A decade or so later, I'd published several best-selling books, was already writing my blogs, and often spoke at conferences. A decade or so later, I'd published several best-selling books, was already writing my blogs, and often spoke at conferences. See Manage It!

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The big question is how do you establish your credibility, with the positioning to speak truth to power so they will listen? Now, there's only so much I can share with you on a podcast about practically using these power skills and how everything else we have been chatting about in these organizational consulting series fit together.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). Photo 50727473 / Piggy Bank © David Franklin | Dreamstime.com. Look at several different numbers and then decide.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, we’re talking again about burnout and the CURE. I discovered that there are excellent reasons why high-achieving women tend to burn out, including the fact that extra responsibility requires extra testosterone, and we make a fraction of this. So, of course, when I hit burnout this fall, I was compassionate right away.

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Makarios Consulting

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Even change that is for the better is never “bump-free,” as we discussed in a previous blog. That evidence can be verbal in the form of anger, questioning, or push back. People have a right to their emotions and viewpoint. Change is not easy. As a leader, you know that for a fact. What do you do then?

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). The easiest time to raise your rate is on the cusp of something new — a new year, a new project, a new client.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). Try doing a quick survey of similar consultants you know (maybe ask them to select from list of price ranges). The easiest time to raise your rate is on the cusp of something new — a new year, a new project, a new client.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We get to leverage the driver’s effort if we put in a few more seats, but add too many and the bus is too big to make a turn–and soon we’d have to add conductors and cleaners and then the bus economics no longer work. Radically transforming the size of an organization changes more than we would think.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The Hospital Bed Question. THE guesstimate question is a usual type of question that you can expect to be asked when interviewing for a position at a consulting firm. The Hospital Bed Question. The question is this: How many hospital beds are required in New York city to provide for all of its pregnant women?

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The Management Centre

MAY 2, 2023

In this blog =mc Director Yvette Gyles looks at 7 key questions to help you work out how best to manage behaviour at work. In =mc training programmes we are often asked for tips and techniques to support managers dealing with staff issues. So here are 7 key questions to help you reflect on the reality of the situation: 1.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The Three-Question Rule. I Can’t Stand to Be Asked the Same Question Three Times” ~ Mustafa. Part 3: The Three Question-Rule. The amusement results from the mismatch between what we expected and what we get. . by Tom Spencer on September 24, 2011 · 2 comments. in Management Consulting. “I

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The Management Centre

JUNE 2, 2023

We work in collaboration with our teams and the organisation and we can’t just shut ourselves off, however much we wish we could sometimes. What we can do, though, is to actively manage these requests. Do I have the right knowledge and expertise to help? Ah, yes – you’re not alone.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Unproductive questions about what you could have done differently and fears about the unknown are keeping you at up at night. You understand the business rationale and the economic conditions that led your company make this decision that is completely changing your life. But your heart.that's a whole different story. your own terms.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Jen and I talk a lot about our vision in so many things that we do. And we want to alleviate that for you so that you can get in front of clients and make a difference. You're a purpose driven consultant , and we want to equip and empower you to do the work that you're here to do. Transcript. Betsy Jordyn: It's Betsy Jordyn.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Jen and I talk a lot about our vision in so many things that we do. And we want to alleviate that for you so that you can get in front of clients and make a difference. You're a purpose driven consultant , and we want to equip and empower you to do the work that you're here to do. Transcript. Betsy Jordyn: It's Betsy Jordyn.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 7, 2021

=mc Director and L&D specialist Yvette Gyles blogs on the pros and cons of appraisals… Tis the season for performance reviews – well, it seems that way to me. And there always seems to be some new scientific reason why we should ditch the annual review process. Old fashioned? I don’t think so. They are conversations.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2022, we’ve implemented a lot of updates – both in the team, features, and website, and we also have a clear roadmap of what we want to introduce next year. We’ve opened a new office of Epicflow in Bydgoszcz, which is a cozy well-equipped open-space environment in the north of Poland. . We’re so proud of him! .

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Nash Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They are clearly comfortable sharing ideas, questions, concerns, and even mistakes without fear of ridicule or reprimand. Then imagine how her heart must have sunk when, contrary to her initial expectations, the findings indicated a direct correlation between higher levels of psychological safety and an increase in mistakes!

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Tsavo Neal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Blog: Demonstrate how your content will benefit people — and prompt them to click on and read it. We’re looking for engineers who want to work on @gumroad ! Praise: Prove you are who you claim to be from the words of other people who vouch for you. A must-have if you are seeking a new job. I’ll give you a quick example.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

When we think about how much our personal lives can affect us at work and our ability to perform well, it seems incredulous that staff wellbeing has previously been so far down the agenda. Everything we know points to better results from happier, healthier workers. Do they ask fewer questions or share ideas less than they used to?

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As we look back at 2020, we have had to handle some tough situations over the last year. Towards the latter part of last year, here at =mc we found ourselves delivering more and more Handling Difficult Conversations training programmes. A pandemic will do that to you. Getting prepared is vital. Think Macaulay Culkin circa 1990.

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The Management Centre

JULY 5, 2023

Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature, we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 29, 2022

We have been asked to help facilitate several team away days and team sessions across numerous charities and social good organisations. Often we are given the following brief: We want a team away day, in person, as soon as possible. Having an away day because you feel like it’s the right thing to do is great.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

This year, we created a survey that we administered to both new and seasoned consultants to learn more about what drives smart people to start their own consulting businesses and what stands in the way of achieving their full potential. Or interested in taking your consulting business the next level? Changes to current job.

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Effective Managers

MARCH 31, 2023

According to headlines and news commentators, life as we know it is about to change dramatically. My own personal preference for a term for the artificial forms of intelligence we see now is Augmented Intelligence. AI would seem to be on the verge of displacing humans completely. Now hang on a minute!!! What time is it in Singapore?

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The Management Centre

MARCH 31, 2020

Learning is important because it keeps us motivated, keeps our minds active and means we are more able to manage change. And during this time of upheaval, we are needing to adapt to change quicker than ever. These often have little or no interaction, other than typing questions into a box or taking part in polls.

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Halo Psych

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I know, right?! 5 minute read First off, you might be wondering why I’ve put the word syndrome in apostrophes? It’s because the phrase impostor syndrome isn’t the correct one. For years, I also used the term ‘impostor syndrome’ but then when I started my doctoral studies, I came across the original 1978 research. You’re nothing special.

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The Management Centre

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Agreement : Does everyone agree with the role they are playing and the role that others are being asked to do? How to clarify project roles and responsibilities. Three of the main problems that affect project success are unclear responsibilities, poor communication, and ill-defined decision-making. This is where the RACI matrix can help.

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