Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 4, 2017

I wrote the following post in response to someone on Quora who asked me about innovative methods that management consultants use to pitch clients instead of using PowerPoint presentations. Surprisingly, one can go a long way with Powerpoint presentations.

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Consultants' Consultant

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Consultants Consultant: We all know that exercise is good for us. Here are the secrets of how to exercise when it’s the last thing you want to […]. The post Getting more exercise appeared first on Consultants' Consultant. And yet we can de-prioritise it in favour of other stuff.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 31, 2023

I had a terrific time speaking with Jeff and Chad on the Agile Wire: Successful Independent Consulting with Johanna Rothman. Marketing is an ongoing and continual activity Jeff has a hack about how to read while he's exercising! That's the video link.) And more … I hope you watch this episode or listen on your podcast feed.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

As most of us spend the majority of our time working, it’s important to consider where that time is spent, how to manage your tasks and energy, and how to ultimately find fulfilment. In order to manage your money, you need to know how much is coming in and where it is going. Managing time is no different. Manage your tasks.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

What are the top power skills that every organizational consultant ought to have? Today, I want to connect more specifically with those building an organizational consulting or coaching practice not just because of the money but because they want to make a difference. A good org consultant knows organizational anatomy.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 3, 2023

Are you considering a career in people advisory consulting? In this blog post, I’ll provide an overview of what people advisory consulting is, what people advisory consultants do, and how to break into the industry. What Do People Advisory Consultants Do? What Do People Advisory Consultants Do?

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group In this interview Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group, shares his experience of developing managers so they have commercial, financial and innovation skills. What changes were you aiming to see?

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Conversely, I represent several consultants who are always in demand. Translation: change management for IT projects.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Managing your career is your responsibility. Instead, managing your career is something that needs to be done on an ongoing basis. Those who consistently manage their career are more likely to achieve their professional and career goals than those who don’t. What were you aware of, and how well did you manage the politics?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2020

Everyone—team members, managers/leaders, executives—will suffer from this fact. You cannot “manage” your way out of it. Play or exercise times. Here are the consistent pieces of my routine: Make time for exercise. Extra Tip 4: Exercise Empathy. You can manage your newly-remote days.

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Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

By: Deborah Siegle Continuing from my prior posts on Bobbie LaPorte’s talk about how to balance your work and personal life, one of Bobbie’s Keys to Success is EXERCISE. First, Bobbie defined exercise in this context as planned, structured, repetitive, purposeful exercise. Top Consulting Tips' By: Deborah Siegle.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 30, 2021

When I talk to my friends in consulting (across all firms and types of consulting), it amuses me that the early career mistakes we have made and witnessed are eerily similar across the board. Consulting is sometimes like Disney World where there are simply too many interesting and fun experiences and only so much time available.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. For those of you in university, this is a great exercise to do prior to committing to a full-time role. My primary career philosophy is to manage my career like an experiment.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Similarly, in traditional management consulting roles, employees often utilize the latest tools to solve their clients’ problems, often without considering the impacts beyond the client themselves. Projects have ranged from database management and data survey to impact assessment and market research.

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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2023

Schedule Assessment New or transitioning new managers receive an email with a scheduling link to select a session that works for them. The post LSA Global Adds New Frontline Manager Assessment Center appeared first on LSA Global. The system then automatically schedules behavioral psychologists who will be assessing each participant.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The biggest issue that many young consultants face is dealing with feedback. After every project, you will receive a report from your manager, and at some firms like Bain, a performance card from your peers and juniors. However, despite your efforts, your slides will almost never be to your manager’s liking the first time around.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

No one enjoys being turned down, especially in the case of a consulting role where a lot of preparation is required. Fortunately, a top management consulting firm is not the end all and be all. Fortunately, a top management consulting firm is not the end all and be all. approach: Reflect, Identify and Refine.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 5, 2021

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. This time, the issue comes from a manager with a thorny issue: supporting a colleague who has been treated badly but doesn’t want to make a complaint. What is the issue?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Several weeks ago, I posted my innovation principles , based on Modern Management Made Easy , book 3. Of course, I also created principles for managing yourself (Book 1) and for leading and serving others (Book 2). Exercise your value-based integrity as a model for the people you lead and serve. Of course, I did. That's okay.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Today we bring to you some key ways that you can increase your business understanding and, therefore, your effectiveness in consulting. As a consultant, you have to look at things in ways that most people would not. There are other options - including our “Consultant for a Day” exercise or the MC Consulting Bootcamps.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. What will you learn from starting a business that will help you prepare for consulting? Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market.

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Nash Consulting

JUNE 29, 2022

And the subsystem within this larger system with the most significant influence on engagement is leadership and management (we will use these two terms interchangeably here). Learn how Nash Consulting helps organizations improve employee engagement.) (Learn how Nash Consulting helps organizations improve employee engagement.)

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 4, 2009

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. The Secrecy of Management Consulting. Posted by Consultant Ninja. Labels: Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And this doesn’t just mean understanding project management software. In addition to solutions used for traditional project management tasks , technologies are also an integral part of most other day-to-day activities. Technology is present every day in almost every workflow.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We exercise our personal power (power within) in many ways: when we decide where to live, what to wear, and what to eat. When managers decide for other people, the managers exert a form of power-over. Instead, I see a manager deciding how other people or a team should work. All decisions are a form of power.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

I had the pleasure of being on the Agile Uprising Podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. We had a wide-ranging discussion, including: What the manager's job is (and is not). Why, if people manage through the seven principles, we don't need to use transparency and communication as principles.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do? One of the greatest frustrations of consulting is the desire to change your client’s organization, but not having direct influence to accomplish that change. This Blogs Home.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I explain the activity in this way: Your managers wanted you to fix this problem yesterday. The observer(s) notes how the team works: How does the team manage their work? In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark Kilby explained his Compass Exercise for how he starts converting activities.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

He gave him a peerage, which allowed him to exercise a great deal of power without being elected. In 2010 after the voters ejected him from government, Lord Mandelson launched a consultancy called Global Counsel of which he is still Chairman. None have worked as a “strategy consultant” anywhere else. Formulating strategies.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Independent consultants worldwide are making an enormous impact on the healthcare industry. In this interview, we’ll be speaking to independent consultant, Daniel, who has considerable experience consulting with large and small companies in the healthcare industry. However, the majority of my work is in healthcare.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In a misguided attempt to improve quality, the management posts monthly scores on a variety of metrics. Imagine the monthly meetings with team members, where management demands to know why the “Connection” score dropped from 32 to 29 between November and December. Pity the employees at a Starbucks in midtown NYC. That’s just torture.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” I complied; he didn’t.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 22, 2009

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Posted by Consultant Ninja. The second trend was the rise of managed care, which was sold as a way to use HMOs, PPOs, etc. at 12:30 PM.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

About LSA Global Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

ARE you an aspiring management consultant? Over the coming months we will be posting about the consulting interview. In this post we look at the purpose of the consulting interview. The purpose of the consulting interview is twofold. If so, then you’re in luck. Firstly, it is a test of client readiness.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 19, 2022

Management guru Peter Drucker once said “you can't manage what you can't measure.” How much time you sleep, exercise, spend writing blogs. I prefer to say, “Anything that’s measured can be improved.” By tracking (measuring) how you spend your time, you can increase your effectiveness, your income, and even your quality of life.

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