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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Business Development and Networking During a Pandemic Lockdown

Successful Independent Consulting

The #1 FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) among independent consultants involves business development. How can I develop a steady pipeline of leads? And now, with everyone stuck at home because of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, business development and the networking that fuels it seem impossible. But that’s not the case!

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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

6-minute read In the past few months, I’ve run several team development days for board-level teams in different sectors. And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. This includes those coming as guests to present at a board meeting, as well as some board members, themselves.

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Virtual Meetings: Eight Rules of Etiquette

Tom Spencer

The concept of virtual meetings is fairly simple. You host a meeting that would otherwise be held physically via an online platform, most probably Teams. One may assume that the etiquette that applies to in-person meetings would also apply to virtual meetings. Make a conscious effort to control your gaze during meetings.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

More meetings. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue. Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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The Broken Leadership Development Model: Why Traditional Approaches Fall Short

Clarity Consultants

However, despite recognizing leadership’s significance, traditional leadership development models often fail to produce leaders who can navigate the complexities of the modern world. Lack of Adaptability One of the primary flaws in traditional leadership development models lies in their rigidity.

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For Independent Consultants, Business Development = Relationship Development

Successful Independent Consulting

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. To meet the challenge I recommend changing your frame of reference. Whenever you think about business development, change the words to “relationship development.” Be thoughtful. Keep it simple.