Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 19, 2023

The power of your brand. but not as consistently as I should. Your brand codes are those images/sounds/colors/taglines that you want people to associate with you. Do you know yours? In my opinion, change comes faster and slower than we can imagine. Does every business need a strategy? You set your ambition.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 7, 2021

Although they won’t guarantee you an offer, they will increase your chances enormously. Be aware that the order does not indicate the importance. Why should you structure your time this way? You have an apple tree in your garden. It is the same with your internship tasks. Let us dive right into the topic.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2023

It leaves your team feeling valued, affirmed, and connected emotionally with you. And all of this is happening while distrust is breeding polarization in society, and only 30% of employees believe their opinion counts. Why does active listening matter? Listening does not mean agreement. The words you use matter.

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. With that in mind, here are three decisions about decision-making that will damage your business every time. Decisions, decisions!

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 31, 2022

The only time I will consider a candidate’s confidence in their abilities is for a spokesperson type of role… a role where how you say something matters a lot in terms of desired outcomes. Instead of asking a question like, “Tell me about your last job,” I ask 15 very short questions about their last job. What was your quota?” “Of

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Makarios Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. With that in mind, here are three decisions about decision-making that will damage your business every time. Decisions, decisions!

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2020

Strong communication will make your manager’s life easier. Make your manager’s job easier by managing yourself. Funnily enough, a big part of your manager’s job is to manage you. When you deliver some work to your manager, don’t just send it over and wait for her to move the ball forward. Communication.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

Why an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement Matters Findings from our organizational culture assessment tell us that most employees feel like their companies are in a constant state of organizational flux driven by the accelerating pace of organizational change and never-ending industry disruption.

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Peter Stark

AUGUST 19, 2021

There has been a lot of talk and opinions lately about whether people should return to the office, stay remote, or move to a hybrid model. The only thing that is for sure is that no matter what side you are on, you can find support for it. The question looks to not be a matter of if, but when and how. .

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Prudent Pedal

JULY 2, 2020

Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be — An Interview with Ted Harro of Noonday Ventures Should You Be Doing Research During the Pandemic? She is chocked full of insights, opinions, experience, and heart. I listened to it as if I had neither heard it nor participated in its creation. I know that I will be listening to them again.

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MishTalk

MAY 7, 2014

Consensus opinion says the Fed will continue tapering then start hiking. Consensus opinion says the Fed will continue tapering then start hiking. In theory, that should be dollar supportive. 288,000 jobs should have been dollar supportive. In theory, that should be euro negative, thus dollar positive. It wasn''t.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The 3 Most Critical Things Managers Should Do in Their First 90 Days. What managers should do in their first 90 days is just the opposite: slow down, take stock, and focus on what matters most. Do not overload the system or you will end up overstressing and wearing out yourself and your team with little to show for it.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

The only agenda item said, “Discuss important matters.” We highly recommend that your agency spend the time and money on meeting facilitation training for anyone who regularly leads meetings. These should be explicit. The bottom line is that everyone should know why they’re gathered. What are we talking about anyways?

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MishTalk

MAY 5, 2014

The reality is that the international community overwhelming does not recognize the annexation. Annexation by force is no longer how the world does business and that is what is at stake here. Reflections on World Opinion Recall that world opinion once said the earth was flat. Do opinions matter or don''t they?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Sales Training Design Best Practices Matter. Sales training design best practices matter a great deal. Why go through the expense, effort, and time to provide business sales training for your sales force if it is does not improve sales performance? Ensure Your Sales Strategy is Clear, Believable, and Implementable Enough.

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Nash Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Jane talks to think, meaning when she is processing a thought or idea, she does so out loud. He often takes long pauses when processing his thoughts, and it can take him a while to fully form an opinion or idea. Here are three reasons this stuff really matters: 1. We all have a Jane in our workplace. Now, meet John.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 16, 2015

As a consultant, or as any skilled professional for that matter, you should be aware of the the environment you are creating for yourself, both internally and externally. If your internal and external environments are healthy, you’re going to pave a road of success for yourself. 1 – Think and speak highly of yourself.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2018

Corporate Culture Matters. Many still mistakenly believe that culture is “soft people stuff” that can be deprioritized because it does not have a quantifiable impact on business performance. While recruiting and interviewing is certainly time consuming, don’t pass off your responsibility to hire top talent to others.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

As a business leader, you might have years of experience and the confidence of your organization behind you, so it may be tempting to think that your job is to always have the right answers. We listen just long enough to form a quick opinion, and then we either endorse or oppose what has been said. “Wait, What?”

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Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

You’re an excellent engineer/IT professional/accountant/[choose your own adventure]…we’re going to reward you by promoting you to a management role. Managing others well really does involve a specific set of best-practice, tried-and-true management skills. So what are these “Top 15 Management Skills,” and why do they matter?

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freshminds

MAY 11, 2016

For consultants making recommendations to business organisations about how to make them more effective, change in the digital sphere does not necessarily have to be focused on the external factors. In business decision making about internal matters, big data could play a key role.

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Billable Percentage

MARCH 21, 2017

I’ll bet money that no matter how great your job is, you have at least one gripe about your role that “others in the organization will just never understand.” A lot of the time, members of an executive team have differing opinions. They don’t have the right behaviors a functional team should have.

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Nash Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Your Brain on Dopamine Dopamine, our favorite brain chemical, is responsible for motivation, and it nudges us to pursue long- and short-term goals. As a manager, we should ask ourselves how much of people’s behaviors we must control to achieve our organizational or team goals. And it’s no wonder why!

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. But like anything overdone, it creates vulnerabilities. Here’s how it works.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The truth of the matter is Ben Bernanke is attempting to re-write history. The following video should make people think twice about listening to anything that Chairmen of the Fed Ben Bernanke says. It's a compilation of statements he made from 2005-2007 that will have your head spinning. Please play! Please play!

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). By deep work, we mean the term coined by Cal Newport, as per his definition deep work refers to: “Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. ” You and Your Team Series. 5 Things New Managers Should Focus on First. What does the situation at hand call for?

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

You’ll have to read on to hear our opinion (see Culture section in particular). The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a professional services firm that offers resources to players who are mainly in the healthcare industry. and around the world, with a premier niche in the healthcare space. Kirshbaum). Practice Areas.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I have been watching your videos and have been practicing a lot with colleagues and on my own, but feel I am still not quite at the top-level, knowing what the process is like. If you are doing well with the 2nd tiers/boutique, your case performance historically is good but not great. LOMS does not perform miracles.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2013

And long-term rates are what matter for capital investment, which is key to increasing the economy’s growth potential and raising productivity.". The Fed does not even know how to measure it. But when the price of everything goes up, your wage should rise as well. So when prices go up, wages should go up as well.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Fortunately, it is actually far easier to do well in consulting (in my opinion) than it is to get a job offer in consulting. That's because, in the recruiting process, your entire performance is determined by a combined three or four hours of interviews. They say your firm is hard to work with. and still end up doing well.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

No matter how simple the business, every effective operation is based upon some kind of revenue-generating plan. Can you articulate the strategic planning process you use to prioritize your investments and resources? Which would serve the needs of your organization more effectively…or should you try a hybrid solution? #1.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2018

Should people really be your company’s most important asset? We define talent management as the proactive and thoughtful attraction, development, engagement, and retention of the talent required to execute your strategic plan in a way that aligns with your corporate culture. So talent matters right? Not so fast.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

You and Your Team Series. Instead, you need to understand what matters to you. If you don’t know where you stand, or if you can’t accurately read your organization’s underlying culture, you’ll find yourself blowing in the wind (at best). Learn what really matters in your organization.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That’s why every strategic marketing plan, and every company’s overall security strategy, should incorporate a data breach communication plan. First, decide who in the organization is best suited to handle the crisis and form a crisis communication team (as a subset of your breach response team). A news cycle begins.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

Your organization has plenty of data about customer behavior that tells you what different customers do where and when. Does Your Company Have a Data Science Strategy? “Marketing today is in near real time and your data should be, too.” But too often the why behind their actions remains elusive.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

This should be obvious to all of us; after all, decisions don’t just materialize from the ether, ready to be executed on by managers sitting in a conference room primed to act. Headlines in the business sections of newspapers rarely read like this: Jane Doe Hires Well, Stock Price Soars. People matter that much.

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