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How To Optimize Your Consulting Business In Uncertain Times With Sean Sheppard: Podcast #299

Consulting Success

In the uncertain landscape of business growth, reaching new heights requires transcending the limits of your own capacity. Welcome back to the Consulting Success Podcast! In this episode, Michael is joined by the exceptional Sean Sheppard, managing partner at U +, a renowned consulting firm with a track record of creating $2 billion in new.

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How to Manage an Employee Who Always Makes Excuses

Harvard Business

If an employee repeatedly fails, one of the reasons is often that they don’t know what showing up would look like. It’s common for managers to shortchange upfront alignment conversations in the name of speed. But that haste can cost you, especially with an unreliable employee. An investment in alignment upfront enables good performance and also provides the framework to address poor performance if it persists.

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People Problems

The Consultants Peer Group

“If it weren’t for my people, this job would be fun,” a frustrated business owner said to me. Perhaps at times you, too, have felt this way. You train your employees, you rely on them, you encourage them, you pay them, and, yet, the inevitable ‘people problems’ surface. Avoidance is not an approved leadership tool: For people-issues avoidance is not an approved leadership tool.

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Tackling the Problem of Subscribers Who Binge…Then Bail

Harvard Business

Consumers love to binge-watch streaming video. But as the number of streaming services has grown, more subscribers are scrutinizing subscription expenses and deciding to cancel. People who do this too frequently — “serial churners” — pose a special challenge to companies like Netflix. This article presents three ways companies can seek to reduce the problem of serial churn.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture. When two organizations combine through mergers and acquisitions for economic reasons, it is doubtful that the two cultures will remain precisely the same.

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“I don’t like it”

Seth Godin Blog

Everyone is entitled to their own taste. But this isn’t the helpful answer to the question, “is this good?” Whether it suits your taste might be irrelevant. “It doesn’t resonate with me” is not the same as “No one will like this.” The professional understands that they need empathy to do their job. You don’t have to be a toddler to work at Fisher Price, and you don’t have to be a cancer survivor to be an oncologist.

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Women Who Are Making Work Better for Women

Harvard Business

How Myra, Stephanie, and Becky widened options, networks, and benefits at their companies.

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LSA Global Delivers High Performing Teams for Life Sciences Company

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a High Performing Teams for Life Sciences focused on addressing the myths, challenges, and success factors to create the conditions for your team to do their best work together. 100% Job Relevance 97.4% Satisfaction 102% Knowledge Gain 93.3% Ne

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