Fri.May 12, 2023

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Consulting Pipeline: 4 Steps To Consistent Consulting Clients

Consulting Success

Recently, a Clarity Coaching client reached out about the challenges they were having with their consulting pipeline. “My main challenge is filling my pipeline so I’ve been putting a lot of energy into marketing. This fall I changed the focus of my non-profit consulting practice. By far, most of my work had been with a.

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Flying High: How to Build Travel Rewards as a Consultant

Tom Spencer

If you are transitioning into consulting from school or a job in industry or government, you will likely begin traveling more than ever. Sure, maybe you have gone to a few conferences or travelled to your company’s annual meeting, but once you begin a consulting career you will be on the road much more frequently than before. The average consultant travels at least once a month, with the upper end of the spectrum being every Monday through Friday throughout the year.

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AI Can Be Both Accurate and Transparent

Harvard Business

Historically, tech leaders have assumed that the better a human can understand an algorithm, the less accurate it will be. But is there always a tradeoff?

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Fool-Proof Note Taking: The Verbatim Approach

Tom Spencer

As consultants, we are required and recommended to take notes for the meetings we attend. This seems like a simple task because formal education has forced us, at one time or another, to take notes. The world of formal education, however, is typically parsed out so an individual only needs to focus on one subject at a time. Meetings in a ‘professional setting’ on the other hand, can be complex – they can be long and very detail-oriented.

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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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6 Datasets to Help Gain Consensus on Your Digital Transformation Project’s Scope and Deliverables

PM Alliance

Getting everyone to agree on what a project should accomplish—and what’s best left for a future effort—can be a real challenge. This is particularly true with digital transformation initiatives, which must often balance the difficulties of long project durations against the market realities of ongoing technology advancements that can quickly change what’s needed (or expected, or available) in a new solution.

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What’s a “techie”?

Seth Godin Blog

A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this newsletter aside…” We should get clear about what we’re talking about when we say “techie.” I’m going to argue that involves a combination of two things: You give technology the benefit of the doubt.

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Top 4 Challenges for a Project Management Office (PMO) and Ways to Address Them

Epicflow

According to a recent report by Wellingltone, 82% of business organizations have a project management office. And that’s no wonder – an effectively working PMO can streamline a company’s project management processes, improve their outcomes, optimize costs, and facilitate achieving an organization’s business objectives. However, despite their increasing popularity and significance, PMOs face a number of difficulties.