Fri.Aug 25, 2023

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Unpacking the M&A Process for Consulting Firms (6 Stages)

Consulting Success

The merger and acquisition (M&A) process can feel like a black box, and for good reasons. It’s a process you’ll only ever go through once as a consulting firm, hopefully. It’s also a topic you won’t need to address until you have something worth selling, which is generally going to happen later on in your.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

Consulting is about more than financial return on investment (ROI). Success is fueled by the knowledge, skills, talent, and efforts of individual consultants. As Generation Z comes of age, it is important for consulting firms to understand the hopes and expectations of the newest cohort of graduating talent. Their experience of the workplace is already drastically different from previous generations.

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5 Ways to Boost Project Management Accountability in the Age of Hybrid Work

PM Alliance

The rise of long-term hybrid work arrangements has renewed the need for accountability within project teams. Traditional structures that helped reinforce employees’ responsibilities for their assigned tasks and commitments to initiatives overall, such as informal brainstorms held in hallways and working group lunches, might never return to previous levels.

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How to Steer the Conversation When Someone Asks for a Specific Backlog Item Prediction, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In How to Predict When the Team Will Complete a Specific Backlog Item, Part 1 , I said there was no way to accurately predict an estimate for a specific backlog item more than a month away. I did suggest several options if you want to go through the motions, but there's no accurate answer to that question. I also said I don't blame the managers for wanting to know.

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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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When a Coworker Undermines You in a Meeting

Harvard Business

Feeling undermined, unappreciated, or unsupported by a colleague when you’re both in the same meeting can lead to loss of trust, along with feelings of self-doubt and lack of confidence. But looking to see what you can do to help the situation, rather than dwelling on what someone is doing to you, can begin to ease tension and repair a dysfunctional working relationship.

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How to Speak Confidently to Your Team During Chaotic Times

Harvard Business

These days, many employees feel like they’re constantly receiving a stream of bad or confusing news that affects their work in unpredictable ways. When they only hear simple summaries from their leaders about issues they know aren’t so simple, teams can feel frustrated and even angry. Next time you feel you need to say something, but you’re not sure what to say, try these three strategies: 1) Recognize the power of “and” — it allows you to align two seemingly separate thoughts, such as “things a

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The length trick

Seth Godin Blog

It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a 10 minute brainstorming meeting might benefit from some editing. But it might be that your instruction manual would benefit from some more photos and better in depth explanation. Matching the complexity of the problem to the method of solving it can really pay off.

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How to Reskill Your Workforce in the Age of AI

Harvard Business

By now, it’s probably clear to most of us that the Age of AI has arrived. Artificial intelligence applications promise to transform nearly every aspect of business, from analytics to product development to customer experience to pretty much everything else. What’s less clear is how we can best manage this potential. In particular, how do we organize and reskill our workforces to take advantage of both the automated and human skills that will be necessary to drive future success.

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Top 5 Challenges of Building a High Performing Leadership Team

LSA Global

The CEO’s Best Tool for Success – A High Performing Leadership Team To thrive, organizations must be agile enough to meet everchanging market conditions. The speed and scope of change can be daunting. From shifting business models to swings in resource allocation, even the most skilled CEOs cannot lead organizational changes effectively on their own.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr