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Employee Experience for Consultants: How to Help Your Team Thrive with Kalyn Ponti: Podcast #307

Consulting Success

“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” – Simon Sinek. Investing in your team and providing them with a great experience will drive them to perform better. In this episode, Kalyn Ponti, the CEO of Humankind, sprinkles her expertise on how consulting firm owners.

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Integrate Product Owners into Many Teams to Create Good Product Goals, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Product owners have many challenges: They need to keep at least two thoughts about the product: what it needs to be in the near future, and what the organization wants it to be in the (distant) future. Some product owners think they're supposed to fill out a complete backlog, including all the UI designs for the product before the team can start. (That's a more traditional product requirements document, and I've never seen that work.

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What Makes a Great Corporate Purpose Statement

Harvard Business

Having a well-crafted purpose statement really matters. Not only does it represent the organization’s aspirations, it also sends signals to employees about what the company stands for. It is the vital first step on the road to actually embedding and activating an authentic purpose. Yet leaders often struggle to articulate an appropriate and inspiring purpose statement due to a lack of guidance concerning the focus, scope, and form of expression they should aim for.

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British Companies Flourish in the US Market

Business Consulting Agency

Expanding into the United States market represents a colossal opportunity for British companies. The US offers vast potential, but its intricate business environment can pose significant challenges. To increase the likelihood of success, many British firms choose to collaborate with local experts and professionals, including business consultants. In this comprehensive article, we will explore why British companies often experience enhanced success when entering the US market with the assistance

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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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Where Should Your Company Start with GenAI?

Harvard Business

Companies are struggling with where to start with generative AI. The authors’ case studies, based on their growing global community of over 3,000 GenAI practitioners, point to a new category of work, more precise and actionable than “knowledge work.” They call it WINS Work — the places where tasks, functions, possibly your entire company or industry — are dependent on the manipulation and interpretation of Words, Images, Numbers, and Sounds (WINS).

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How Tony’s Chocolonely Created a Purpose-Driven (and Profitable) Supply Chain

Harvard Business

Supply chains in commodity industries are often characterized by social and environmental abuse. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day. It is an environment rife with social and environmental abuse. In this article, the authors look at the experience of Tony’s Chocolonely, a Dutch chocolate brand founded in 2005, which set itself a mission to sell 100% slavery-free chocolate.

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Widespread resistance

Seth Godin Blog

Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid powerful or creative work. Writer’s block, procrastination, overconfidence, or a belief in un-delivered talent are all symptoms of resistance. Knowing that it has a name helps us dance with it. We can’t make it go away (the more important and useful our contribution, the more likely it is to appear) but we can learn to use it as a compass.

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Coming Soon: Season 6

Harvard Business

The new season of Coaching Real Leaders dives deep into leadership challenges around building relationships, navigating your career, and more.

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Why These Companies Are Choosing Collaboration Over Competition, For a Climate Resilient Future - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GLOBAL SALMON INITIATIVE

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from GSI.

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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

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How AI Can Help Cut Energy Costs While Meeting Ambitious ESG Goals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from Schneider Electric.

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