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Bread & Butter Projects: What They Are and Why Your Consulting Firm Needs Them

David A Fields

At virtually every restaurant, waitstaff plunks down some variation of bread and butter soon after you’re seated. The same pros and cons of that starchy pre-appetizer ring true for your consulting firm, which is why every successful consulting firm includes “bread & butter” projects in their diet. When you’re dining out, a steaming hot roll … Continued The post Bread & Butter Projects: What They Are and Why Your Consulting Firm Needs Them appeared first on David A.

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From Great Ideas to Implementation

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

After months of conducting industry research, several work sessions, debates, conversations, and meetings with industry leaders as well as with front-line team members, a client’s new strategic plan is complete. They’ve received board approval. They’ve just completed a leadership summit in which they shared their new plan with the rest of the management team and […] The post From Great Ideas to Implementation appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.

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Executive Coaching is a Powerful Tool

Brimstone Consulting

Executive coaching is a powerful tool to transform your leadership and your organization. Coaching has a direct impact on business performance while accelerating personal development and performance. Here are four reasons to consider executive coaching. Improved Self-Awareness Self-awareness is about understanding your strengths, weakness, behaviors, and blind spots.

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Leadership Tip 21: How to Know if People Are Working Hard

Johanna Rothman

Too many managers don't know how to manage remote people. Worse, those managers, or their organizations, don't trust people to do a good job. The organization installs spyware to see if people are working. That's classic Theory X behavior. However, people are smarter than the spyware. Many of these spied-upon people have installed mouse (and keyboard) simulator products.

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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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Why Business Consulting Services Benefit Companies

Business Consulting Agency

Business consulting services are becoming increasingly popular among companies of all sizes and industries. These services provide expert guidance and advice to businesses looking to improve their operations, solve problems, and grow their bottom line. Startups, small business, and established larger organizations work with consultants. To ensure better results, companies and investors work with professionals.

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Employee to Entrepreneur: Embrace A New Mindset with Denise Musselwhite

Consulting Matters

Today, Denise Musselwhite shares the moment when she decided to shift from CIO to executive coach and business owner. Denise had been dreaming of being an entrepreneur for a long time, but the Pandemic inspired her to take the leap. Her research into the challenges that women face in STEM fields and the negative impact that the Pandemic had on them motivated her to take action!

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Get More Business as a Consultant by Adding a Logo to Your LinkedIn Profile

Successful Independent Consulting

Photo 88154384 / Be A Professional © Lkeskinen0 | Dreamstime.com As a solopreneur, good marketing is critical. A well-polished image can attract clients by conveying competence and professionalism. It can differentiate you from competitors, and it demonstrates that you take your business seriously. A professional image enables prospective clients to see you as credible from the very first impression.

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From Great Ideas to Implementation

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

After months of conducting industry research, several work sessions, debates, conversations, and meetings with industry leaders as well as with front-line team members, a client’s new strategic plan is complete. They’ve received board approval. They’ve just completed a leadership summit in which they shared their new plan with the rest of the management team and […] The post From Great Ideas to Implementation appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.

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AI-Powered Consulting: Tools You Need to Know About

Tom Spencer

This is the fourth of a seven-part series looking at artificial intelligence and its implications for the consulting industry. AI in Consulting: The Beginning of a New Era How AI is Changing the Game for Consultants The Role of Consultants in an AI-Driven World AI-Powered Consulting: Tools You Need to Know About Real-World Examples of AI in Management Consulting Ethical Implications of AI in Consulting: A Deep Dive Leveling Up: Consulting Skills for an AI-Powered World Artificial Intelligence ha

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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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Sample strategic planning agenda 2023 strategic planning process UPDTE

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Strategic planning Agenda for your next strategy meeting. We've been leading strategic planning meetings for the past 12 years (and counting), and we've tested dozens of different strategic planning agendas so that you don't have to. Use our experience to have the best and most effective strategic planning process.

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The Secret Way Smart Firms Grow Instead Of Fighting For Top Talent

Henry DeVries

Brian Gerstner, president of White Label IQ, says flexible staffing can boost innovation, provide access to specialized skills, improve employee morale, and adapt to changing demand.

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The Differentiator that Makes a Great Visionary

Makarios Consulting

You might think that a great visionary is someone who comes up with wonderful, creative, profitable ideas. That is the straightforward definition of a visionary in business, and it is the basic job description of any and every visionary. But, the differentiator that moves someone from the “visionary” category to the “great visionary” category is far different.

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Mastering Time: Three Strategies for Increasing Productivity

Tom Spencer

Whether you’re a busy professional, a student, or an entrepreneur, time management is a crucial skill for anyone looking to increase their productivity. Effective time management involves an ongoing and regular process of organising your schedule so that time is allocated to all of the important aspects of your life. This includes not only your professional life, but also your spiritual, physical, friendship, and family life.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Strategic Planning and Execution: Insights from the Chief Strategy Officer of Israel's Leading Bank

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

As a business leader, you know that creating and implementing an effective strategic plan can be overwhelming. There are so many things to consider: The field your company operates in, and how quickly it changes, affects the complexity, length, and scope of your strategic plan. Understanding the timelines and interdependencies between different components of your plan is crucial.

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The Know It All Leader and What It Means

Rick Conlow

Know it all leaders abound. I think I know it all. You think you know it all. This post is for the leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, executives, and CEOs. In truth, this message is a for everyone because it can benefit everyone. In many circumstances (not all), we approach an individual, a prospective problem, a conversation, and the situation with a major misconception.

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Applying Ancient Wisdom to Modern Entrepreneurship: Passover Story Lessons

Chad Barr

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins on Wednesday evening, April 5. One of the most celebrated of all the Jewish holidays at home, the story of the exodus and freedom from slavery in Egypt, though thousands of years old, contains many insights and lessons which are relevant even today. One important lesson is that of perseverance and resilience in the face of adversity.

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What Is Instructional Design and Why Do You Need It?

Clarity Consultants

Instructional design is a crucial aspect of eLearning that involves creating compelling and engaging coursework or instructional modules that align with specific training goals. The field looks beyond simple information sharing. Instead, it promotes learning by using various mechanisms to maintain learner attention and boost knowledge retention. Without instructional design, creating engaging and value-adding courses is particularly challenging.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Is AI Technology on the Verge of Displacing Humans?

Effective Managers

According to headlines and news commentators, life as we know it is about to change dramatically. AI would seem to be on the verge of displacing humans completely. Check these out: Global AI experts sound the alarm in unique report – University of Cambridge The AI Arms Race Is Changing Everything – Times Magazine How to Survive the A.I. Revolution – Stanford University The AI Revolution Is Happening Now – Forbes The AI industrial revolution puts middle-class workers under threat this time

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Increasing Profitability In Times of a Crisis: How the Right Approach to Project and Resource Management Can Help Improve Business Outcomes

Epicflow

How can organizations ensure sustainable business growth and increase profitability during an economic downturn? Is it at all possible when a great number of companies are cutting their expenses, postponing new projects, and reducing investments in an attempt to survive? In fact, it is! The right approach to project and resource management can really help business organizations to become profitable and competitive even during tough times.

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Action Required if running Outlook 2013 on iManage Work Communication Servers

Kraft Kennedy

Action Required if running Outlook 2013 on iManage Work Communication Servers Issue Microsoft announced the end of support and updates for Microsoft Office 2013 as of April 11, 2023. As a result, any iManage customers running Outlook 2013 on the iManage Work Communications Server for Exchange (WCSE) will be impacted after the April 11, 2023 cutoff. Background The iManage Work Communications Server for Exchange (WCSE) requires a 32-bit installation of Microsoft Outlook, formally supporting versio

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Values

The Consultants Peer Group

In discussions with a Leadership Team recently, a question regarding the benefit of known Values came up. An analogy came to mind, but, first, what are Values? Core values are a small set of timeless guiding principles. Often overused, warn-out, abused, and maligned; yet, great companies all had clear core values. The values, as a set, define your culture, who you are as a group of people.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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How to Go From Conflict to Collaboration, Part 1

Nash Consulting

By Nash Consulting Think for a moment about the last person you had a significant conflict with, professionally or personally. Not a stranger you confronted over buying the last four croissants at your favorite baker, but someone you care about or with whom you interact with regularly. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and picture the conversation.

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Telecom Leader Accelerates Business Growth Through Coaching

Brimstone Consulting

CASE STUDY Telecom Leader Accelerates Business Growth Through Coaching A global telecommunications provider engaged Brimstone to design and facilitate leadership development cohorts, build an inclusive global Sustainability Plan, and coach leaders across the US and Europe. One of the leaders, the head of the organization’s US-based Operations Group, had been identified as a candidate for coaching by his manager.

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Exchange Online Kiosk Mode: Preventing Downloads of Firm Content on Non-Firm Devices

Kraft Kennedy

We recently received a request to configure Exchange Online Kiosk Mode to limit firm email access to OWA for specific users and groups. Specifically, the aim was the preventing the download of attachments within OWA. The goal of the process was to ensure the mailbox owner could not save content from the mailbox using a non-firm-owned device. In essence, the task was to create a kiosk mode for email access.

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Why Do Organizations Need to Take Instructional Design Seriously?

Clarity Consultants

When training employees, there are countless measures you can take to ensure that they’re getting the knowledge they need to perform at their best. Because of this, choosing the one that’s right for your team can feel daunting. However, there’s one that every business should be focusing on–instructional design. The Association for Talent Development defines instructional design as “the practice of creating learning experiences to support learning.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.