David A Fields
OCTOBER 12, 2021
As a consulting firm leader, you’re well aware that within every client presentation longer than 30 minutes, every white paper, and every compendium of content beefier than 20 pages, you’re required to present at least one 2×2 matrix. Failure to do so could cost you your consulting license. This was brought to my attention by … Continued.
Consulting Success
OCTOBER 15, 2021
What metrics for consulting businesses should you track if you want to grow? You’ve heard it before: what gets measured gets managed. But if you don’t even know what to measure, how are you supposed to manage (or improve) it? We’ve had many consultants in our Clarity Coaching Program ask us about what they should. 8 Metrics For Consulting Businesses: What To Track (And Why) is a post from: Consulting Success.
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Successful Independent Consulting
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Photo: Getty Images. As a an independent consultant you probably set your own rates. The more professional you are, the more likely you’ll be able to charge more for your expertise and services. Having a logo for your business will help you look like “the real deal” so why not get one? It’s not a huge financial investment. In some cases you can even get one for free.
Consulting Matters
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Adam Schwartz was an experienced Chief Communications Officer for a $3b global hospitality company when he unexpectedly got laid off. When he got opportunities, he knew he didn't want to take another corporate job. He wanted to do his own thing, but he didn't know what that was. This sacred crossroads is where he and I started to work on his brand messaging and positioning.
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Jacq Hackett Consulting
OCTOBER 13, 2021
If you’ve had a successful career in the government or community services sector, you might be thinking about setting up a consulting business. But are you cut out for it?
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 15, 2021
I've been hearing people talk about “hybrid” remote teams. So far, every person I've talked to means something different. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we differentiated between these types of teams: Collocated, as all the people are within 8-16 m of each other. (See the Allen Curve above.).
Clarity Consultants
OCTOBER 10, 2021
When it comes to customer confidence in your brand, it isn’t your products or services that make the biggest difference. Instead, your employees are the largest contributing factor. If you are wondering why your employees have the biggest influence on customer confidence, here’s what you need to know. Customer Confidence Is Built By Touch-Points. The Customer Experience.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 15, 2021
MBA consulting recruiting season starts every fall. For a few falls now, in my capacity as a volunteer career advisor, I have had to uncomfortably tell incredibly intelligent MBA students from highly respected schools that they are utterly ill-informed about entering the consulting profession. It isn’t that they did anything wrong per-se or that they suffered from a less than stellar academic instruction.
Brimstone Consulting
OCTOBER 11, 2021
You need to take action to ensure that your new hires don’t become next year’s culture escapees. So, you just found wonderful new hires from other companies in your industry. Congratulations…and beware, these new hires are part of the “Great Resignation.” They left their last company looking for change, and if you don’t provide it, they’ll leave your company too.
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Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 13, 2021
You're a leader in the organization. And you're supposed to be at another meeting, that started 15 minutes ago. Your previous meeting ran long, so now you're late. But the conversation you just had? That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, it prevented a customer meltdown. Or something equally important.). At least, the decisions you made earlier seemed quite important then.
On the Brink Podcast
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Hear how great execution is most often the key to growth. At times I have the pleasure of meeting interesting people who bring their breadth of experiences to share with our audience. Jim Cornehlsen is just that type of person. We met through a networking group and found our interests so overlapping that we kept our conversations going. What did we talk about?
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 15, 2021
5G networks are a promising wireless technology that online bookmakers and sports betting operators should factor into their business strategy. Once implemented, this technology offers the potential to serve more sports betting enthusiasts. It will also enable new product development with sportsbooks being able to offer customers new services – such as multiplayer and interactive experiences – and more ways to engage customers, including offering access to more sports, up to the minute sports n
The Fearless Marketer
OCTOBER 11, 2021
When it comes to writing about your professional services, there’s a good chance you don’t know what exactly to write about and how to structure your writing. Essentially, what you write should answer 10 key questions a prospective client has about how you can help them. Your written materials will be most effective if it answers those questions as clearly and as concisely as possible.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 13, 2021
They bore the brunt of mission-critical tasks like supporting employees and advancing DEI. But they aren’t getting recognized or rewarded for it.
The Source
OCTOBER 14, 2021
The rollercoaster of the last 18 months has taught us a lot about the importance of thought leadership. While the headline news is that clients of professional services firms have increasingly turned to thought leadership to help them navigate their way through the challenges they face, we wanted to dig beneath these headlines to investigate the needs and preferences of different client groups.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Kyle Duford is the Executive Creative Director and Agency Director of The Brand Leader, a creative branding agency specializing in strategy and design. To learn more about The Brand Leader and the work the agency is doing, visit their website: The Brand Leader. Previously to The Brand Leader, he worked for brands like Nike and Dr Martens. A former magazine editor, he also spent a bunch of his career with a focus on the fashion, outdoor and sports industries through the eCommerce and digital lens
Chad Barr
OCTOBER 13, 2021
We often find out the most interesting things about our clients and colleagues as our relationships and conversations become deeper and more personal as the years of working together increase. For example, I learned many years ago, one of my successful consulting clients is also an accomplished and published poet, after having moved on to a new field of work after many years as an English instructor.
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Jerry Fletcher
OCTOBER 9, 2021
What is your credibility index? If you are a consultant it is a pretty good bet that you have a profile on Linked In. How credible does that profile make you to your prospects? Here’s a simple way to evaluate that will take just minutes. What to consider. People, I’ve been told, do not give you a lot of time when they come across your information on any page on the internet.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 12, 2021
If priorities feel fuzzy, progress feels slow, and social interactions feel somewhat awkward right now, here’s what leaders can do.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Uwe Dockhorn is a Lifestyle Liberator who brings results to high achievers & their Very Important Partners (VIPs) without burning out.
Peter Stark
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Throughout our careers as consultants, we’ve coached many leaders who’ve struggled to build followership with either bosses, direct reports, or peers who don’t have a high level of respect for their contributions to the organization as a leader. Some of the concerns or complaints regarding these leaders have included: Not appearing to work as hard or add as much value as other members of the team.
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Seth Godin Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2021
“What evidence would you need to see to change your mind?” The honest answer to this question is usually: “I need a new story that’s more immediate, more vivid and most of all, more culturally aligned than the one I have now.” It took humans 100,000 years to invent the scientific method. Before that, we lived our lives by stories, examples and the urgent.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 14, 2021
If you have the flexibility to decide when to come into the office, these four questions can help you figure out your routine.
Martinka Consulting
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Did you ever do something you haven’t done in a while and pay the price? Maybe an exercise routine that leaves you with sore muscles? Or having a meeting at a place known for their pastries, having one (which you rarely do), and paying the price? Yeah, I did the latter recently. Or what about doing things you’ve never done before? Maybe it’s skydiving, or scuba diving, or entering a run or bike ride much longer than you’ve ever done before.
Consulthon
OCTOBER 10, 2021
Over the last week, which was week 3 since I started my www.cxl.com Growth Marketing course, I broadened my information with regards to Conversion Research and A/B Testing. The two courses served a.
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