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How to Build Your Business on the Best of Your Career with Lori Smith

Consulting Matters

She had created a unique role for herself as an initiative and project integrator that combined her finance background, six-sigma process improvement and project management training, and natural relationship-building skills. She found herself at crossroads, wondering what was next for her career.

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How to Discover and Own Your Consulting Superpower: Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Because it’s really focused so externally on how to get clients, or how they money, or what their earning potential is.

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Overcoming Entrepreneurial Burnout with Rachelle Stone and Lori Smith

Consulting Matters

She combines her financial expertise with operations, project management, and process improvement to help clients achieve their growth goals faster and harmoniously among stakeholders.

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Why you need a company wiki (and how to build it effectively)

Asamby Consulting

This articles outlines how to build a company wiki: Understand if and why you need a wiki Define the goals for your wiki Choose the best tool to house your wiki Define the structure Start creating and compiling content Keep your wiki used and up to date Why do I need a wiki for my company? You need a wiki.

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Determine the ROI of hiring a small business operations consultant

Asamby Consulting

What is small business operations consulting Small business operations consultants are experts in how to run a company. Here are some examples for the field of process improvement. If you pay a consultant the same 5,000 USD for that process improvement, you'd have a 400% ROI right away. Provided you have the leads.

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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk. I understand how people feel caught in a bind. However, I expect payment in money when people ask me to create new IP.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. I provide added focus on the process in that post, which involves tacky team members, this does include the leadership. Managers tend not know how to work within a team, and their people skills are lacking.