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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Regrets to Leadership Risks? However, in leadership, I feel we always risk something. After all, I have been there — I owned and operated a storefront business and served as an executive for organizations of various types throughout my career. I feel a kindred connection with those who own or operate organizations.

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What Skills Do Firms Want in Aspiring Consultants?

Tom Spencer

Being a consultant is no easy feat, and almost every successful consultant is characterised by competent mastery of the following 5 key skills — problem solving, leadership, data and quantitative skills, teamwork, and communication.

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7 Traits that Make You Instantly Credible with Senior Leaders

Consulting Matters

Understands how the culture and power networks operate within the client system. Helps clients anticipate the Customer/Client, Employee, and Financial/Operational impact of business decisions. Consulting Skills/Process Leadership. Skillfully use a variety of presentation media and formats. Political Savvy.

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence suggests that an academic background in a field like psychology enhances executive coaching outcomes such as the client's self-awareness and leadership performance. An excellent virtual coach has the ability to: Operate the tools and functions of collaborative technology. Boyce, Center for Creative Leadership.

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Finite Attention Spans and Employee Agility Driving Corporate Training Trends

Clarity Consultants

L&D leaders have been instrumental in helping employers and employees pivot to pandemic protocols and navigate both remote and hybrid operations and corporate culture. When viewed in the context of an unstable or uncertain job market, continuous learning is essential to creating and maintaining an agile workforce and operations.

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Consultants Accelerate Results for Online Business Ventures

Business Consulting Agency

Consultants facilitate the seamless integration of e-commerce platforms, enabling entrepreneurs to leverage user-friendly interfaces, secure payment gateways, and robust inventory management systems to optimize online business operations. Consultants accelerate results especially through digital marketing and promotions.

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What Great Leaders Do: Engaging Employees in a Crisis

Rick Conlow

Watch this short but powerful leadership training video as Rick shares what great leaders do differently. In this leadership motivation clip you will hear three examples of what the best leaders do and learn how you can adapt that for what you do. He played to the media and threatened to move his operations.