Tom Spencer

JANUARY 7, 2022

I believe this is especially the case with ‘soft skills’, a term which is often mocked as an empty excuse for applying to undersubscribed university courses. Nevertheless, a case study of the IT consulting segment can readily showcase the real-life application of soft skills. And this is where soft skills come into the picture.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

JUNE 11, 2017

Why you should become a consultant. I speak to a lot of people who think about becoming a consultant. But as a consultant you can shape the kind of work you do. These days the only projects I work on are projects that I’m interested in; and this is what can happen for you too once you make the move to consultancy.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Include a basic project plan in your consultancy proposal. Here’s what to cover.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

There’s a lot of writing to be done as a consultant – it’s a core consulting skill. Over the years I’ve heard many stories from my clients about their frustration with the poor quality of reports delivered by [other] consultants. Now you’re a consultant it’s time to go back to basics and simply say it how it is.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Being a solo consultant doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself. Of course, you need to take responsibility for all the core consulting tasks – those tasks that require your high-level expertise, your thinking, your credibility. In fact, you shouldn’t. But for a host of other things, get help.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

There are days as a consultant when things are going wonderfully. And you pat yourself on the back for making such a smart decision by making the move to consultancy. Of course, you absolutely need to be flexible and do what you can to support any shifts in the project. Seriously this changed my consulting life!

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

There’s a lot of writing to be done as a consultant – it’s a core consulting skill. Over the years I’ve heard many stories from my clients about their frustration with the poor quality of reports delivered by [other] consultants. Now you’re a consultant it’s time to go back to basics and simply say it how it is.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 27, 2018

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn: Well hello there everybody it's Betsy Jordyn of the Consultants Institute, and I am so excited to finally be interviewing Michael Zipursky of Consulting Success. So you have your own business consulting success. Do you have a consulting background yourself? Zipursky: Oh, wow.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Include a basic project plan in your consultancy proposal. Here’s what to cover.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

For those of us who’ve moved from the public sector into consulting, thinking of ourselves as a ‘business’ might be counter-intuitive, and the concept of ‘developing a brand’ for our business, daunting. ace consulting] or very common [e.g. john smith consulting’] it’s likely to be pretty cheap.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If your small business is a consultancy practice, then you’ll very likely be working in a project-based environment – pitching for and conducting short-medium term projects. Managing project scope is one of those tricky issues that tends to keep consultants up at night. Here are five tips to help you to manage those expectations.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

MAY 7, 2018

When you first start out as a consultant the prospect of having to sell your services can be daunting. And if you think this is something that only affects you, then you might be surprised to hear that a lot of my Solo Consultant Masterclass students have been in the same boat. Pick up the phone, head to your email, or go to LinkedIn.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Being a solo consultant doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself. Of course, you need to take responsibility for all the core consulting tasks – those tasks that require your high-level expertise, your thinking, your credibility. My free 3-part video series will get you on the path to becoming a consultant.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

There are days as a consultant when things are going wonderfully. And you pat yourself on the back for making such a smart decision by making the move to consultancy. Of course, you absolutely need to be flexible and do what you can to support any shifts in the project. Seriously this changed my consulting life!

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

MAY 7, 2018

When you first start out as a consultant the prospect of having to sell your services can be daunting. And if you think this is something that only affects you, then you might be surprised to hear that a lot of my Solo Consultant Masterclass students have been in the same boat. Pick up the phone, head to your email, or go to LinkedIn.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

JULY 3, 2017

But all that changes when you become a consultant. Once you step into consulting, being out of your comfort zone is your new normal. Once you step into consulting, being out of your comfort zone is your new normal. As a consultant you’ll constantly work on projects where you are unfamiliar with the content area.

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Consulting Success

MARCH 20, 2017

These days, I see and speak with many consultants who want Olympic-level results in their businesses, but their commitment doesn’t match their ambition. Many consultants get excited about some new technology or tool. The more action you take, the more momentum you build. However, if you have a plan in place, stick with it.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

For those of us who’ve moved from the public sector into consulting, thinking of ourselves as a ‘business’ might be counter-intuitive, and the concept of ‘developing a brand’ for our business, daunting. ace consulting] or very common [e.g. john smith consulting’] it’s likely to be pretty cheap.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Today I want to talk with you about a mindset that is incredibly important for established consultants. It becomes very important when your consulting business is taking off, when things are going well, when you have plenty of clients and plenty of opportunities surrounding you. Transcript. The mindset is what I call Foot on the Pedal.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service. In 2009, the recession from 2008 forced me to pivot, sell the business, and reenter consulting full-time. That’s a lot of bending!

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Set the Stage for Increased Focus While it can be tempting to move to action, change management consulting experts know that you need to properly set the stage for change to be successful. Celebrate the Small Wins Some goals may seem so far in the future that it can be hard to maintain focus and momentum.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 5, 2021

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. This month our consultants are joined by guest blogger Sophia Moreau. Sophia is an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion consultant and a multi-award-winning campaigner. What’s next?

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Of course, the best advice to help you become a strong presenter is to practice, practice, practice. Our learning and development, and creative consultants combine strategic insight with tactical know-how to enable you to keep the momentum moving forward on projects, goals, and initiatives. Practice in front of people.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people. The post Plan, then adjust appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. Keep on Top of Change.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 12, 2021

Ultimately, customers feel this momentum too. These teams don’t last forever, of course, but it’s a great learning experience to be on a team where every member trusts all of the others—where the entire team is united and aligned toward a goal. The post Build Trust to Lead appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 7, 2015

Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, once summed up consulting interviews perfectly when she said, “The first rule of any game is to know you’re in one.”. In the research you’ve been doing into the wild world of management consulting, you should have noticed how important the case interview is on your road to a job offer.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2014

Via translation from Les Echos, please consider Socialist MPs Threaten a Vote of No Confidence on Account of Valls Nearly a hundred of Socialist deputies signed a document calling for political change of course and threaten a vote of no confidence in the government on Tuesday.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2018

The Random marketing paradigm is not very effective because it doesn’t gain a lot of momentum. Random programs or services are generalized consulting, coaching or training programs. “I I offer management consulting and training to corporations.” And now, of course, I’m bending over backward to deliver on that promise.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

We are a universal, global consulting firm, implying that in principle we serve the range of issues on the senior agenda across all industries in most geographies. We must maintain or grow the business in a substantive way and sustain or build momentum around investments across multiple years, and make the appropriate tradeoffs.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

The reason strategy execution is often glossed over by even the most astute strategy consultants is because primarily it’s not a strategy challenge. As you think about who might be the appropriate people, ask the questions: Who has the greatest capacity to affect the forward momentum of the arrow? It’s a human behavior one.

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Nash Consulting

JUNE 29, 2022

Although these may move the engagement dial in the right direction, organizations often find the momentum short-lived or altogether ineffective. Learn how Nash Consulting helps organizations improve employee engagement.) A leader whom one of our consultants worked with believed he really understood this concept. And guess what?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Similarly, almost 75% of our change management consulting clients report having experienced some form of change fatigue in the last year. Explain the system you will put in place to monitor the change initiative all along the way and to make course adjustments as needed to keep on track. Regularly Evaluate Progress.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2018

We also found that diversity had gained momentum as a topic in more than 70% of the enterprises surveyed, especially in developing economies. Of course, the correlations we observed are not guarantees that human diversity will drive innovation.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

How to build up your portfolio, keep your momentum going, and find the critical work-life balance. Description: On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. Transitioning from Employee to Consultant. is the magic hour for her most effective work.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

Such experience comes in handy in managing other third-party service providers such as bankers, accountants, and consultants. And when the complexity of the particular deal exceeds the expertise of the lawyer on the team, she can play the savvy procurer of legal services, knowing how to target efforts and limit costs.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

MARCH 12, 2015

I can’t even tell you what mine are anymore… A Strengths Consultant came in to work with us and the buzz was in the air for a while, but then that was it. Of course they do. To do this, our consultants are continually creating multiple entry points that deliver our proven Strengths Model of Learning, Leveraging and Leading.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

“I want to hear about work, of course, but first tell me how Deniz and the girls are doing,” Sophie said. “Of course, and I coached him through it. Part of my job is to change the FDM way—keep the good, of course, but move us into the future. “We just can’t lose momentum. “What?

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