Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Do you want to know what executives in world-class companies think about leadership and why they hire consultants and coaches? I have worked on and off with Jim since 1999, first as his Organization Development Consultant at Disney and, more recently, as a sounding board when he retired from his 43-year career. Learn more.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

Betsy Jordyn : So, what I would love to do first, is like just take us back in time, and tell us a little bit about your journey. So, I know that you didn’t just wake up one day and say hey I want to start a consulting business, you’ve been thinking about it for a while. So, take us back to your journey.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

So, why don’t you introduce yourself, and share a little bit more about your business, and how you help your clients. Why are they buying your product and not someone else’s? What kind of messages and leadership style are in the organization that are contributing to that output every week?

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 30, 2020

What is IN is cultivating smart habits that keep you in tune with your market and allow you to respond to them with ease and confidence. If you want to say a big, fat "buh-bye" to the craziness of 2020 and a big hello to having 2021 be the year where your results are totally in FLOW, this video is must-watch. Take Action.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 30, 2020

What is IN is cultivating smart habits that keep you in tune with your market and allow you to respond to them with ease and confidence. If you want to say a big, fat "buh-bye" to the craziness of 2020 and a big hello to having 2021 be the year where your results are totally in FLOW, this video is must-watch. Take Action.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When you do this, you become the virtual direct report of your client. It's how professional services firms work – like your accountant and lawyer. T he Pair of Hands Trap - Impact on Your Income. Hard news – if your network finds sub-contracting opportunities, you're still marketing.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Related Article: "7 Reasons Why Your Client Aren't Getting it When you Write and Talk About What You Do". If you're ready to discover how to talk about what you do in a way that is compelling to your ideal clients, then read on. Clients don't understand, nor do they care about your methodology. This article is for you.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 15, 2019

Thank you so much for taking the time and sharing your experience. Betsy Jordyn : So, before I share more about your business, tell me about you, your background and what led up to you wanting to start your own consulting business. So, Jahaan, welcome. Jahaan Blake : Hi, thank you. Thanks for having me.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

Too few organizations can do that. Here are three suggestions to emulate flow efficiency thinking: Start the project with a cross-functional team that stays together for the entire project. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 3, 2018

A little patience and a lot of value are all it takes to prove your high-dollar consulting worth. I’m really excited to have you come on here, Dauwn, and just share with us your journey and experience along the consulting path. They’re known as a public university with some of the largest fundraising goals out there.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There are three steps that you can take, three very simple actions you can take on a daily basis that will significantly help you to build your business if you’re not already doing something like this. This can also be a habit in your life if you choose to make it one. Let’s get right into it. They already trust you.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, we’re talking again about burnout and the CURE. I’m convinced if you’re a high-achiever, especially a high-achieving woman, the issue isn’t IF burnout will happen to you but when and how. So when we’re bringing home the bacon and frying it up, it tires us at a hormonal level.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 15, 2019

Betsy Jordyn : So really what I want to understand from you cause there’s going to be a lot of people who are in the same boat that you were when we first met who are trying to grow your business. What made you decide to leave your corporate job and start your own consulting business? Rachelle Stone : Sure.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2023

Sherry, a middle manager in a relatively small organization, said, “We can’t plan for an entire quarter at a time. Especially not if your management can't commit to an entire quarter. Pull Planning from Options Sherry's organization appears to need to change everything the next time they plan. What do I do?”

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Organizations spend a lot of time figuring out how to increase employee engagement and may wonder why employee engagement is falling. Unfortunately, we’re seeing exactly that right now in the United States. They’re less likely to leave their jobs. They’re more likely to be innovative and creative.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

I see strategy necessary at these management levels: Organizational strategy, to define the value the organization offers to the employees, customers, and other stakeholders. However, I'll focus on the management strategies now, for the organization and for defining the product. Every organization needs a single overarching strategy.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 22, 2018

There’s three reasons that are quite common, and we’re going to look at those here today. The first reason is that you’re not having a deep and meaningful consulting sales conversation. The first thing is making sure that you’re able to identify … we’ll say and communicate [inaudible 00:01:27] value.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Transcript: We’re going to talk about how to develop a consulting engagement process. It’s a way that you can start to think about how to deliver your consulting services with a lot more structure. You’re reversing the risk. That’s what we’re going to get into right now.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 23, 2017

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. As your business is moving along, you’re seeing growth. As your business is moving along, you’re seeing growth. It can drop.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

In this episode, we talk about how Ron shifted from working in an organization to working for the best ones, the ideal size of a successful consulting firm, and the effective ways to implement changes in your work so that you are attracting only the most ideal clients. Our relationships usually span multiple years.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Age Bias Hurts Your Business I’ll just say it, “Job hunting sucks!” His response, “Okay, but we think someone younger has been immersed in technology.” In this case, I perceive the organization as seeking someone who has recently graduated from a target university between the ages of 24 and 29. The interview ended.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In this episode, we are discussing the importance of maintaining a long-term strategy and vision for your marketing and networking. I think you’ll learn just as much from her insights and experiences as I did in this episode of The Consulting Success Podcast with Mindy Millward. For us, it’s not about size of organization.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These questions are designed to help you get to the root of individual performance problems – which may or not not require training to solve (and help you extend the value of your leadership training contracts.). Is the workplace physically organized? Re-hire for the position. Re-align expectations to measures.

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Makarios Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

There are the toxic superstars: people who produce phenomenally for your company, yet are abrasive to work with. Whatever tough people issues are causing your stomach to churn, here are nine questions to ask to help you tackle the matter and get your business back on track! People problems come in various stripes.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

When electricity came along, there was a swath of industries that were trapped in an old way of thinking. After all, they were in the business of organizing the world’s information. What you were trained to do, what you did yesterday… that’s a gift from your past, not an obligation.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Recruiters are assessing your background, your project experience, and your ability to fit into the company. A structured method to present your response. A common theme I’ve noticed is that we know less about ourselves than we think. Structuring Your Response: The STAR Method. Try to quantify your result.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

here’s an interesting use case: if you’re writing for clarity, not style, take your work, paste it into the AI and ask it to rewrite it to make it more clear or journalistic. There’s really no good reason not to play with it, put it to work and get smart about what’s happening. It’s pretty astonishing.]

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

With a little comprehension of the various levels, an individual can improve the way they think and undertake projects. When upskilling, using the framework could assist in making the knowledge and skills your own. For example, with a higher level of thinking you could complete a more thorough evaluation during a due diligence.

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Chad Barr

JUNE 14, 2023

Have you ever started to craft your next masterpiece only to slam on the brakes? Lack of Inspiration: Combat it by stimulating your mind with creative topics through reading, listening, or engaging with interesting individuals and diverse experiences. Enhance your creative space for a focused work environment.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

Funding Problems In my experience, organizations use several funding models: By project, where they assign a team to a project (or several teams for a program). If your managers want to know “when” for some feature set, they probably want to know when they can expect to stop funding those efforts. Here's the bad news.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 19, 2021

You're a middle or senior manager in an organization trying to hold on in these crazy times. Or your product doesn't work or it has some kind of horrible defect.) Your customers are angry. Your employees are running around, trying to fix the problem. Especially if you think it will embarrass you. What do you say?

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 20, 2022

A well-designed, well-written consulting website instills confidence in your clients. 5 years ago, your clients didn’t care about your consulting website. The idea of generating consulting clients through your website is new — but it’s here to stay. It even instills confidence in you. That’s it. I don’t do anything else.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 13, 2021

It forces you to structure your thinking and the slide deck needs to include the right content as well as being interesting, simple, focused, logical, and compelling. Organize the story flow through messages. Customize the story flow based on your audience. Take a strong stand on your arguments. Matrix Framework.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 11, 2022

It can feel overwhelming at times, especially so as a freshman, but as interview cycles are pushed further up the calendar, and slots become more competitive, thinking about your career early won’t do you any harm. Use this to your advantage! Build out your resume. Make sure your formatting is neat and consistent.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. Instead of going “agile,” I will explore your options for lifecycles and agile approaches in this series. I'll wrap this series up with what you can do if your managers love predicting instead of using feedback loops.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Each of these books is timely, insightful, and one to consider adding to your reading list – and library. And with stories of how traditional companies like Fidelity Investments, Walmart, and B2W have adopted them, he offers a practical toolbox for applying them to your business, starting today. Think Again by Adam Grant (2021).

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I ask the question: How little can we do to satisfy our needs? I apply that thinking to the backlog, the roadmaps, the feature sets, everything. I think that way for management, also. They collaborate as managers at various levels of the organization.

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