Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. On the other hand, consultants who do project work should have résumés that clearly reflect the types of projects they have done.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Soon after I published Manage Your Project Portfolio , I wrote an article, Project Portfolio Decisions–Decisions For Now. I went to a conference and saw someone was speaking about the project portfolio. Or, have your manager buy it for you if you can't afford it.” Plagiarism in Writing. They could afford it.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 14, 2017

The first article in this series about how to optimize LinkedIn profiles explains how to create an excellent first impression with a photo, background image, and a succinct “tag line” to summarize your brand and expertise. I had 18 endorsements for Mergers & Acquisitions even though I’ve only worked on one M&A project.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When leaders solicit ideas from others outside the traditionally involved management team, it improves the creativity of the ideas and reinforces that leaders value employees. Ideas are tagged and compared through comparison sorts. Solid project management processes can help leaders avoid the trap of over-analysis.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Past consulting projects of the consultant are what matters most. Don't use more than 25% of your free cash flow for a consulting project to leave enough room for other growth related investments. If not, you can spread out the project over 2-3 months. You could easily stretch this project over 2 months. If yes, great.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2018

The question is, what is the best way to develop skills and grow professionally without the big price tags that come with graduate and postgraduate courses. Creating your own projects is a good practice to put what you have studied and read into practice. Below are five favourite tips for skill development at zero cost. Read Resources.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

No one can tell anything about project or product progress. And, the managers can fix this if they collaborate on the solution. This image (from Agile and Lean Program Management ) shows how a program manager might think of the architecture for an integrated system product. I take the management perspective.).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2018

Practice time management together. He’s also learned how to plan ahead to create balance and dedicate time to think strategically , and he’s picked up some other time management tricks. Therefore, as I read each book, I tag passages that I’d like to go back to later. You and Your Team Series. .”

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Of course politicians never want to put a realistic price tag on their pet projects. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Software automatically tags the location of the products down to the individual store and analyzes the images—items such as meat and produce—to gauge quality differences. link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2014

Hootsuite – Hootsuite helps you improve productivity by managing all of your social networks within one area, the “dashboard” which is designed for you and your team to engage from one simple interface. eFile Cabinet – eFile Cabinet is the very best solution in electronic document management and paperless office software.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 17, 2019

Having completed CEMS, an international master in management degree, with many of its alumni entering the realm of consulting, how did you find yourself in blockchain, and what was it that intrigued you to start participating in this space? While completing my management degree, I worked in strategy consulting like you did.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

Moreover, you’ll want to set up and manage your business in a way that makes accounting easier as well as taking advantage of valuable tax deductions. Get in the habit of tracking your time , even if you bill by the project. We all know that image matters, so putting things in place to be professional will make a difference.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Unfortunately, the history of IT investments in most organizations is far from stellar: Research over the years suggests that the overall failure rate of IT projects is around 70%. This tool seeks to get managers to identify and map all the changes that they will be required to make if expected benefits and outcomes are going to be delivered.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Plan for shorter projects. Use rolling wave planning to account for new information as the project proceeds. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. 1,2 and so on.

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Prudent Pedal

MARCH 27, 2020

Here are my Work and Personal lists: Work Manage business-related issues created by the crisis. Google Tag Manager: I stumbled across Loves Data on YouTube. Completing my Winter Projects” list-Creating a LONG Social-Distancing list was really unnecessary given the fact that my Winter list was still incomplete.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2010

It is clear this population needs quality, nutritious food and the donor was willing to provide it - for the right project. The non-profit's executive director was certain the project needed $27,000 and was reluctant to push for more. The project's purpose, scope and numbers show much more is needed - $77,000 to be exact.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

Combine this information with the past performance meta-data tracked across your business capture, contracts, and projects organizations to gain powerful insights into your value proposition. Imagine giving your management leadership team an early view of the pricing before the RFP is ever released! Measure pricing competitiveness.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

The key is how we manage our biases. In a recent performance management summit we ran with over 100 large organizations, 57% of them said they weren’t taking any actions to address bias in performance reviews. Research has found that several biases come up again and again when managers are evaluating a team member.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all. Organizations can encourage managers to talk with their direct reports about what aspects of work they find meaningful, and get managers to share their perspectives with employees, too. The Dollars (and Sense) of Meaningful Work.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

For example, you might say, “I want to manage large projects. When Brittney returned to work, she was initially nervous to ask her manager for more flexibility and a slightly reduced schedule, which she felt she needed to have more time at home. I’m at my best when I’m getting important things done.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

For many companies, the price tag and the commitment of resources are too high a hurdle. Allstate Business assigned a team of managers and subject-matter experts to the project to figure out the “taxonomy” of the words, phrases, and data that ABIe would require to answer all of those questions.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 26, 2009

Consider not only your short-term money needs, but the long-term effect of the funding, and your capacity to take on the project. Can you realistically manage it with what they allow for overhead? Tags: Nonprofit funding stimulus federal. And what will you do when the money goes away?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 18, 2009

For those larger organizations, who are able to properly train, manage, and use these new volunteers, this is a wonderful resource. Taproot has had to scale back on their recruitment of professionals: “It’s like a Greek tragedy,” according to Lindsay Firestone, who manages pro bono projects for Taproot. can be a mixed blessing.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 13, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Filed under the tag Consulting, not Bitterness. A lot more firms are beginning to run these projects themselves with the use of independent consultants and contractors.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 13, 2006

DonorsChoose a new web site that connects online donors directly to classroom projects that need private support. Teachers post their projects along with a budget. DonorsChoose vets the projects and posts them to the web site. The potential for connecting web users directly with projects that need funding is incredible.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

GitHub is a social networking site for web developers to collaborate on open-source code management. How talent management is changing. And simply collecting data is not enough – to be used, data has to be presented usefully. One potential model is GitHub. Anyone in tech will recognize this grid as a GitHub profile.

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Management Consulted

JULY 31, 2016

And we still had to fly out the next day – me to speak in New York, my husband to work on a real estate project in California. What is the price tag on doing the right thing? The post Thinking Like a Consultant: Paralysis by Analysis appeared first on Management Consulted. The drive got us there at the same time.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 6, 2010

Because of the focus on communications and transparency we managed to avoid the pitfalls of too-quick a transition and the potential jarring effect that could have had on staff and operations. Each time is a little different, and the lessons learned help guide the next project, and then there's more to learn again.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 18, 2007

Saul address this as well, and talks about how all staff have to hold a piece of the evaluation puzzle: “Measurement is a culture, not a project,” Saul says, and nonprofits should work on measurement within their existing business processes, keep it simple at first, and make it positive, not punitive. It would be great if they all did.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 10, 2006

They provide food and clothing to over 500 families each month, run a small school that educates a cohort of 12 children, along with ESL, literacy, and adult education classes for their mothers, offer shower and laundry facilities, a toy give-away program, a community garden project, and emergency vouchers for housing, medicine, and gasoline.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Our mission is to simplify multi-project resource management, help project teams be maximum efficient, and let companies grow by intaking more orders and delivering their initiatives faster and cheaper. A general list of the project team’s tasks ordered by priority. Personal Task List. Task List.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

A wiki is a knowledge management system that: Is digital and Is updated and edited by its own audience. But given the above (growing volume of information), you as the CEO or manager can't update all information yourself. Notion Notion is a multifunctional collaboration, documentation and project management software.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

After many years as Executive Director for a regional non-profit, Christina created Sage Strategies, a management consulting firm (www.SageStrategies.org). The firm specializes in strategic planning, board development, financial management, program planning and evaluation and grants management. An old non-profit.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Mergers require enormous amounts of energy from the boards and senior management of both organizations, which can distract them from focusing on their core work. If/When my current project ends in success, I will officially be beating the odds. Tags: Nonprofit mergers foundations. The alternative is to let the marketplace work.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis began to work on the issue as a side project. Devoid of resources for data collection, they tagged along on L’Oréal roadshows, collecting skin tone measurements from thousands of women of color across the country. Today Atis manages L’Oréal’s Women of Color Lab, in Clark, New Jersey.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

“You’re always moderating yourself,” agrees a Latina executive , who feels Latinas “are always tagged with the emotional thing. ” When Latinos repress who they are in order to rise into management, incoming or up-and-coming Latino talent is motivated to look elsewhere for employment.

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