Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: change management for IT projects. An individual, team, departments, or the whole company? (Try What was the industry?

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The Management Centre

JUNE 8, 2020

Accelerate learning to help your team through the challenges. Some organisations have restructured their teams and services to meet emerging and emergency needs. Team members are living alone, cut off from their social network. Here are five ways in which you can boost learning in your team: 1.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 31, 2020

Managing a remote team of people – who are not sitting anywhere near you and may not even be in the same time zone – can be a huge challenge. How do you make sure out of sight isn’t out of mind, especially when you might have been used to seeing at least some of your team on a regular basis? Make it frequent.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Many of my clients feel stuck with their component teams. That's because the people are organized in component teams. As the organization grows, so does the number of component teams. The more component teams they have, the more complexity they create in the teams, in the product, and in delivery.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 8, 2020

Accelerate learning to help your team through the challenges. Some organisations have restructured their teams and services to meet emerging and emergency needs. Team members are living alone, cut off from their social network. Here are five ways in which you can boost learning in your team: 1.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 8, 2020

Accelerate learning to help your team through the challenges. Some organisations have restructured their teams and services to meet emerging and emergency needs. Team members are living alone, cut off from their social network. Here are five ways in which you can boost learning in your team: 1.

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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. Or, have your manager buy it for you if you can't afford it.” I first wrote about feature sets in Manage It! ” That's when he glanced at my name tag. Plagiarism in Writing. We have choices.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

The proposal price is important enough to get much of the attention of most company leadership teams. Does your company place emphasis only on finishing the pricing or do you elevate the pricing team involvement and importance? Share your proposal pipeline with the pricing team. What is the overall average labor rate?

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 10, 2020

You cannot put a price tag on these parts of the body. The Twins’ managers talked to David to find out who he was. 500 on his high school baseball team, and he also played middle guard in football. The Twins asked him, “Why are you trying out– you aren’t going to make the team?” Your heart?

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 2, 2016

I often get asked the following question: What should we include in our organization’s crisis management plan? So the first section within your playbook should define this criteria and provide your team with the tools and information they need to make this determination in the heat of the moment. 1- Activation guidelines.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

In America, and other Western countries, senior executives often hire management consultants for strategic advice. Given that consulting advice can sometimes sound like a statement of the obvious, albeit very well power-pointed, and tends to come with a shockingly high price tag, you would be forgiven for asking “why!?”

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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. Consider adding a “tag line” below your name in the résumé header. Avoid phrases like “assisted with” and “was part of a team that.” If not, omit this section.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Once you understand the different levels of analytical comfort and expertise that exist within your HR team, you can determine how to hire and develop each type of HR professional. If you do not have analytically-savvy people in your team, hiring a few will help to establish an analytical culture.

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Women in Consulting

MAY 5, 2016

I was working with one of the teams, Neura , and they mentioned IFTTT as if everyone knew about it. You can choose any tags that make sense to you. FollowUpThen is another web service (so it works with any phone) that allows you to manage your InBox like a boss. IFTTT stands for If This, Then That. I’d never heard of them.

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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. You and Your Team Series. Therefore, as I read each book, I tag passages that I’d like to go back to later.

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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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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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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

People get tagged as “talented” when they fit in (or pretend to). Real change requires understanding three dilemmas about “talent management” systems: They are tribal. Talent thus looks a lot more like currying favor than any deeply analytic meritocracy, even when it comes to senior team ascension.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

You and Your Team Series. ” Hudson said that Venafi solved that problem by functioning like our immune system, which relies on our cells’ tags “to identify what is self and what isn’t — what to trust and what to destroy.” Presentations. Good Presentations Need to Make People Uncomfortable.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Crisis communication is one of the most important aspects of your crisis management. In fact, whom you communicate with in a crisis, along with when and how you communicate with them, can mean the difference between successful crisis management and crisis management failure. Step 1: Identify your stakeholders.

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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. Her example inspired me to share my own lists, both Work and Personal, with my prudent readers. Perhaps you will share what’s on your list to inspire others, as well.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

Then I offered three suggestions for teams in any lifecycle in Effective Agility: Three Suggestions to Change How You and Your Team Work, Part 2. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

You and Your Team Series. 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. Making Work More Meaningful.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

You and Your Team Series. 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. A conversation with your boss and colleagues.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

We know that when IT projects fail, it is usually not because the technology didn’t work (although this can sometimes be the case), but because the changes required at an organizational and employee level weren’t managed effectively. To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Below are the five steps that we believe companies must take to ensure that their teams can thrive and have a sense of belonging despite being geographically distributed. Distributed teams can detect half-hearted commitment. So for the inside sales teams, we still needed to be distributed, but distributed in a co-located fashion.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This blended digital-plus-human touch approach to service and support is at the center of the outsourced omnichannel customer experience management created by Teleperformance, the industry’s worldwide leader, present in 76 countries. TP BOT is also able to support the work of agents, as they work with customers.

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Peter Stark

MAY 13, 2019

Whether they’re one-on-one or team meetings, do your best to keep your devices out of your view and only answer crucial calls, texts, or emails. Many smartphone apps come with settings to automatically alert you when you have a new notification: a Facebook tag, a retweet, or maybe even a LinkedIn update. Coaching and counseling.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 6, 2010

Because we knew we had an ambitious schedule we committed early to frequent meetings of the negotiations team, open and frequent communication out to the full board and staff of each organization, and to bringing together the implementation team and planning process even before the final agreements were completed.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

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. Atis and her tiny team knocked down the enduring obstacles and solved a dilemma that had existed for generations. is a lot like Atis.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. This new product line generated $104 million in sales during its first year.

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Using a Big Data Discovery platform and methodology, within 10 weeks the team was able to show more than $70M in savings from analysis from a subset of the locations and could analyze the data at high speeds (e.g. 300,000 locations, approximately 20 machines per location, 2-300 data points per machine, and 45 millisecond sensor sample rates).

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

They had a group interview, which assessed your team working skills. Now, after five years in the industry I still keep on asking my manager questions so I can deliver something on par with my manager’s expectations. A lot of the people actually keep on calling me really, really weird names, even though I have a name tag.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

Company Wiki As your organization grows, there is the need to make information available to the whole team. A wiki is a knowledge management system that: Is digital and Is updated and edited by its own audience. That change needs to be reflected in the information you provide your team. You need a wiki.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Dr. Niazi’s team has found that inviting patients to report on a standard set of outcomes facilitates the discussion of topics that may be overlooked or are difficult to talk about. The team used PRO data to identify factors associated with suicidal ideation, such as severity of depression or current substance abuse.

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