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Climbing the Competency Ladder

Tom Spencer

4 Stages of Learning to Help your Projects and Career. The partner will likely be able to give a brief, informative, and insightful answer due to their depth of understanding of the topic area. If you are working on becoming a subject matter expert, then reaching the final tier on the ladder is likely your goal.

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Three Reasons Hobbies Translate Into Productivity

Comatch

Grappling with complex topics, meeting demanding deadlines, and working long hours are all part and parcel of life as a consultant. So, while there’s no doubt that consulting can be a highly rewarding career, it’s easy to see how this lifestyle could lead to burnout. .

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Critical Analysis Skills can put you a Step Ahead

Tom Spencer

If you lack a strong background and understanding of a particular subject area, reading a couple of background papers to familiarise yourself with the topic can help you to get up to speed. If time is a constraint, you may sometimes have to simply state that you are unable to give an adequate judgement.

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Independent Consultants: Excellence Begins Here

Successful Independent Consulting

Along the way, one of my projects was a career game-changer. Conversely, I’ve seen independent careers flourish with seemingly little effort—without websites, brochures, or blogs. My sticky notes have since migrated to an Excel spreadsheet with more than 60 topics, and I keep adding more.

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Learning without training

The Management Centre

There are thousands of podcasts on all kinds of topics. By listening to people speak on topics, you can engage with the subject in a more interactive way. We like it because the guests are very diverse, so you can find topics that you are interested in, plus learn about new sectors.

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Three Lessons Learned from Writing a Book

Women in Consulting

Most of my adult life, I thought that I had to be an undisputed expert in a topic before I could write a book about it. It made me smarter, at least about my topic. The learning didn’t stop when the book was published, as I continued to talk with people about the subject. That’s not entirely right. How about you?

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Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for consultants

QEmploy

In order to give you a head start we have compiled a list of 60 must-listen IT podcasts covering every possible subject. Furthermore, they explore every possible subject, including coveted topics in the IT industry. Among the explored topics: Cloud Computing, Open source, AppDev, Serverless and more. All About Android.