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Actions to take now to help you lead through the COVID-19 crisis, navigate change, and emerge ready for the future. While the impact and magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic vary depending on the sector, business model, and geography, we are all experiencing a crisis of momentous proportion. MORE
Leaders should be asking themselves and their organization, “what new normal should we create?”. Morela Hernandez, Associate Professor at the Darden School of Business, asks – “ What new normal should we create ?” MORE
CASE STUDY. Brimstone worked side-by-side with a large pharmacy benefits supplier to regain sustainable growth in its public sector business, which serves federal, state, and local agencies of all types. DOWNLOAD. Results. MORE
I know you did not sign up for this current situation, but you did sign up for leadership. When you signed up for leadership, you made the choice to lead. Right now, you need to lead. . MORE
CASE STUDY. The beauty and personal care division of a global packaging company increased sales by aligning the leadership team, establishing operating mechanisms, and establishing accountability. MORE
Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. 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. MORE
We are not just adjusting to a new way of working, we are adjusting to a new way of life – one that is rapidly changing. . As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, more and more people are working from home. MORE
On Friday, March 27, the “US overtook Italy and China as the country with the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases ,” reads my CNN newsfeed. MORE
CASE STUDY. Revenue increased by 34 times. Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. MORE
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming how we work – and live. More than ever, it is important that we come together to help and to support each other. Here are articles you may find helpful when leading and through crisis and uncertain times. Leadership. MORE
Many of your consulting firm’s prospects are caught in the eddies of crisis and battling to stay afloat. While they appreciate your relationship-building calls, unfortunately, they’re too preoccupied to fully engage in deep conversations with you. MORE
351 What could be more discouraging for you and your consulting firm than promoting a fantastic solution… that prospects and clients don’t adopt? Ask the inventors of the 1964 AT&T Picturephone what they think about the novelty of Zoom calls!) You can overcome that problem. MORE
263 A lot of consultants are hired for their expertise in a certain field and their familiarity with specific subject matters or jargon, but one of the more underrepresented aspects of consulting is building mastery over oneself. MORE
Agile strategy can transform your organization. MORE
Move from “handling the crisis” to “moving beyond the crisis.” . “I I feel like I am in an eternal Wednesday,” a friend told me last week. MORE
A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. It has been just over three months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. MORE
Business consultancy relies on your ability to have your audience believe that you can help them scale their businesses. An irresistible consulting sales presentation can be a powerful tool to deliver that impact. MORE
The #1 FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) among independent consultants involves business development. Will I be able to find enough work? How can I develop a steady pipeline of leads? I don’t know how to do sales! MORE
You’re swimming in a vast sea of stressful news and, given today’s reality, you’re well within your rights to feel anxious, nervous and uncertain about how your consulting firm should proceed. MORE
Together, we need to step up to denounce racism and injustice with one voice. I am heartsick over the death of George Floyd. MORE
These days, maintaining physical distance preserves your health and protects those around you. News Flash: Mental and emotional distance between you and your business bolsters your health, happiness, and the success of your consulting firm. All entrepreneurs tangle themselves in their businesses. MORE
287 Aligning your senior leadership team will help drive the results needed to move your organization forward through recovery. The alignment of the senior leadership team impacts growth, performance, profitability, and the ability of an organization to navigate change and disruption. MORE
Placing Focus on the Future: An interview with Mark Cross and Randy Kates. With economies reopening, leaders need to focus on protecting their business and their employees so they can successfully accelerate through recovery and focus on the future. Last week I sat down with Mark Cross and Randy Kates to hear their thoughts on what actions leaders need to be taking. Mark is a Senior Partner at Brimstone and a former executive at Kimberly-Clark and MeadWestvaco. MORE
A practical framework to help you lead – and succeed. I am thrilled to announce the publication of our first book – The Core 4: Harness Four Core Drivers to Accelerate Your Organization. MORE
CASE STUDY. The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider. MORE
Leaders who recognize our new reality as an opportunity will be able to accelerate their organizations through crisis to recovery faster than those who don’t. . MORE
You’ve told your consulting clients the keys to success, and you’ve reminded them. More than once. By the way, you’ve also made these core principles clear in your articles and webinars. We’re talking about the fundamentals you communicate to virtually every one of your consulting firm’s clients. MORE
250 Great change leaders empower others. To create an unstoppable, energized team and enterprise—you can’t just tell the rest of the organization what to do. Instead, leaders are clear with the organization about what success looks like, what change is necessary to achieve it, and why it needs to happen. MORE
People look at adversities as mere problems that hold us back from getting to where we want to be. But really, these obstacles and challenges are what build us as better people. MORE
Leaders need to act now to establish flex time and remote work policies and guidelines. Fifty-seven percent of employers are now offering flex time , up from 39% at the end of March. At the same time, 62% of employed Americans are working from home. MORE
Consulting is a two-way transaction. While people know this, not many take it to heart. A consultant goes beyond merely telling their clients what to do; rather, they listen and build trust in one another. MORE
With stiff online competition, one of the ways you could rise above is by showing up at the top of search engines. Nevertheless, this goal has been proven by many to be really tough to achieve. While that is the case, it does not mean it is impossible. In fact, in this episode, Michael Zipursky. MORE
Pricing your consulting services hourly is one of the worst ways to charge your clients. You only have so many hours in a day. If you charge by the hour, the only way for you to earn more is to spend more hours working. You can always raise your rates. But, at some point, there. MORE
It is one thing to build a network; it is another to make it world-class. MORE
“Don’t be pulled around by your calendar. Own it.” ” Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the average workday in the United States has increased by 40% and time spent in meetings has increased by almost 30%. MORE
You deserve congratulations for your accomplishments so far. Your consulting firm, whether big or small, thriving or struggling, is a manifestation of your intention and commitment to create value for others. Could you achieve more? Much, much more? Definitely. MORE
235 Brimstone Consulting
AUGUST 7, 2020
Leaders should be asking themselves and their organization, “what new normal should we create?”. Morela Hernandez, Associate Professor at the Darden School of Business, asks – “ What new normal should we create ?”
Brimstone Consulting
JULY 27, 2020
Great change leaders empower others. To create an unstoppable, energized team and enterprise—you can’t just tell the rest of the organization what to do. Instead, leaders are clear with the organization about what success looks like, what change is necessary to achieve it, and why it needs to happen.
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Brimstone Consulting
JULY 20, 2020
Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. 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.
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 29, 2020
A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. It has been just over three months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2020
Agile strategy can transform your organization.
Brimstone Consulting
JULY 14, 2020
“Don’t be pulled around by your calendar. Own it.” ” Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the average workday in the United States has increased by 40% and time spent in meetings has increased by almost 30%.
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Brimstone Consulting
JULY 8, 2020
A practical framework to help you lead – and succeed. I am thrilled to announce the publication of our first book – The Core 4: Harness Four Core Drivers to Accelerate Your Organization.
Brimstone Consulting
MAY 18, 2020
Leaders need to act now to establish flex time and remote work policies and guidelines. Fifty-seven percent of employers are now offering flex time , up from 39% at the end of March. At the same time, 62% of employed Americans are working from home.
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 17, 2020
Aligning your senior leadership team will help drive the results needed to move your organization forward through recovery. The alignment of the senior leadership team impacts growth, performance, profitability, and the ability of an organization to navigate change and disruption.
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 8, 2020
Move from “handling the crisis” to “moving beyond the crisis.” . “I I feel like I am in an eternal Wednesday,” a friend told me last week.
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Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 1, 2020
Together, we need to step up to denounce racism and injustice with one voice. I am heartsick over the death of George Floyd.
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Brimstone Consulting
MARCH 17, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming how we work – and live. More than ever, it is important that we come together to help and to support each other. Here are articles you may find helpful when leading and through crisis and uncertain times. Leadership.
Brimstone Consulting
MARCH 12, 2020
CASE STUDY. Revenue increased by 34 times. Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point.
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 15, 2020
CASE STUDY. Brimstone worked side-by-side with a large pharmacy benefits supplier to regain sustainable growth in its public sector business, which serves federal, state, and local agencies of all types. DOWNLOAD. Results.
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 15, 2020
CASE STUDY. The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider.
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 14, 2020
Actions to take now to help you lead through the COVID-19 crisis, navigate change, and emerge ready for the future. While the impact and magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic vary depending on the sector, business model, and geography, we are all experiencing a crisis of momentous proportion.
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 7, 2020
CASE STUDY. The beauty and personal care division of a global packaging company increased sales by aligning the leadership team, establishing operating mechanisms, and establishing accountability.
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 6, 2020
I know you did not sign up for this current situation, but you did sign up for leadership. When you signed up for leadership, you made the choice to lead. Right now, you need to lead. .
Brimstone Consulting
MARCH 30, 2020
On Friday, March 27, the “US overtook Italy and China as the country with the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases ,” reads my CNN newsfeed.
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 2, 2020
Placing Focus on the Future: An interview with Mark Cross and Randy Kates. With economies reopening, leaders need to focus on protecting their business and their employees so they can successfully accelerate through recovery and focus on the future. Last week I sat down with Mark Cross and Randy Kates to hear their thoughts on what actions leaders need to be taking. Mark is a Senior Partner at Brimstone and a former executive at Kimberly-Clark and MeadWestvaco.
Brimstone Consulting
MAY 12, 2020
Leaders who recognize our new reality as an opportunity will be able to accelerate their organizations through crisis to recovery faster than those who don’t. .
Consulting Success
AUGUST 3, 2020
It is one thing to build a network; it is another to make it world-class.
Successful Independent Consulting
APRIL 15, 2020
The #1 FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) among independent consultants involves business development. Will I be able to find enough work? How can I develop a steady pipeline of leads? I don’t know how to do sales!
David A Fields
AUGUST 4, 2020
You deserve congratulations for your accomplishments so far. Your consulting firm, whether big or small, thriving or struggling, is a manifestation of your intention and commitment to create value for others. Could you achieve more? Much, much more? Definitely.
David A Fields
JULY 28, 2020
You’ve told your consulting clients the keys to success, and you’ve reminded them. More than once. By the way, you’ve also made these core principles clear in your articles and webinars. We’re talking about the fundamentals you communicate to virtually every one of your consulting firm’s clients.
David A Fields
JULY 21, 2020
What could be more discouraging for you and your consulting firm than promoting a fantastic solution… that prospects and clients don’t adopt? Ask the inventors of the 1964 AT&T Picturephone what they think about the novelty of Zoom calls!) You can overcome that problem.
Consulting Success
JULY 30, 2020
Pricing your consulting services hourly is one of the worst ways to charge your clients. You only have so many hours in a day. If you charge by the hour, the only way for you to earn more is to spend more hours working. You can always raise your rates. But, at some point, there.
Consulting Success
JULY 13, 2020
People look at adversities as mere problems that hold us back from getting to where we want to be. But really, these obstacles and challenges are what build us as better people.
David A Fields
MARCH 17, 2020
You’re swimming in a vast sea of stressful news and, given today’s reality, you’re well within your rights to feel anxious, nervous and uncertain about how your consulting firm should proceed.
Consulting Success
JUNE 1, 2020
Business consultancy relies on your ability to have your audience believe that you can help them scale their businesses. An irresistible consulting sales presentation can be a powerful tool to deliver that impact.
David A Fields
APRIL 14, 2020
Many of your consulting firm’s prospects are caught in the eddies of crisis and battling to stay afloat. While they appreciate your relationship-building calls, unfortunately, they’re too preoccupied to fully engage in deep conversations with you.
Consulting Success
MARCH 30, 2020
Consulting is a two-way transaction. While people know this, not many take it to heart. A consultant goes beyond merely telling their clients what to do; rather, they listen and build trust in one another.
Consulting Success
JULY 27, 2020
With stiff online competition, one of the ways you could rise above is by showing up at the top of search engines. Nevertheless, this goal has been proven by many to be really tough to achieve. While that is the case, it does not mean it is impossible. In fact, in this episode, Michael Zipursky.
Consulting Success
APRIL 6, 2020
A lot of consultants are hired for their expertise in a certain field and their familiarity with specific subject matters or jargon, but one of the more underrepresented aspects of consulting is building mastery over oneself.
David A Fields
JUNE 23, 2020
These days, maintaining physical distance preserves your health and protects those around you. News Flash: Mental and emotional distance between you and your business bolsters your health, happiness, and the success of your consulting firm. All entrepreneurs tangle themselves in their businesses.
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