Consulting Matters

JANUARY 5, 2020

If you're a consulting or coaching business owner, you probably invest a ton of time, money and mental energy trying to find your perfect clients and convince them of your value. And in the process, you're overlooking one key factor: A client/consultant or coach relationship is an equal partnership between two people. Do they show up on time?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Most MBA programs teach the same core topics: finance, marketing, human resources, negotiations, strategy, consulting and organizational management. If you get accepted and decide to attend an MBA program, the knowledge, skills and friendships you gain will mostly come from opportunities you pursue outside of the classroom.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 3, 2018

On this episode, we talk about ways to find an underserved market, the benefits of a healthy work-life balance, and the question everyone wants answered — how to land a six-figure deal with your dream client. When she combined that fact with her skills and market expertise, she found the courage to take the leap.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized Leading Leaders Workshop. 96% Job Relevance. 96% Satisfaction.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 15, 2023

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that the most dangerous person is likely gifted with reason but no morals. A blind passion for results damages a leader's reputation and the organization. Leadership behaviors guide actions, but a leader's character determines how and if the leader acts. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2022

This global high growth real estate services firm wanted to ensure their sales strategy was on track before investing the time and resources in business sales training to accelerate their ability to qualify, pitch to executives , negotiate, and close. The sales process and framework for each pursuit is fairly inconsistent.

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LSA Global

MAY 2, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Consultative Sales Training for High Tech Channel Managers in Europe and Asia.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized 6-month Action Learning Program for Healthcare Leaders.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 20, 2022

Write your future resume and then look for opportunities to get the experiences, skills, and recommendations that you need to make your ideal resume a reality. A career is as unique as the individual. However, if you asked them to predict their current job 5 years ago, most of them wouldn’t have been able to do it.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. As consulting is a very demanding career it often becomes hard to maintain work-life balance. Interviews. Corporate Strategy. What is corporate strategy? Group head interview (fit).

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Halo Psych

MAY 16, 2022

Here are 10 skills that I think leaders need to navigate this turbulent century: The ability to navigate complexity Appreciating complexity reminds us that no behaviour is always effective and that all cures have unintended consequences. Dheeraj Pandey, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Nutanix.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Not all managers follow the company’s MBM principles, and work/life balance reviews hit both ends of the pendulum depending on the office. For example, you will be asked to describe a time when you used good judgment and logic to solve a problem, or a time you used your coping skills when faced with a stressful situation.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

The work/life balance is known to be out of whack, with 80-100 hour work weeks common (so for those of you looking for better hours after working in consulting, you may want to look somewhere else). Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. ———– History & Culture.

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LSA Global

JUNE 25, 2021

4 Tips that Work for Achieving Sales Goals While most consultative selling training programs teach meaningful skills to help achieve sales quota, they rarely touch upon the actual process of setting achievable sales goals. Define your sales goals in terms that are meaningful and make sense in the context of your life.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Your consulting life is largely determined by business needs. Your life will be shaped in ways large and small by the month-to-month success of your firm, and how they decide to allocate their resources. But, the consulting world is the Partner’s oyster, not yours. Business needs always comes first. Your power grows with tenure.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2020

We need to openly and willingly discuss, influence, and negotiate about the topics at hand. See Building Trust in Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life. That means we need to turn on and use the relevant chat channels. ” That's where the meeting participants need facilitation skills and possibly working agreements.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Once he discovered that he had the skills he needed for success, his career took off and hasn’t stopped since. In our conversation, David shares the mistakes he made in the early days of his career, how he has achieved the perfect work-life balance, and the number one error that he wishes consultants would stop making.

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Kates Kesler

JANUARY 18, 2022

Our advice to Cari would be to focus on the three elements of activation that bring new organization intentions to life. Cari, a leader in the company’s new Data and Analytics unit, was frustrated to hear about yet another team which hired an external contractor to do the work her group was set up to do. Right Connections.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Square. Square is a San Francisco-based start-up that has been turning a lot of heads by “making commerce easy for everyone.” ———— History & Culture.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

The other, Joseph, saw how Brittney’s skill in doing this not only made Brittney happier but also changed our whole company culture to be more supportive of working parents. You have to clarify who you are and what you want before you can confidently negotiate your boundaries. A conversation with yourself. Working Parents.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 13, 2023

We’ll cover everything from negotiating sponsorship deals to whether you should have exclusive content behind a paywall, so you know how to make money from your own podcast. But this varies widely based on the podcast’s popularity, the type of podcast ad, negotiations, and listener demographics. How much do podcast ads pay?

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

No matter where we are in our own journeys, we could all get better at the skill of transitioning. To do this, focus on four component skills: Pacing and planning. Measure out your life to date in major chapters. hbr staff/shannon miller/Getty Images. She looks a bit dazed and exhausted, her lovely yellow down all awry.

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Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The first is that the skills that made you a great engineer/IT professional/accountant are the exact same skills required for you to be an effective manager (which is not the case). The second is that there really aren’t any specialized skills related to being a good manager. Congratulations! Welcome to management. Good luck!”

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A less common action is to take control of one’s life path by creating or buying a business. Motivations for Owning a Business. Guest column from Gregory Kovsky, IBA Business Brokers. An introductory conversation between adults locally will often include an inquiry about each person’s occupation. Do you admire them? Why is that true?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“Step back and think expansively about your objectives,” advises Jeff Weiss, president of Lesley University and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating. “Think about the offer in terms of your development, your quality of life, and the variety of the work you want to do.” How should you try to get a better deal?

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Management Consulted

APRIL 24, 2016

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Boeing. Boeing is an American multinational corporation based in Chicago, Illinois that is known for revolutionizing the aerospace and defense industries. To date, it is the leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space, and security systems.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Effective leadership is communication. Great leaders recognize they are part of a team and want to inspire followers to be their best, but it's not easy. In fact, sometimes, it's incredibly challenging.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In each case I served as part of the negotiating team, protecting the interests of my client, and managing communications to staff, as well as managing day-to-day operations of the organization. A third assignment began with merger negotiations, but for strategic reasons the merger agreement was never completed.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’ve distilled them down into five major categories and have begun integrating them into my work life — practicing them, honing them, teaching them. The best sales people I have seen are like modern day MacGyvers, sans the life and death scenarios. The sales profession exists within a meritocracy. Caroline Webb.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2020

We need to openly and willingly discuss, influence, and negotiate about the topics at hand. See Building Trust in Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life. That means we need to turn on and use the relevant chat channels. ” That's where the meeting participants need facilitation skills and possibly working agreements.

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LSA Global

APRIL 25, 2017

But there are some times when it is important to step up and confront a problem that will only grow if not handled in a smart, timely and skillful manner. More than likely, you will have at least one team member who lacks the skill, knowledge, capability, willingness or motivation to get the job done in a way that makes sense.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PWC INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. PwC is an absolute behemoth – prestigious, mystical, and totally confusing to the outside observer. The firm has a 160+ year legacy, and a brand that is cobbled together from so many pasts that it’s hard to tell which way the firm is headed. Here’s what we know – PwC is a survivor. PWC HISTORY.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Love it or hate it, office politics is an inevitable part of organizational life. Being able to negotiate, influence, engage, convince, and persuade others is how things get done in organizations — and how organizations decide what’s worth doing at all. AnthonyRosenberg/Getty Images. Same Game, Different Benefits.

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

The Gallup Consulting practice is a unique place – easier to break into from non-targets than MBB, but outrageously globally competitive and totally unique in its assessment process (you have one chance, in your life, period). Throughout his life, he was curious about public opinion and politics. KEY STATS FOR GALLUP CONSULTING.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me. Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk tweets that no one changed the world working 40 hours a week.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 18, 2015

You get what you negotiate. Life isn’t fair. Stretch your influencing skills. Speechwriter & Executive Speech Coach Marianne Fleischer, Fleischer Communications, will also be the keynote speaker at Women in Consulting’s August 10th, South Bay General Meeting. What if you have a great idea, but you aren’t calling the shots?

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ConsultX

AUGUST 15, 2021

They can multiply profit, grow in revenue and increase the value of their business using their unique advantages. This is achieved by taking a more active role in helping clients succeed in improving the profit, growth, and value of their businesses.

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