Successful Independent Consulting

JULY 31, 2017

Most consultants I know struggle with business development, and it’s a top concern among those thinking about going independent. “ Most of us never had sales training so this concern is understandable, but reframing how we think about business development can turn concern into action. or “ Oh my god, I’m going to die!

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This article makes five broad recommendations for preparing your workforce for an uncertain future. What we need is not just re-skilling or up-skilling, but pre-skilling: that is, being able to future-proof talent and reinvent peoples’ careers before we even know what tomorrow’s jobs and in-demand skills will be.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 31, 2020

Client development is what you do to develop clients — one of the most important practices of any consulting business. Right now, in the middle of a pandemic, client development can be tough. Client Development for Consultants: How to Grow & Keep Clients is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article elucidates the manifold benefits states can derive from collaborating with such agencies and their expert consultants. Maximizing state development with business experts. Maximizing state development with business experts.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While in a nascent stage, generative AI promises to have a major impact on learning and development. It will personalize learning pathways; continuously update materials; create highly realistic, varied training simulations; identify and address skill gaps; and offer a more interactive and responsive feedback than conventional approaches.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Smart companies are taking proactive steps to support this cohort’s professional development. Many young professionals started their careers during this tumultuous period, interviewing for and starting new jobs in remote environments.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 8, 2024

Do You Need More Effective Strategies to Maximize Employee Talent Development? Done right, strategies to maximize employee talent development should increase employee engagement, retention, and performance. Done right, strategies to maximize employee talent development should increase employee engagement, retention, and performance.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 30, 2020

Next, you need to DEVELOP those ideas, insights, resources, and connections into something useful. Then you take that inspiration to write an article that you can send to all your clients. Connect – Develop – Re-Connect – Re-Develop. And nothing new gets developed. But we can also fall into the “development trap.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Historically, the challenge with implementing learning and development programs has been the difficulty in quantifying the impacts on organizational performance. Leaders can use an approach called balanced benchmarking, borrowed from operations management, to conduct a needs assessment and apply training where it can be most effective.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2023

All too often, leadership development programs don’t adequately account for the culture, norms, and system within which the leader is working. The author shares four strategies that Intuit has used to build a culture that reinforces, rather than inhibits, positive leader growth.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 25, 2023

CAMPBELL, CA – May 25, 2023 Training Industry announced that Clarity Consultants was named to the 2023 Training Industry’s Custom Content Development Companies Watch List. Custom content development primarily includes custom instructional course design and development for external use. Client representation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Micro-retailers are vitally important to the economies of developing countries and to consumer packaged goods companies. But their full potential is not being realized. The adoption of digital technologies could help change that. But for that to happen, obstacles must be overcome. Three strategies can address them.

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Here are some of the techniques I have used over the years in different consulting roles, such as working for a traditional consulting firm, boutique firm, or as an independent: Research and keep a scrapboook of ideas – This can be a folder where you drop killer slides you’ve run into, killer figures, well done models, articles, etc.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

China is more important than ever in the global economy, which means that many companies have to develop a strategy for doing business there. The author, a China expert, describes some key steps that companies can take to develop the right China strategy during this moment of opacity and flux.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Given these numerous demands, managers tend to deprioritize their own career development. The more managers take control of their development, the better able they’ll be to avoid the common career mistakes that will get in the way of their growth. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 29, 2018

John Le Drew and I pair-wrote an article describing this problem and how to solve it. We’ll see if they result in articles. I want as many experiences as possible as I develop my book about writing. (Not Yes, that’s a little meta considering the article. I have several experiments ongoing.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2024

The authors worked with 15 organizations and over 7,000 employees to experiment with ways to increase internal career development opportunities and prove promotion isn’t the only way people can advance. Employees gain opportunities to grow, develop in different directions, and increase their career resilience.

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David A Fields

MAY 24, 2022

However, there’s a different type of delivery that dramatically affects your success in business development. If you’ve perused many of the articles on this site and/or my … Continued. After your consulting firm wins a project, you deliver the project to your client.

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Consulting Success

MAY 5, 2023

Do you grow to a certain size first and then develop systems and processes — or is it the reverse? In this article, I’ll share how you can do both by creating. For a solopreneur consultant looking to grow, the dilemma often is what comes first: scale or structure? The answer lies somewhere in between.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 27, 2022

McKinsey article, “Not enough comps for valuation? This post will be updated from time to time.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Read the article to find out how to cope with the uncertainty in R&D projects and increase the chances of achieving desired outcomes. Research and development projects involve the process of discovering new ideas, technologies, and solutions to create new products (or services) or improve existing ones.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Then develop your messaging around them. I know that this can be a real challenge but it’s well worth it to focus in, get real clarity on your ideal client, and then develop your messaging and your marketing for a very specific type of client. Instead, you want to focus on a minority that you can really help and serve.

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David A Fields

MAY 18, 2021

Numerous books, articles, podcasts and videos have highlighted an interesting, if somewhat disconcerting phenomenon: people make (most) decisions quickly—sometimes in an instant—without any deep, thoughtful reasoning. Then they develop rationales that they honestly believe are the reasoning behind their decisions.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. Next, analyze the data and develop actionable strategies to improve the business.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2022

Developers must avoid falling back on outdated guidelines and keep up with the shifting threshold for accessibility.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2023

Fortunately, a new development playbook to solve this problem is already evolving, and it is anchored on the young people equipped with advanced digital skills in Sub-Saharan Africa. These young workers are digitally savvy, creative, and can lead a massive transformation — if they’re equipped and supported to unlock their potential.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MARCH 23, 2016

Publishing business articles is a potentially rewarding business development technique. If it is naïve then to assume that lots and lots of readers of your published articles will quickly and directly become new clients, one might therefore question whether writing and publishing articles offers you any business benefit at all.

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Comatch

APRIL 3, 2023

So, let’s dive in and discover how you can get noticed and achieve your professional development goals. 2) Define an effective content strategy Content is king, but an effective content strategy is essential to logically structure your content and develop your personal brand over time.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2024

This article will share four evidence-based strategies that leaders and managers can use to build community in their remote teams. These strategies include reflecting on what’s working for your team, recognizing your team in a meaningful way, providing support for career development, and communicating with your team as a whole person.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2024

The challenge lies in developing a clear collective understanding of what winning as a team looks like and then aligning efforts, resources, and strategies toward these common goals. In this article, the authors offer guidance on how to prepare for and lead a success-defining discussion with your team.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 18, 2011

Business Development is about new initiatives and incubation. The percentage of alliance failures cited often exceeds 60 percent ( example Entrepreneur article ). I wrote this post reflecting upon doing consulting & contract business development activities and representing mega, mid-market, and small companies over the past year.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 9, 2020

While there are many proven tips to develop top talent, it seems that talent management often becomes too complicated. Simply put, the purpose of talent management is to attract, develop, engage, and retain the top talent that leads to individual, team, and organizational success. 5 Insider Tips to Develop Top Talent.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article showcases a tool that will help you gracefully and mindfully execute a decision you disagree with. So, how do we forge ahead and follow with grace?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

In this short article, we will delve into five key strategies that can help you become a great product manager. To develop this understanding, product managers actively engage with customers through surveys, interviews, and user testing. Data is a potent tool that can guide product development.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As reliance on data and analytics continues to expand across industries from agriculture to manufacturing, health care to financial services, it stands to reason that the next generation of data leaders will have far-reaching roles that impact strategy, decision-making, operations, and countless other functions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since this overabundance of learning options seems to be the norm, learning and development leaders need to pause and reflect on something behavioral scientists have known for decades: Less is more. In this article, the authors unpack why that is and outline some strategies for offering employees higher-impact learning content.

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