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For Independent Consultants, Business Development = Relationship Development

Successful Independent Consulting

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. First, consultants are good at helping clients solve problems but usually aren’t trained in sales or marketing. It seems like a lifetime ago we worked together on the travel card rollout at NetApp.

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Unlocking a Career as a Marketing Consultant

Tom Spencer

To do this, they should possess a keen understanding of the client’s target market and existing customer base, as well as the ability to recommend clear and actionable strategies to increase sales, expand the customer base, and develop new product offerings that will appeal to customers.

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Consulting in Mongolia- a Personal Journey

Effective Managers

The feature picture from this article was taken (with my wife Donna in the foreground) during a day-off trip into the country with Tuya and other leading management consultants in Mongolia. As Mongolia transitioned to a market economy, many donor countries helped in this transition by subsidising all kinds of training programmes.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Instead, a better question is, how can you develop quality coaching relationships through technology? However, most of those articles are authored by virtual coaching organizations using their data. Affordability improves through reduced travel and associated time out of the office costs. & Scandura, T. Hernez-Broome, G.,

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Getting The Best Out of Your Team

Tom Spencer

In this article, we will take a look at six tested steps that a leader can take to get the best out of their team. For example, in large cities where travelling to the office can be time consuming and expensive, giving people the flexibility to work from home can increase productivity multi-fold. Identify the strengths of the team.

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What is Executive Coaching?

Organizational Talent Consulting

If leaders and teams are not continuously developing, they are falling behind. This article provides insights on what executive coaching is and is not, evidence-based benefits, the coaching process, virtual coaching, what makes an excellent executive coach, and more. However, it may not be familiar to you.

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