Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

The traditional methods of governance, often characterized by bureaucratic hurdles, delayed decision-making, and limited stakeholder engagement, no longer meet the demands of the modern era. In this article, we will explore some unexpected yet highly effective ways of utilizing technology to infuse innovation into the governance process.

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Girard Training Solutions

APRIL 17, 2024

For the purpose of this article, we’re going to focus on a very important one that many managers are afraid of and tend to overlook: Give feedback! Eventually, they will actively seek feedback to stay productive and improve their performance. Making it a habit will foster a more engaged, productive, and purposeful environment.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 13, 2018

It’s simply the smartest way of finding and connecting with your ideal client, establishing your credibility, increasing your number of discovery meetings and close rates as well as giving you the platform to increasing your fees. We don't sell a tangible product or service. Third, make your content easy to digest and implement.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this 2-part article, I will outline the 5 key skills of an effective consultant, then discuss how to hone and highlight these skills. Even in day to day scenarios like team meetings, conflict resolution, and decision making, good leadership is essential to ensure smooth operations within the firm.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to make sure that a company utilizes its available resources wisely so that they are productive but aren’t overloaded? Resource utilization is one of the most essential KPIs that project-based organizations should track – it gives them an idea of how efficiently they use the available resources and how productive their employees are.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2021

I wrote an article in 2001: Crisis? They hired me because they were in danger of going out of business due to their inability to release a working product. That's because they had an architecture that couldn't scale, people who couldn't do the work, and a mess of a product. That expert didn't receive management training.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the realm of business, the term “ governance ” conjures images of stale bureaucracy, mundane meetings, and rigid roles. This article aims to shed light on the power of governance and how to create a transformative governance structure. Below are eight considerations that organizations should keep in mind.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

After all, I’ve been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus. Learn how to meet those challenges and your marketing will become more successful, easier, and fun. But meeting those challenges is absolutely worth it. Yes, marketing is challenging.

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ConsultX

MARCH 8, 2022

This article will help you to gain a better understanding of what a Business Consultant is, and what their role can entail. Wikipedia states: The consultant is in a role of sharing her or his knowledge and advice In recent years, we’ve seen sales-people take on the title of consultant, as they provide advice on the product they’re selling.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

Equally problematic is the lack of training and coaching so the team is competent and committed enough to give their best while striving to achieve the goals. I facilitated a meeting in my office with fifteen senior human resource executives. Employee turnover causes lower morale and employee productivity. Losing key employees.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you look closely at the advice that’s being trotted out in leading business publications, you’ll see that aside from mentions of the pandemic, these articles could have been written a year ago or a decade ago. Manufacturing plants will still have human beings assembling products, even if they’re wearing personal protective equipment.

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Unengaged employees are less productive and lose companies billions of dollars in lost sales, poor customer service and inferior quality. These kinds of actions produce employee engagement and productivity, as well as trust. Also, check out our new resource: 21 Servant Leadership Training Lessons. Resources for Your Development.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. In this article, we’ll provide a high-level overview of where the professional services industry is right now – and what current conditions mean for project-based organizations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

companies spend over $70 billion annually on training, and an average of $1,459 per salesperson — almost 20 percent more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing.

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Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Taking on new experiences that allow us to confront our fears are the very moments when fear meets courage – and regardless of what happens when these two rivals meet, it is inevitable that an individual will leave that experience better off for bringing a level of bravery to the table. In addition, see Rick’s newest book.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 5, 2022

This article is the third of a series of posts on how to build a company "operating system", the infrastructure that functions as a backbone of your most common tasks and daily activities. In particular in this article we focus on how to track company time on Airtable in order to be able to run analysis and optimization activities.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2017

What began as an orderly public meeting soon degenerated into chaotic shouts, curses, and political threats as one Draper resident after another told the mayor emphatically that this would not happen in their backyard. These are only a few of a much longer list of group productivity killers. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

All of which are very relevant to the work I do today, the products I create, and the articles and tips I share on my newsletter ( [link] ). Instituting higher standards and regular training. Executing effective meetings. Value-added sales messaging. The importance of using market data in your sales messaging.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

JUNE 21, 2022

However today yet new challenges and opportunities for businesses have emerged about workforce effectiveness and productivity that are likely to drive decisions and further changes in the composition of the workforces of many businesses, as well as, about organisational, business and operational priorities needing to have.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 22, 2016

Meetings frustrate everyone. It’s easy to blame this on others – the higher-ups who invite us, arrange the agendas, and chair the meetings. But we are all accountable for keeping meetings effective, whether we are calling them or simply participating. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Although it might appear as though you’re saving costs when you don’t spend money updating your digital product, it might cost you much more over the long haul. Management must commit to articulating its strategy with IT, and IT leaders must ensure that the resulting architecture can meet the evolving needs of the business.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

Equally problematic is the lack of training and coaching so the team is competent and committed enough to give their best while striving to achieve the goals. I facilitated a meeting in my office with fifteen senior human resource executives. Employee turnover causes lower morale and employee productivity. Losing key employees.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

And as I neared the end of my corporate days, I realized I’d received much more management training in the last five years than I did in the first 20 years — when I really needed it — combined. Some surveys seem to lump together technical skills training and classic management training. More strategic.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In this piece, the article talks about 83% of MLS’s current fans watching on streaming devices. Do the associations your brand generate meet the expectations you want? Train customers to wait for a better deal. I have seen some pretty heated settlement meetings though. What about the fans you need to reach? Kill profits.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Well-run meetings allow you and your team to clarify issues, set direction, and move objectives forward. And yet there never seems to be enough time to properly plan and execute meetings. Perhaps it’s time to rethink whether you should even be leading your own meetings. They’re essential to your team’s success.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes? Are upskilling/training efforts driven by customer feedback?

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Peter Stark

APRIL 1, 2018

Building and maintaining a productive team is, at times, challenging for every leader. If one of your leaders is suffering from these conditions, help them follow the steps outlined below to build a stronger team, improve the relationships between managers and their employees, and increase productivity.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2018

When you find the time, you send an article to those on your relatively small email list. You occasionally set up meetings with colleagues to explore opportunities. Random programs or services are generalized consulting, coaching or training programs. “I I offer management consulting and training to corporations.”

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Epicflow

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll consider some essential metrics that can be used to assess the fruitfulness of change management efforts. . These results may include: reduction of costs, revenue increase, customer satisfaction rate, efficiency of a company’s processes, decision-making time, employee productivity. .

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Ongoing contributions usually do not come from clients during trainings or when receiving advice from experts. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 13, 2021

This idea feeds right into my point; it's not about the perfect label; it's about meeting people's needs through your expertise. We can't increase production. Don't write articles around YOURSELF. Pre-interview, meet for coffee and have a personal chat. His blog posts should do just that! We can't profits going up.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

This article outlines a simple framework to execute your strategy. However, the staff level often only gets a few PPT slides and maybe a town hall or all-hands meeting. new markets) or building new processes (new channels, products or services). Do we have an effective meeting culture ? It's that simple.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

moves about involuntarily, pulled away and bounced around by meetings, texts, emails, news feeds, and during the last year of pandemic, by the kids, the pets, the laundry, and the pot of soup on the stove, and maybe YouTube and Netflix. The costs to our productivity and our personal wellbeing of this involuntary attention are enormous.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

It wasn’t long after becoming a manager that I found I had landed on a seemingly endless treadmill of meetings. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting? You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

So, in this article, we will investigate the implications of wearable technology on businesses and entrepreneurs. Every business is looking for ways to continually improve the productivity of its employees. One research study found that the productivity of workers using wearable technology increased by 8.5%.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 21, 2010

OD vs. Training – Or Is It? For example, many Organization Development practitioners almost look down on training as scoped to working only with individuals and not the broader context of organizations as does OD (by the way, we OD’rs prefer that you capitalize the name of our field. Are You Doing OD? Consulting? All of These?

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