Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci. I switched careers into learning and development and organization development. Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Management Consultants: Management consultants, in practice also known as business consultants or organizational advisors, are consultants who focus on all sorts of organizational concerns from strategy to a variety of elements within management. There are three main types of business consultants.

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PM Alliance

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

You shouldn’t develop your project scope alone. Take the time to review your strategy for creating project scopes and consider if a broader knowledgebase can help you produce better plans from the start. Do you develop realistic budgets? Do you have the right people involved in setting project parameters?

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 30, 2022

If your group hasn’t yet made that transition, or if you’re struggling to update your team’s mindset to match the new reality, there are some strategies that can help you put your short- and long-term planning activities in a better place. First, lean on your senior staff and take your cues from them.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The overall organizational system includes three primary systems: The business strategy is all about WHAT the organization wants to accomplish. The organization strategy is about HOW the organization will achieve its business strategy. The people strategy is about the WHO. Political savvy. Proactive advocacy.

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Kates Kesler

MAY 7, 2020

Customer centricity is defined here as creating unique product value propositions and strategies to deliver against unmet customer needs. Since inception, they have consistently developed cutting edge, best-in-class products. This model served the company quite well, providing a high degree of product specialization and focus.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

However, up until recently, the non-profit sector in Australia has borrowed heavily from ideas developed in the US, in particular from insights developed by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Get Email Updates (It’s Free). -- Australia’s premier consulting blog. Business Strategy. Enjoy the Consulting Blog?

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PM Alliance

JULY 21, 2023

Does your company have a strong commitment to support workers’ career development goals or to promote from within? Connect with your HR team early so you can develop the project schedule based on an accurate and realistic staffing plan. In addition, these experts can help develop task duration estimates for their targeted activities.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 21, 2022

As a group, brainstorm all the touch points that could be affected—if some are iffy, rank them in terms of likelihood—and come up with a strategy to maintain momentum while the dust settles. Try this: Bring your team together and develop a comprehensive view of the outgoing sponsor’s support level.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While nurturing your own network is usually the best way to find work ( see tips in my article ), many consultants also supplement their business development efforts by affiliating with agencies and, increasingly, online platforms or marketplaces. How do they go to market? How do they describe themselves?

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Kates Kesler

JANUARY 18, 2022

Cari faces a common problem: An executive leadership team decides to build a capability critical to the company’s strategy and future success. They do all the right things: create a strategy, announce a leader, build and buy the talent needed, research and implement best practices, purchase new technology, and roll-out training.

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

Organizations use numerous strategies to control costs. With data on how thought leadership is evolving, your team can partner with providers that have already developed processes to avoid wasteful or redundant activities. This information can be used to develop hiring plans that make the best use of low-cost markets.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

Whether it’s how your group comes together to collaborate on project budget development or the systems you use to maintain stakeholder engagement, a willingness to blend new and old methods gives you wider access to options that can lead to the perfect strategy for your unique situation. Consider your communications strategy.

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PM Alliance

JULY 7, 2023

If your organization’s project leaders don’t yet have a strategy in place to help team members build (or rebuild) their confidence, consider the widespread consequences doubt and fear can inflict on your project team. The value of knowing the team has what it takes to move an initiative to a successful completion is key to consistent results.

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PM Alliance

APRIL 28, 2023

As teams work to balance all these factors and develop budget forecasts, they also need to acknowledge there could be a lot of unknowns lurking in their cost estimates. If you’re struggling to get a handle on your budget development and oversight efforts, consider the potential fallout when project budgets go bad.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It's a consequence of an intentional positioning strategy, which I will explain to you in this video. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. This is me when I was in my twenties and I just got my master's degree in Organization Development. Transcript.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It's a consequence of an intentional positioning strategy, which I will explain to you in this video. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. This is me when I was in my twenties and I just got my master's degree in Organization Development. Transcript.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Before you develop tactics to increase sales, make sure that you have company-wide agreement on: – Ideal target client definition – Unique value proposition – Big sales bets to drive growth Concentrate on the Core of Your Business Unfortunately, far too many sales teams chase every customer opportunity.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Investing in your professional online reputation is an important Crisis Ready strategy—and ReputationDefender has launched a service to help make this process easy for you. This is why I was so pleased when I learned of the unique offering my friends at ReputationDefender have developed to serve this sorely underserved professional need.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 28, 2019

While all three of those things can be a meaningful part of a career development and employee engagement plan, neither has a direct correlation to revenue growth, profitability, win-rate, portfolio mix, cycle time, or customer satisfaction. Adopting a Well-Designed Sales Methodology. Reviewing Sales Wins and Losses. Sharing Knowledge.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

Many professionals who are interested in developing a side income stream find themselves procrastinating. Here are targeted strategies to overcome each one. For many professionals, a side hustle is the perfect way to develop new skills, explore professional passions, and develop new income streams. Diminishing commitment.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As a leader, it is up to you to understand and shape your culture so that it aligns with and supports your strategy. We believe that the same people who are responsible for setting the strategy are also responsible for setting the cultural norms to best execute the strategy. Otherwise, you are not performing at your peak.

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LSA Global

JUNE 28, 2018

A recent study found that learning strategies and instructional design approaches are more effective than raw cognitive ability in acquiring new skills. Now students arrive at their answers through a new and often puzzling problem solving methodology. In a nutshell, effective learning is far more interactive. Learning Can Be Learned.

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LSA Global

MARCH 9, 2018

Having been on all sides of solution selling for nearly thirty years—from newbie seller to team leader to CEO—we have developed a list of the top traits of successful sales managers. They need to be able to devise a clear and compelling go-to-market sales strategy that is fully aligned with where the business and the marketplace are headed.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 28, 2019

A generic approach to sales development is ineffective. And it’s not about telling reps what to do but guiding them to change their behavior in alignment with your unique sales strategy and culture. Top 4 Sales Leadership Mistakes to Avoid. We work hard to address the specific needs of our sales clients. Here are four to avoid: 1.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 2, 2022

With the right strategies in place ahead of time, you can mitigate the risks and keep your project on track for a timely completion. No matter how simple or complex the upcoming checkerboard move plan appears, your team should develop contingency schedules that can be quickly implemented to keep things moving forward.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ask vendors about their experience with different training strategies and what’s worked well. Was old data used to develop the budget? Look for ways to deliver educational resources through multiple venues to enhance your processes. Review expenditures and inquire about the causes behind significant budget deviations.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The downside to the growth in outsourcing is that, while teams can contract out software development and other tasks, strategic decision-making skills need to remain within the company.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

Therefore, it is essential to develop and manage specific goals that are clear and unambiguous, and that everyone understands. You can also check our previous article on OKR vs KPI for further information on these specific goal setting strategies. This is even more compelling with a remote team, especially across multiple time zones.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Some of these activities are planned a long time in advance, and a cascade of delays near the end of the project can throw the entire marketing strategy into disarray.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc.

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PM Alliance

MARCH 25, 2022

This may seem like a baseline strategy, but the amount of data flowing through the project stakeholder base can be truly overwhelming. Developing a project scope that’s both more explicit and more easily understandable enables you to increase consensus among sponsors while also avoiding a host of other problems down the road.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy. Sales Culture. Sales Talent.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 15, 2020

So this quick win is all around how you can begin to either start with your website strategy or refine your website strategy so it is set up to attract and impress your perfect ideal client. So let me share my screen and give you some ideas on how you can start developing your website strategy. I don't think you do.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

Read on if you'd like some instant validation that consulting is right for you and insight into the predictable challenges that most consultants face and strategies for overcoming hidden barriers to success. The best part of being a consultant is] being responsible for making a difference in the performance of others with my strategies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. Web sites, blogs, and other digital media have also made vendors’ organizations more transparent to buyers. What can colleges and universities do to mind the gap? That’s a big topic in its own right.

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