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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

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. Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Start your own business. .

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Impact-Based Corporate Training Design

LSA Global

Corporate Training Impact Why would any organization invest in professional development unless it believed that their training investment would pay off for their people and the business? This exercise alone will help integrate the learning into their job habits and behaviors.

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Why you’re not getting any clients from your consulting website

Tsavo Neal

But, not all sales conversations lead to project work. prospects turn into a paying client — or a 20% sales call conversion rate. Sales call conversion rate: 20% Consultations needed per month: 3.3333 Consultations needed (per week): 0.8333 Consultations needed (per day): 0.111. Now we’re getting somewhere.

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business

“Sell higher and call on the C-Suite” is probably the most common refrain in business development, and you can see why. It’s up to you to prepare for the meeting and be ready with examples or case studies that demonstrate your awareness of the customer’s business context. Manage each minute.

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How to Differentiate Your Consulting Business: Does Your Firm Have Pink Hair?

Tsavo Neal

It’s easy to differentiate your firm based on anything other than the quality of your advice (which often comes from specialization and/or years of developing expertise in a specific industry or problem), by talking about your unique process, your people, or even simply dropping your prices. ” Myth Number 3: Why Differentiate? .”

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

To better understand how these work, try the exercise below on your own or with your team. ” There are a variety of ways you can use this exercise beyond one meeting. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with.

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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

To give an example of just how hard it can be to prevent this from happening, let’s consider the case of Nokia. The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. Pragmatically, you can begin to do this without a whole lot of drama.

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