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Recharge Your Time Management

The Clever Consultant

Running a successful consulting business means your time is spread thin. And then there’s the marketing: writing case studies to keep your kit fresh, articles or blog posts for your website, social networks to update and so on. I like to come back from time-off refreshed and recharged, feeling like I’ve got everything underfoot.

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice. “Everyone is always very polite in these interviews, but I need your honesty,” Amrita told him.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

This could be a good time to learn a new language, so you can use it on a future work trip. You were probably practicing case studies daily, so it should be easy to replace this daily discipline with practicing a new language every day. Not returning to school or filled your schedule up already?

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The Six-Minute Hypothesis Rule

CaseInterview.com

The whole case study interview consists of about five sections (about six minutes each), each focusing on a different aspect of the same case - sort of jumping around from one part of the case to another. Just keep that in mind from a time-management standpoint. Additional Resources.

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Student consulting – it does more than deliver

Tom Spencer

Your personal skills, such as confidence and time management and coping with stress, will likely be tested as you will find yourself in scenarios that stretch your capabilities in these areas. From this, you can identify any potential problems and use the experience to find a way to manage or solve these problems.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business

Case Study #1: Support your perfectionists and look for time-saving tools. ” Case Study #2: Set clear expectations and check-in regularly. Help them brainstorm solutions and get them updated tools if they need them.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

Regularly seek feedback on how you’re doing as their manager. Case Study #1: Model the behavior you want to see. He inherited a team of seven people, five of whom were relatively new managers. “The managers showed real growth in their skills. ” Case Study #2: Work closely together.