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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Conversely, I represent several consultants who are always in demand. Translation: change management for IT projects.

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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

Leverage effective inquiry tactics to diagnose organizational needs As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), I belong to the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC USA) and the IMC Chicagoland Chapter. Using good questioning tools and techniques can set one consultant apart from the pack.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” Regrets to Leadership Risks?

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). L&D, goal-setting theory of motivation, and leadership training took shape during those five years with the band. I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. Ongoing project assessment of changes taken with defined early indicators. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself." link] Performance Accelerator 3: Strategic Leadership.

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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).

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The Future of Management (Part 1/3)

Tom Spencer

Back in January, I started working in an internal strategy function at Boston Consulting Group’s Digital Ventures. Due to the nature of my role, I was exposed to a vast array of leadership and management styles, most specifically Director, VP and Partner level. In this management style, there are two scenarios at play.