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Beyond Bullet Points: A Guide to Structured Consulting Decks

Tom Spencer

As consultants strive to convey complex ideas, strategies, and recommendations, a well-crafted slide deck is an invaluable tool. Well-presented problem slides can set up your presentation, and help make your value contribution to the client clear. This is where data collection and analysis come into play.

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Don’t Talk to Strangers – Not!

Action Plan

He said, “Well, I’m kind of introverted, and I don’t like to boast about myself.” “I Well, what might that look like?” Let’s say you learned that this person you want to connect with has a collection of rare jazz albums. I’ve been collecting jazz for 50 years, and I’d love to know a little about the kind of jazz you collect.’ “Now,

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Are Collaboration Tools Overwhelming Your Team?

Harvard Business

Today’s workers feel numbed by a fragmented, unpredictable, and overwhelming collection of collaboration tools — the very things advertised to boost their productivity. Here are their findings, as well as strategies for leaders to simplify employees’ collaboration tool use. They called their intervention the “collaboration cleanse.”

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Will We Get the Census We Deserve?

Markovitz Consulting

But yesterday, the Bureau announced that it would end field data collection one month earlier. In this case, additional training doesn’t address the real problem of a too-short data collection period. That’s not going to end well for the Bureau. The US Census Bureau was supposed to finish counting households by October 31.

Training 147
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Software Design: Strategies for Sustained Excellence

Tom Spencer

A user-centric approach begins with immersive research into users, the creation of detailed personas, and continuous collection of user feedback to inform design decisions. It is about recognizing that great design is a collective effort that harnesses the strengths of multiple team members.

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Solving Problems with the Hypothesis-based Approach

Tom Spencer

The investigative approach is appropriate when the opportunity is well-defined, repetitive, and standardized, or where the solution is clear from the beginning. Consultants will also need to work with the client to develop a plan for collecting and analyzing the data. For example, implementing new IT software for a business unit.

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What To Do If Your Client Doesn't Pay

Successful Independent Consulting

The oral presentations went well. The Steps I Took to Finally Get Paid I did three things to escalate the issue and finally collect. They also have customizable forms in their library; search on Late Payment Collection Letters. Attached is a collection letter cosigned by my attorney. (Big mistake!) Keep all your emails.

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