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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Signs of Crunch Time. Conference Room Smells interacting. Posted by Consultant Ninja. Labels: Bitterness , Consulting , Vignettes.

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The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time

Rick Conlow

They give you clues to what’s going on in organizations, and the potential impact of The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time. A time management study by Theodore Barry and Associates showed that 40-50% of employee time is unproductive! 5 Clues about the Greatest Leadership Principle.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Provide access to online training resources, virtual workshops, or conferences. Partner with RCI Consulting Services. Also, do it yourself.

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5 Ways to Say No to a Networking Request

Harvard Business

When you start to receive dozens of requests per week — almost always for 30-60 minutes of private consultation — you would dramatically handicap your productivity if you tried to do them all. How to Get the Most Out of a Conference. But that quickly grows old. Judging which requests to honor can be difficult, however.

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

The Conference Board’s “Executive Coaching Survey” (2018): This survey found that 68% of organizations use internal coaching programs, and 47% use external coaching programs. McKinsey & Company: As a global management consulting firm, McKinsey places a high value on coaching. Anybody can coach poorly.

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How to Work Remotely Without Losing Motivation

Harvard Business

Sometimes it’s been across oceans and time zones (we are a military family), and sometimes it’s been across town (the office was short on space; I was a slave to my children’s schedules; the whole operation was virtual). It’s an inarguable fact.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

Leslie Perlow, a Harvard Business School Professor, describes in Sleeping with Your Smartphone, how an experiment with one team at Boston Consulting Group, successfully took hold and was eventually expanded to 900 teams across 30 countries. Neither you nor anyone on your team should feel truly indispensable.