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Starting your Consulting Journey as a College Student

Tom Spencer

My interest in consulting began at university , before then I was certain I would become a diplomat. My personal experience as a graduate and now working for a consulting firm shows that you can build upon your initial college experience to launch a successful consulting career. Join a consulting club.

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Leadership tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead

Johanna Rothman

Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. The more often you see a demo, the more often you can see the team succeed. If senior leadership delegates the project portfolio decisions to middle management, then the middle managers decide. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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Consultant Marketing Solo DoubleTrouble

Jerry Fletcher

You decided to put your consulting career on the front burner. With experience you were moved more and more into leadership but seldom if ever did you select the people on your team. As a consultant you don’t have that power. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. You made the break.

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Epicflow Implementation Guide: Essential Steps and Best Practices

Epicflow

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Data adjustment and integration.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

The first was not waiting for the end of an iteration to demo or release. They demo'd every week on Wednesday mornings and then they released after the demo. Aside from the problems that the teams don't finish everything each quarter, the senior leadership likes the regular cadence of planning and seeing accomplishments.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Beau approached us a few months ago to ask about breaking into consulting. He had the epiphany that consulting was his calling in life, and went searching for details – finding MC in the process. We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Is that right?

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Three Slightly Ranty Thoughts on “Back” to Normal

Johanna Rothman

Years ago, I consulted with a software company that purposefully hired from the “bottom of the barrel.” I suggested ways in Leadership Tip #9 about micromanagement.). I like starting with trust and asking if people understand the work; if they need anything; and when I can expect to see a demo or results.