Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

To win business and deliver results - all consultants MUST cultivate their political savvy. While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons. Who are the go-to people and perceived top talent? Who are the real influencers?

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

To win business and deliver results - all consultants MUST cultivate their political savvy. While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons. Who are the go-to people and perceived top talent? Who are the real influencers?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2020

Almost all the consultants and coaches that I mentor want to become an executive advisor. The website creation process isn't some "check the box" exercise. True humility is having sober judgment about your gifts, talents and calling. For some this means that they want to work with more senior leaders in larger companies.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Training 207

LSA Global

MAY 26, 2023

About LSA Global Founded in 1995, LSA Global is the leading performance consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Management Comparison Training Training 36

LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a leadership action learning program called Action Learning for Leading Leaders.

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Emotional Intelligence Agile Talent Exercises 36

Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Modern cashflow management tools make this exercise easy. Thus, the available talent is now in a much stronger position than they were a few years ago. Build a talent pool that you can utilize when you have an actual position to fill. A spreadsheet will do as well. The baby boomers are exiting the work force. Hire pro-actively.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 1, 2023

Trying to eliminate sales objections is an exercise in futility. How to Navigate the Most Common Sales Objections Even with the best business sales training , sales reps will have to overcome sales objections. Prepping your team to overcome sales objections is just as important as helping them to win bigger deals.

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Sales Meeting Company Software 36

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an action learning program entitled Leading Leaders for Senior Executives.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Marketing Agile 36

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service. In 2009, the recession from 2008 forced me to pivot, sell the business, and reenter consulting full-time. That’s a lot of bending!

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Hotels Training Training Exercises 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Developing a vision is an exercise of both the head and the heart, it takes some time, it always involves a group of people, and it is tough to do well. Organizational Talent Consulting. A vision needs to be desired, beneficial to others, challenging, and visual to be considered compelling. References: Doolittle, J. Boen, F., &

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Management Consulted

MARCH 7, 2016

Pierre was a junior at Harvard University who was offered 2 very exciting internships – one for BCG in management consulting (plus, after this call he got an offer for Bain as well) and the other for a VC firm in New York. Want to know the pros/cons of consulting vs. VC from our perspective? Are you in the same shoes?

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 16, 2018

In chapter four we’ll discuss your organization’s high-risk scenarios, but before we get there, following is an exercise to consider undertaking with different members of your leadership team. This exercise will help you spark discussions and gain necessary awareness. If you happen to be a consultant reading this, don’t do this!)

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

Practicing small acts of self-control, like exercise followed by periods of rest, builds self-control capacity. Organizational Talent Consulting. What activity is practiced is not essential, but the amount of self-control exerted is critical. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated. Doolittle, J. Edmondson, A. & Witt, M.

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Leadership ROI Survey Hotels 59

Consultant Ninja

MAY 4, 2009

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. Posted by Consultant Ninja. Im guessing that this is a well executed exercise in self-parody. Consultant Ninja. Consulting. (88).

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Before you leave for your retreat, download our free vision exercise. Now you’re ready to do the vision exercise. Download our free vision exercise take with you on your retreat. Consulting Training and Education Top Consulting Tips Women in Business long term vision women in consulting' You work hard.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Strategy has traditionally been a top-down exercise conducted on an annual basis. Critical, Bob Weiler, Managing Founder of Brimstone Consulting, points out, is also looking at and understanding not only your competitors but also your suppliers and vendors. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

It does not come as a surprise that AI is mainly a focus of CIOs and CTOs who are concerned with developing AI strategies, which often entail building advanced IT infrastructures and investing in relevant talent.

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Data Case Interview Financial Tools 87

Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

What’s your framework around people and leadership –how do you identify, motivate, assess and develop talent? It’s a good exercise as it forces you to record your major achievements annually. The post Managing Career Transitions appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. How do you affect change? What do you want not to do?

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Management Leadership Resumes Journal 97

Kates Kesler

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

This will help ensure that designers work within the parameters of the compensation system, the compensation consultants work within the context of the given organization, and the HRBPs keep the pieces connected. But, global grading is not in itself an organization design exercise. Tom Jasinski, Senior Consultant.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 17, 2019

Following is a success story I received from a new BCG hire who has some insightful tips for those still recruiting as well as my follow-up where I elaborate on the importance of perseverance and hard work in obtaining a consulting offer. My way to consulting was not an easy one. First of all, thank you for all your great materials.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We started with her team because, in my work as a communication consultant, I’ve observed the same thing time and time again: how information is communicated to employees during a change matters more than what information is communicated. But the truth is that most leaders don’t actually know how to do it.

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Banking Interviews Retail Survey 53

Nash Consulting

APRIL 29, 2021

Our philosophy at Nash Consulting is that developing personal growth capacity is the most crucial of all leadership practices. The term “growth mindset” was coined by Carol Dweck of Stanford University and is defined as the ability to see ourselves as malleable and that we can develop new traits, talents, and characteristics.

Management 52

Management Development Journal Research 52

Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Strategy has traditionally been a top-down exercise conducted on an annual basis. Critical, Bob Weiler, Managing Founder of Brimstone Consulting, points out, is also looking at and understanding not only your competitors but also your suppliers and vendors. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success.

Agile 52

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Implementation typically involves experimentation, analyzing the existing strategies, and creative experiential learning exercises. Without a good implementation strategy and effective implementation, scenario planning is nothing more than an intellectual exercise. The most threatening competitor leadership teams face is themself."

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

I got the feedback that I do have the necessary skills to be a great management consultant , but it just took me too long to "see" the implications in the cases. Can you recommend particular "brain exercises" relevant for the problem-solving part of the case interview and consulting in general? Additional Resources.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. Sponsor/strategist: Sets or influences strategic direction and important decisions; exercises power on behalf of the organization; prepares future leaders.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40

Chad Barr

APRIL 27, 2007

Chad Barr is one of only 14 consultants in the world to have completed the inaugural Million Dollar Consulting Graduate School held in Naples, Florida in April 2007. Elite consultants representing the U.S., Canada, and Australia attended the program, all of them prior graduates of the Million Dollar Consulting College.

Consulting 40

Consulting Methodologies Case Study Case Studies 40