Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In order to manage your money, you need to know how much is coming in and where it is going. Managing time is no different. For consultants, the average work day will consume the majority of that time, around 10-12 hours. Now that you know how much time you have, do you know where it is being used?

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 5, 2018

Consultants and vendors both bring expertise to the marketplace. Vendors typically offer thoroughly designed and tested products. It might be a course in time management or project management or a one-day team building retreat. Maybe it is a “package” of marketing materials for a new product launch.

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Women in Consulting

JULY 19, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product. The organization wonders why no one can “meet” a deadline. Why three months?

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails. Does this need to be a meeting? We also helped to develop a decision tree focused on accepting and declining meetings.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Through teamwork you learn how to assert your position and also how compromise in all areas where a decision needs to be made: separating roles and responsibilities, selecting fonts and graphics to use in a presentation, creating a meeting agenda, deciding on a meeting place and time, you get the idea. Time management.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. You’ll find the link here. Click here for the link.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

Why consulting? This guide contains everything you need to know about being a freelance consultant, answer the questions you might have, and tell you what to be aware of. This guide works for everyone who thinks about getting into consulting, but also for current consultants who might have some questions. Why consulting?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Without corporate mandates such as weekly team meetings or biweekly project check-ins, entrepreneurs have the ability to wipe out bureaucratic red tape and reach new heights of productivity. Here are four strategies self-employed professionals can use to schedule meetings more effectively. You and Your Team Series.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. However, too many managers still work independently. That’s a problem when the teams have organizational problems a single manager can’t solve. Instead of managers working alone, what if we had teams of managers? Benefits of Management Teams.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I still see so many teams spend weeks at a time estimating projects they won't start for years. Or, that someone is supposed to estimate ROI when no one has done any small experiments to see if anyone would buy/use this product/feature. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. I'm always off.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 29, 2021

Managers often miss the greatest leadership principle of all-time. Let’s get to where the rubber meets the road. They give you clues to what’s going on in organizations, and the potential impact of The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time. This is true about what it takes to be a successful leader.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails. Does this need to be a meeting? We also helped to develop a decision tree focused on accepting and declining meetings.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 14, 2020

” Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the average workday in the United States has increased by 40% and time spent in meetings has increased by almost 30%. The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

International Coach Federation (ICF) Research: The ICF conducts extensive research on coaching, and their studies have found that 70% of individuals who received coaching reported improved work performance, communication skills, and productivity. Personnel Management: A study compared training alone to coaching and training.

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Comatch

MAY 26, 2023

Like in most lines of work, soft skills are critical to your success as an independent consultant, perhaps even more so. And the best part: This is true for soft skills such as communication, resilience, or time management – just like training to be a data analyst or mastering a foreign language. Awesome, isn’t it?

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

All of which are very relevant to the work I do today, the products I create, and the articles and tips I share on my newsletter ( [link] ). Time management secrets of billionaires. Executing effective meetings. Value-added sales messaging. The importance of using market data in your sales messaging. Hiring superstars.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The manager and employee (and possibly other members of the team) are thrust into fire-drill mode because the presentation is the next day and it has to be re-done in a deadline-driven rush. How much time would it have taken to check for understanding in the initial delegation meeting? Ten minutes? Perhaps fifteen?

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The manager and employee (and possibly other members of the team) are thrust into fire-drill mode because the presentation is the next day and it has to be re-done in a deadline-driven rush. How much time would it have taken to check for understanding in the initial delegation meeting? Ten minutes? Perhaps fifteen?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. What might happen to the various cycle times?

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Four Thousand Weeks is explicitly not about productivity, getting things done, or tips and tricks to answer more emails. The more you try to manage your time with the goal of achieving a feeling of total control, and freedom from the inevitable constraints of being human, the more stressful, empty, and frustrating life gets.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

Additionally, improving your processes and building out your business systems becomes more important and more time-consuming at the same time. At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

Tensions surrounding the pandemic appear to be decreasing, polling from Morning Consult found that as of Feb. Inclusivity with virtual game nights, fitness and mental health activities, happy hours and discussion boards can help bridge that gap between coworkers who may never meet in person. Many workers ask, ‘why go back?’.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” Early in your career, it can be flattering that someone respects your opinion and your network enough to want to meet you. 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.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

How can a busy professional become more productive when there is only so much time in the day? This frees up your time so that you can spend it where it is really valuable. Attending physicians delegate to residents, senior consultants to junior consultants, and CMOs to their marketing directors.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

For example, get a reminder to turn your meetings into “walking meetings” on any day when it isn’t raining, or a reminder to leave the office early if you worked too late the night before. Consultant Vida Morkunas recommends the Chains.cc Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

Yet, all too often, employees find themselves being treated unfairly – their boss makes decisions concerning them without consultation or due process, or their boss is inconsistent in applying rules. They may think that their boss is incompetent or biased, or even worse, just plain mean.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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). Meeting up with other work-from-homers to “keep each other company” is like that.

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