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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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For Independent Consultants, Business Development = Relationship Development

Successful Independent Consulting

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. To meet the challenge I recommend changing your frame of reference. Once a quarter I get a postcard of upcoming social and sporting events in the city. It’s vexing for a variety of reasons.

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How to avoid boring team meetings

The Management Centre

Meetings can be fun, empowering and a way to enable new thinking. Sadly, they can also be the polar opposite – dull, frustrating events where nothing gets decided and everyone’s time is wasted. We often hear from participants on our training programmes that they actually dread team meetings. Connection? All of the above?

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Go Ahead, Skip that Networking Event

Harvard Business

We’ve probably all been to at least one networking event, those initially promising but inevitably awkward meet-ups where most people arrive hoping to meet new contacts that can further their career — but end up stirring their drink in the corner of the room chatting with someone they already knew.

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Planning and Running a Strategy Offsite

Tom Spencer

Before the offsite, make sure you and your team are clear on what you hope to achieve during the event, as well as how you will measure success after it. Your objectives might include: Working together to develop a clear set of strategic priorities and desired measurable outcomes that the team fully commits to.

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Top Learning and Development Mistakes to Avoid

LSA Global

Learning and Development Mistakes. Corporate Learning and Development has come a long way but still has far to go. And despite spending almost $360 billion (yes, with a “b”) globally on corporate training, most learning and development functions struggle to change on-the-job behavior and performance. One and Done”.

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Quick Guide to a Career in Product Design

Tom Spencer

Product design is more creative than engineering, more practical than art, and more hands-on than graphic design Product design is a field that involves the creation and development of new products or product improvements. Conclusion Product design is a field that involves the creation and development of new products or product improvements.