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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Virtual Meetings: Eight Rules of Etiquette

Tom Spencer

The concept of virtual meetings is fairly simple. You host a meeting that would otherwise be held physically via an online platform, most probably Teams. One may assume that the etiquette that applies to in-person meetings would also apply to virtual meetings. Make a conscious effort to control your gaze during meetings.

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Bridging the Gap: From the Consulting Industry to the Management Consulting Profession

Effective Managers

In the world of consulting, a distinction is often overlooked: the difference between the industry at large and the profession of management consulting. Understanding the Consulting Industry The consulting industry is broad and diverse, encompassing a wide range of services, expertise, and methodologies.

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An Overview of Business Development Consulting

Tom Spencer

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. Business development consultants enable companies to reach their full potential and rescue companies that are struggling to survive. We don’t understand the value and we’re too busy to think about it.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

More meetings. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue. Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. Intensifying competition.

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Trends Shaping the Automotive Industry in 2022

Epicflow

This year, the automotive industry is expected to continue its recovery following the headwinds of tough 2020. The general outlook for 2022 is rather optimistic – the industry is going to take further steps towards producing smarter vehicles. The prospects for further EV market development are presented in the image below. [2]

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Consulting Industry vs. Consulting Profession

The Consultants Peer Group

The consulting industry is a broad, inclusive term that refers to all companies and individuals that offer consulting services, or sellers of expertise. These can range from large multi-national firms to boutique firms that specialize in specific industries or functions and to individuals, all together make the industry.