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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. First, consultants are good at helping clients solve problems but usually aren’t trained in sales or marketing. It seems like a lifetime ago we worked together on the travel card rollout at NetApp.

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Q&A with Bob Weiler

Brimstone Consulting

Strategy, organization structure, business growth, business acceleration, marketing, leadership development. When I founded Brimstone with the vision to help business leaders drive their success by simultaneously delivering results, transforming and aligning the organization, and developing leadership talent.

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Boeing Starliner Failure: Lessons for Your Lean Program

Markovitz Consulting

I’ve seen companies create a Kaizen Promotion Office, develop a comprehensive Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training curriculum, and invest in expensive andon systems, but they’re not making any real progress towards their business goals. It’s with the simple synching of front line workers with the leadership.

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Warning: Pessimism is Hazardous to Your Health

Rick Conlow

Keep learning by regularly attending training or education courses. Develop your sense of humor. In addition, go here for our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website. Finally, do you want to accelerate your leadership success? Self-Satisfaction. Recognition. Family Time.

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22 Success Quotes that will Inspire and Motivate You

Rick Conlow

That is to say, you can accelerate your career development. Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.” — Robert Frost. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. If so, check out Rick’s Superstar Leadership Performance Plan. Summing It All Up.

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Instead, a better question is, how can you develop quality coaching relationships through technology? Affordability improves through reduced travel and associated time out of the office costs. Implications for organizational learning and development in a wired world. Boyce, Center for Creative Leadership. & Ely, K.

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

In the expectation that we will soon be competing with machines, it seems worthwhile to train our “soft skill muscles.” – Anna Julius Even though we know the importance of this skillset, many people don’t know how to develop or improve their soft skills. Empathy is currently on the rise as the most important leadership skill.