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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

6-minute read In the past few months, I’ve run several team development days for board-level teams in different sectors. And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. This includes those coming as guests to present at a board meeting, as well as some board members, themselves.

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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. For example, years ago I worked on a system implementation for a company where our mantra was, “We will go live on April five.”

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Leadership Development – bringing the team together

The Management Centre

In this interview, Rebecca Cooper, Head of People and Development at ACT Training shares her experience of what effective leadership development looks like in action. We were looking for a programme to develop the leadership skills and philosophy of the team. How did it develop?

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Upgrade your Legacy System without Disrupting your Project-based Organization

Progressus

Project-based organizations that are still utilizing legacy systems today have a host of potential system failure, compliance, and integration concerns. According to the United States Government Accountability Office , ten of the government’s legacy systems cost approximately $337 million annually to operate and maintain.

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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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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

Whether it’s how your group comes together to collaborate on project budget development or the systems you use to maintain stakeholder engagement, a willingness to blend new and old methods gives you wider access to options that can lead to the perfect strategy for your unique situation.

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The Hidden Costs of Under-Investing in your Business Development

Consulting Matters

As a mentor who helps people turn their life work into their own businesses, I meet a lot of highly trained and experienced professionals with both vision.and fear. A smart marketing system that consistently fills your pipeline with clients. So here's the real hidden cost of under-investing in your business development.