Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Taking a strategic approach to ESG can help you can a competitive advantage. An Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy is a cornerstone to accelerating impact and financial growth goals.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

” statement, people will immediately know why they want to work with you or refer you to friends or colleagues. And you’ll instantly stand out among the crowd because the majority of consultants and coaches don’t do this well. For consultants and coaches, traditional sales don’t work.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 17, 2024

Leverage effective inquiry tactics to diagnose organizational needs As a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), I belong to the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC USA) and the IMC Chicagoland Chapter. Frameworks do help to guide the process. The nuanced art of questioning requires a balance between inquiry and insight.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. You have to understand that you when you compress a marketing timeline - you are reducing how well you are able to warm up your leads. The 5 Tactics.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How to determine your new rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. Do some market-rate benchmarking to learn what other consultants are charging, or what clients are paying. How to do it and when You should probably do it now.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

Today, many leaders are asking how they can change the organizational culture. Here are six practical culture change strategies that will move your company closer toward your goal. Espoused Values: What you are told and beliefs that you can use to make decisions. How can Organizational Culture be Changed?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 11, 2024

We can all agree nothing is certain except death and taxes. Annual off-site meetings to change dates on unsuccessful strategies don't make sense. So, how can organizations and teams account for uncertainty and make progress on what matters? Ranking helps avoid cognitive errors in scenario planning.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. You have to understand that you when you compress a marketing timeline - you are reducing how well you are able to warm up your leads. The 5 Tactics.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

When companies look for a competitive advantage, there is often talk about making leadership development investments. But during these conversations, leadership development programs are typically questioned. The truth is that leadership is more than a position, and event-driven development often fails to create lasting change.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

One of the biggest challenges that both new and seasoned consultants and coaches face is finding the words to describe what they do. They go to networking events and try to explain that they are a consultant or coach but instead of getting head nods and curiosity.they experience the angst of the blank stares. You are not alone.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The role of a consultant is dynamic and complex, requiring a unique blend of skills that go beyond pure technical proficiency. In this 2-part article, I will outline the 5 key skills of an effective consultant, then discuss how to hone and highlight these skills.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

Management consulting is an industry that offers assistance with this kind of high-level decision-making and problem-solving. Management Consultants help businesses make strategic decisions that directly impact the entire company. They evaluate issues that the client is facing and help them develop action plans for improvement.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language. How to determine your new rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. My blog post, “ Quote Your Consulting Rate with Confidence ” can help with this.)

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language to use. How to determine your new billing rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. My blog post, “ Quote Your Consulting Rate with Confidence ” can help with this.)

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 26, 2010

It is atypical for me to write a book review for this blog, but Nilofer Merchant’s “ The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy ” is very respectable contribution to both audiences of this blog and the process of strategy development in general. options.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Especially if your first job is management consulting as you will be presented with many opportunities to jump into industry. Furthermore, given the uniqueness of each person’s situation and context, it’s especially difficult to write an exhaustive how-to article on this topic. Prioritize skill development over compensation.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the previous article , we introduced the key skills an effective consultant is expected to possess — but now what? As an aspiring consultant, simply knowing which skills to show on your CV is not enough; you’ll also need to know how to hone and highlight these skills, which is what we’ll be covering in this article.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it, consulting often gets a bad rap. To combat this bias, use work samples and deliverables to show prospective clients how you do what you do. For 10 years as an independent change strategy consultant, I used this tactic to win several projects. Instead, leave a list of your clients and references.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 20, 2022

“What are examples of some of the best consultant websites?” ” “Why does an independent consultant need a website?” ” As a specialist in design, copywriting, and marketing for consultants, I’m biased. I believe every consultant should have a website. It even instills confidence in you.

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Comatch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Grappling with complex topics, meeting demanding deadlines, and working long hours are all part and parcel of life as a consultant. So, while there’s no doubt that consulting can be a highly rewarding career, it’s easy to see how this lifestyle could lead to burnout. . 3 Reasons Hobbies Drive Productivity.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

Most consultants and coaches experience fears around money. The presence of money fears can be good if they act as alerts to be strategic about investments and with marketing and sales. The presence of money fears can be good if they act as alerts to be strategic about investments and with marketing and sales.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

Are you thinking about creating an online course but aren't sure if they are profitable for consultants? Watch this tutorial video and learn about the 3 types of profitable consulting courses and how they can amplify your client impact and profits. Betsy Jordyn : Hey, are you a consultant or coach?

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Management Consulted

MAY 29, 2016

Welcome to yet another opportunity to gain valuable insights from a book review, written by Preeti Vemu, MC intern, MC events organizer extraordinary, and an ex-Deloitte consultant. In this book, you will find more articles than you can stomach – awesome articles capturing key insights from the 1960s and moving forward to 2005.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

However, according to the survey by NewVantage Partners [1] conducted in 2021, only 24% of companies have managed to develop into data-driven ones. McKinsey consultancy suggests that the data-driven enterprise of 2025 will be characterized by certain processes [2]. Surprising figures, aren’t they? Cultural challenges.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 2, 2018

I know a consultant who is going to do some work designing a company’s program for high-potential employees. The consultant has talent but not much experience. Can you ballpark this for me? Louis Although the question is brief, a helpful answer is not. Dear Liz, I have a quick question. Pedigree matters.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Here is how to begin. Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. Stress is an emotional contagion.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 6, 2011

Eventually projects with consultants come to an end. Similar to completion of a good run as an employee of a firm, feelings at the end of a consulting project can be bittersweet. The mutual understanding of project duration with clients and consultants may be specified in terms of project phases.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Are you thinking about becoming a consultant but not sure what the consultant's role entails? Are you currently a consultant and tired of shadow boxing negative stereotypes about this role and want to be seen as an essential strategic partner to executives? I don't know how to break up the content. Transcript.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Are you tired of the endless chase for small-paying consulting gigs? Do you want to stop under-valuing yourself through sub-contracting with other consultants and take your place as a sought-after advisor to the C-Suite? It's a consequence of an intentional positioning strategy, which I will explain to you in this video.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2023

Listening is a gift that every leader can give. The hybrid workplace has not helped. The good news is that exploring, developing, and applying active listening can elevate your employees and grow your business. Suspending judgment can be tricky for leaders pressed for time.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 8, 2021

One aspect of consulting career development that I don’t think those new to the industry sufficiently appreciate is the importance of having a community of mentors. Yes, most firms have a system whereby each consultant is required to have a designated mentor to be an official guide (formally titled Coach, Counselor, etc.).

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2024

Critical reflection can create personal discomfort and internal conflict as you wrestle with favorable self-perceptions. Critical thinking helps leaders navigate volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous situations common in every business. link] How to apply critical reflection Your inner game silently controls your outer game.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Becoming a better thinker requires you to understand the way you think, how you view the world, and developing a way of approaching problems that allows you to see things through multiple lenses. We refer to these lenses as ‘mental models’. You can think of mental models as tools in your mental toolbox.

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QEmploy

JUNE 10, 2019

Podcasts are the future of self-learning and we made a list of 60 IT podcasts that IT consultants can learn from. Be it smartphones, laptops, tablets, social media networks or virtual businesses, they are all dependent on developing software and technologies. So how can you learn about IT? The podcast list.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 2, 2018

Last August I wrote a blog post about how labels matter , specifically that you should make more money by calling yourself a consultant instead of a contractor. It’s not enough to simply replace contractor with consultant on your résumé and LinkedIn profile. How do they do it while contractors struggle? We just know.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). So, how does big data create value for consulting firms?

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