Consulting Success

AUGUST 13, 2018

Whether you’re an executive, a VP, a director, or whatever your level is within an organization, in most cases, it’s not about you. Everything that you do is about the company. Even though much of the success the company is seeing is directly connected to you, you somehow feel uncomfortable talking about your accomplishments and contribution. When you leave the corporate world and decide to become a consultant, if you carry the same mindset that.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 13, 2018

Being self-employed isn’t easy. Not only do you have to develop, market, and deliver professional services at a very high level, you also need to accomplish all of this in relative isolation. The majority of self-employed consultants, coaches, and trainers run their businesses from a home office (often a spare bedroom). And although this saves on overhead and eliminates the headaches of commuting, it can be lonely, de-motivating, and discouraging — especially when business is challenging.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 13, 2018

Introducing the Clarity Communications list of the best 10 Learning and Development (L&D) blogs. A great blog provides solid content that makes the important points of a topic easy to grasp. To make our list, a blog must be interesting and entertaining while at the same time providing useful information. Each blog on our list is useful for anyone in the field who wants to further their understanding and sharpen their skills.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/Getty Images. There are lots of compelling reasons to build a better team. Great teams deliver stronger results, faster. They’re more innovative. They challenge you to learn more quickly and to be at your best. And, let’s face it — they’re simply more fun to work with. Recently, I found a new reason to build a better team — to address the fact that most of us are surprisingly lacking in self-awareness.

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MBO Partners

AUGUST 13, 2018

Presence is a valuable tool that can help self-employed professionals build better relationships and manage stress and anxiety. Here’s what you need to know about mindful awareness and how to practice it in your daily life.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2018

On this episode of the podcast, I’m having a Strengths conversation with my colleague and our Director of Business Development, Logan Joyce. More specifically, we’re having what we call a "push" conversation. These are dialogues between two people where you intentionally push Strengths to the center. You can talk about everyday things but intentionally reference your strengths and the strengths of the other person so that you’re practicing the language of strengths.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 13, 2018

“What should we do with all the left-handed people?” “There are far too many people in this organization who wear glasses. It’s hurting our ability to compete.” Here’s a simple trick: Every time you consider identifying a group to exclude, overlook or fear, every time you consider naming your football team after an ethnic or cultural group, or wonder about how a group makes you feel… Substitute a label or perhaps a slur that’s been used against a g

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

Adopt these mindsets and behaviors.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2018

Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder. The post A Conversation about how your Strengths help you stay Curious (podcast) appeared first on Leadership Vision.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

Tintan/Getty Images. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? What can firms do better than markets? And what are the distinctive qualities of firms in a world of smart contracts and AI? While there has been a lot of discussion about “what’s left for humans?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

Martin Barraud/Getty Images. China’s two retailing powerhouses, online commerce pioneer Alibaba and social media-gaming pioneer Tencent, have systematically established a duopoly of record proportions in record time. Combined, they have spent more than $20 billion in the past 12 months alone to change the way people in China shop. (The precise value of their investments cannot be determined, given that many of them are undisclosed or private deals.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

sandy millar/Getty Images. When I gave birth to my daughter over a year ago, I worked for an employer that provides no paid parental leave: the U.S. government. I was able to cobble together vacation and sick time with unpaid leave for four months. But I did not feel ready to go back to work, physically or emotionally, until my daughter was closer to seven months old — when she was sitting up, investigating new toys, eating pureed solids, and getting ready to scoot around her daycare room.

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