Jacq Hackett Consulting
JUNE 28, 2018
Running a business as a solo consultant can be daunting in the early days. And even when you've been at it for a while, there are times when things threaten to go south, and you start to feel overwhelmed. But there are a few basic, practical things you can put in place that will help.
Consulting Success
JUNE 28, 2018
Michael was recently featured on the Action Now CFO podcast, which you can listen to here: Helping Elite Consultants Achieve Success: Co-Owner of “Consulting Success” Michael Zipursky How do you pick your ideal target market? Why do you have to create content for your business and for your clients? What’s the mindset you must adopt when it comes to marketing your consulting business?
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Jacq Hackett Consulting
JUNE 28, 2018
There are days as a consultant when things are going wonderfully. You’ve got a lot of work in the pipeline. Your current projects are going well. And you pat yourself on the back for making such a smart decision by making the move to consultancy. And then a few things go wrong: A project has been delayed due to an issue at the client end and now it looks like you have a clash of timeframes with another project.
Henry DeVries
JUNE 28, 2018
"Managing projects is critically important, but we don't spend much time or effort getting good at it,” says Seth Godin. “What we need is a structured approach, a framework for getting things done.
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Jacq Hackett Consulting
JUNE 28, 2018
There are days as a consultant when things are going wonderfully. You’ve got a lot of work in the pipeline. Your current projects are going well. And you pat yourself on the back for making such a smart decision by making the move to consultancy. And then a few things go wrong: A project has been delayed due to an issue at the client end and now it looks like you have a clash of timeframes with another project.
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Johanna Rothman
JUNE 28, 2018
Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Often, in the form of Scrum. Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. I suggested the team review its WIP limits and think about limiting the WIP for the entire team. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 28, 2018
We sort people all the time. Society prefers easy, useless ones. Sorts like: Skin color. Gender. Disability status. Nationality. Religious background. Height. While these are easy to do and the result of long, long traditions, they’re useless. The alternatives? Kindness. Expertise. Attitude. Skill. Emotional intelligence. Honesty. Generous persistence.
Harvard Business
JUNE 28, 2018
MATJAZ SLANIC/Getty Images. William Wrigley Jr., the American chewing gum tycoon, once noted that business is built by men who disagree, and that “When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord.
LSA Global
JUNE 28, 2018
We’ve Learned About How Employees Learn. We have finally learned about how employees learn. There’s “old school” learning and there’s “new school” learning. Learning by the old school method involved a lot of lecture, repetition, memorizing and a “one-size-fits-all” approach. It worked to a degree. But we have since learned how employees learn more effectively – specifically about the process of learning that leads to better understanding, lasting retention and measurable on-the-job beh
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Harvard Business
JUNE 28, 2018
Tim Robberts/Getty Images. When an employee at your company asks for a raise, is that person treated fairly? Most organizations would like to say yes. But new data from PayScale, a compensation software and data company (disclosure: I work there), reveals that too often this is not the case. We surveyed more than 160,000 workers between November 2017 and April 2018 as part of our PayScale Raise Anatomy study , which resulted in two major findings.
Gina Abudi
JUNE 28, 2018
Many organizations focus on strengthening emotional intelligence (EI) of their management staff. While this is important, just as important is strengthening EI of all employees – at all levels, especially those employees who interact with customers. Strong emotional intelligence enables us to avoid or reduce conflicts and to manage through them when they do occur. [.].
Harvard Business
JUNE 28, 2018
Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Blockchain technology has the potential to do amazing things. It can provide an immutable, digital audit trail of transactions, and can be used to cheaply verify the integrity of data. It can help businesses and individuals agree, on a global scale, about the true state of affairs within a market without relying on a costly intermediary.
Cheryl Cran
JUNE 28, 2018
Find out more from future of work expert Cheryl Cran on “If Robots Are The Future of Work – What Does It Mean for Humans?” The future is already upon us – robots are being used in manufacturing, defense, healthcare and more. Automation is taking over mundane tasks and freeing up humans to pursue ‘profound’ […].
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MBO Partners
JUNE 28, 2018
Follow these three tips to use your professional network to land new work.
CaseInterview.com
JUNE 28, 2018
In my mentorship program, one of the recurring topics I discuss is how to be more powerful and influential with others at work. Here’s one powerful technique that I’ve taught my Inner Circle members in the past that I’ll share with you today. I call it the “You’re Mostly Right” technique. When you’re arguing with somebody, the simplest way to get them to listen to you is to agree with them.
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