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4 Proven Ways to Earn Higher Fees With Every Consulting Proposal

Consulting Success

Let’s talk about how you can earn higher fees with every proposal that you put out. Here’s are 4 keys to higher fees with your consulting proposals. 1. Raise Your Value Before Sending The Proposal It doesn’t start with the proposal. It’s not even your approach to the proposal. It’s all about the conversation you have before the proposal.

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How to Identify and Tell Your Most Powerful Stories

Harvard Business

Jeong Woo Kim/EyeEm/Getty Images. When I ask executives what their favorite speech is, Steve Jobs’s Stanford commencement address is always at the top of the list. Many think of Jobs’s talk as their favorite because it is incredibly moving — thanks to the stories it contains. Execs love to hear talks like this, but few are comfortable delivering them.

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How Does Culture Affect the Workplace?

LSA Global

How Does Culture Affect the Workplace? As clear and compelling as your strategy may be, it must go through your culture to be successfully implemented. Because your workplace culture must be aligned with your strategy, smart leaders ask “How does culture affect the workplace?”. The relationship between culture and strategy was recently highlighted in a study of 1,200 senior executives by Bain where 91% agreed that “culture is as important as strategy for business success.”.

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If Strategy Is So Important, Why Don?t We Make Time for It?

Harvard Business

Jonathan-Knowles/Getty Images. Almost every leader wants to make more time for strategic thinking. In one survey of 10,000 senior leaders, 97% of them said that being strategic was the leadership behavior most important to their organization’s success. And yet in another study , a full 96% of the leaders surveyed said they lacked the time for strategic thinking.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Shipping the work

Seth Godin Blog

A few years ago, I self-published a workbook called the Shipit Journal. It instantly sold out, so I went back to press two more times, and they sold out as well. The Shipit Journal works for a simple reason: It’s difficult to write things down. Difficult to break a project into small pieces and take ownership over each one. Mostly, it’s difficult to announce to yourself and to your team that you’re actually on the hook to do great work.

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Using Non-Verbal Communication Skills Effectively to Sell Your Services

MBO Partners

As an independent professional, non-verbal communication skills are key when selling your services to a prospective client. We review three major types of non-verbal communication and techniques for improving each.

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How Are You Protecting Your High Performers from Burnout?

Harvard Business

Phil Ashley/Getty Images. A little over a year ago, a high-performing specialist at one of the largest technologies companies — we’ll call him Santiago — was given an opportunity no high performer could turn down: an opportunity to play a manager role on a project he really cared about. The director told him, “You care about this; you lead it.” So he did, and all seemed to be going well — even though he was planning a significant company-wide event at the same