Wed.May 04, 2022

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The Best Venn Diagram of All Time for Consulting Firms

David A Fields

Your consulting firm needs to communicate information to your clients. Approaches, findings, insights, and recommendations, not to mention proposals, demographics, candy preference and more. Clients, on the other hand, often need a quick visual depiction of information. The intersection of information and visuals is a Venn diagram, and your consulting firm must include at least … Continued.

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The new realism: Changing the way we talk about consulting 

The Source

Clients want consultants to stop selling promises. Really? “I get so frustrated with consulting firms,” commented the CIO of a Wisconsin-based manufacturing company we interviewed a couple of years ago. “They always operate at 30,000 feet, but many of the problems we face—and I deal with daily—are down in the weeds. I need consultants to be in the weeds more.”.

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Do you need to influence someone? Get on the same page

The Management Centre

What’s the Big Idea? If you want to have a good relationship with your colleagues, managers and leaders at work, the best thing to do is to perform your job well. But there will be times when you need to actively influence someone – to get help or resources, to get buy-in for your ideas, or to raise a particularly difficult problem. And to do this effectively you need to communicate in a way that works for them – which is where understanding Social Styles can help.

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The Future Of Work: 5 Most Important Trends To Watch

Simon Associates

If I had to choose a catchphrase for the world of work today, it would be a mashup of Back To The Future and The Fast And The Furious. It's not hard to see that the changes of tomorrow are coming fast (in many cases, they're already here), disrupting everything we thought we knew. For both employers and employees, the pandemic was the catalytic moment that transformed where and how we work, but the trends were there beforehand.

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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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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. This is an increasingly common scenario since the pandemic (more on it later). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work.

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Full out

Seth Godin Blog

It’s thrilling. Nothing held in reserve. All in, leaving nothing behind. It’s easy to get hooked on this. And it’s easy to never experience it. The internet has made each path more attractive. It can put us into always-on mode, in a worldwide competition against infinite competitors and inputs in which the goal always seems within reach and also never arrives.

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Platforms Need to Work with Their Users – Not Against Them

Harvard Business

To stay relevant, the winners of Web2 need to start using the tools of Web3.

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What’s Your Topic This Week?

Chad Barr

A while back I created the infographic to answer the question of Where Do Ideas Come From? Hopefully this visual stimulates your mind to identify the proper resources to help you gain new ideas. In today’s article I would like to explore and share some of the most prevalent ways of identifying new topics to help you with your content creation.

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Managers, What Are You Doing About Change Exhaustion?

Harvard Business

Don’t rely on individual resilience. Tackle it as a team.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How Women Can Identify Male Allies in the Workplace

Harvard Business

Beware of performative allyship.

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