Tue.Oct 25, 2022

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How to Attract Consulting Clients, Even if You Abhor the Limelight

David A Fields

“I just want to do the work. I don’t like marketing myself or selling.” That’s a common sentiment among the leaders of very small consulting firms. It also pervades the “next generation” at almost every consulting firm trying to expand its leadership ranks. Since leading a consulting firm generally requires you to excel in business … Continued.

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Create Values That Support Your Culture

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

If you’re like most organizations today, you’re struggling to attract, train, develop, promote, and retain great team members. Heck, you’re struggling to find and retain team members – regardless of how great they may be! You’re also dealing with a myriad of supply chain and pricing issues, social and political divisiveness, altered expectations of […].

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Acknowledge Everyone’s Emotions for a Congruent Layoff Conversation, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Any time we mess with people's money, status, or ability to work, we create emotions—for ourselves and the other person. As managers, when we offer a job or a promotion, those emotions tend to be happy. But layoffs? Those emotions are rarely happy—for anyone. If we try to bury those feelings, we might appear as if we don't care. If we think of ourselves, we become drama kings and queens.

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6 Factors That Determine Your Company’s Valuation

Harvard Business

Investors have a quantitative understanding of how the market values a company. Management teams should too.

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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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It’s not the last mile

Seth Godin Blog

It’s the first mile. Big tech likes to talk about the last mile problem–how to get a wire, a system or a concept from where the nodes are easy to plant to where people actually are. As if the hard part is what they’ve already done, and now it’s just the last little bit… None of it matters if the people aren’t connected.

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Perfect might be the enemy of good in group dynamics and choice making

Seth Godin Blog

When one person needs to fix a wall, adjust a cabinet or choose what to serve for dinner, they can optimize their choice. Make appropriate trade-offs. Take responsibility for the path chosen. But when a group of people are asked to do the same thing, it’s easy to err on the side of the pursuit of perfect, or to choose to average things out. And so the legal team weighs in, and consultants are hired.

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A Better Way to Recognize Your Employees

Harvard Business

Three tips for managers.

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4 Steps to Drive Effective Circular Strategies for Consumer Goods and Retail Businesses - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM EY-PARTHENON

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from EY-Parthenon.

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Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business

Harvard Business

Mutually beneficial partnerships can both drive profit and alleviate poverty.

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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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Fixing the U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chain

Harvard Business

Capacity is just one component of resilience.

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Understanding Influential Older Americans Depends on Trustworthy Data and Insights - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM NORC

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from NORC.

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