Tue.Nov 10, 2020

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What’s Your Consulting Firm’s Theme for Next Year?

David A Fields

Your consulting firm is hurtling toward the start a new year. Well, technically, every day commences a new year, but your calendar proclaims January 1st as the start of the Gregorian calendar year, so let’s go with that. More important than your choice of calendars is your choice of your consulting firm’s theme for the … Continued. The post What’s Your Consulting Firm’s Theme for Next Year?

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Don't Let This Happen to Your Work From Home Colleagues

Markovitz Consulting

A client of mine has started to bring some of their employees back into the office. They’re not ending their work from home policies, but increasingly higher ranking staff are coming back to the mothership, particularly for important meetings. This shift makes sense for many reasons, but it’s having three unfortunate side effects. First, the work from home employees are beginning to have middle school flashbacks, where they’re definitely not part of the cool crowd, and they have to eat lunch at

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Performance Management During COVID-19

Makarios Consulting

COVID-19 has upended the way we do business. A remote workforce, virtual meetings, video conferencing, and the like are the new normal. If you are a leader used to managing your people in person, you might find yourself at loose ends asking, “How do I manage people I am not physically with? How do I know if they are working productively … or working at all?

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Playing The Long Game In Business

Kai Davis

The latest episode of The Business of Freelancing features Alex Hillman (co-founder of Stacking the Bricks and Indy Hall), who shares lessons for freelancers and indie consultants from his recently released book, The Tiny MBA. Alex drops a ton of wisdom in this episode about how to tackle and unpack some of the issues we face with money psychology, playing the long game of business, and more.

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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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Performance Management During COVID-19

Makarios Consulting

COVID-19 has upended the way we do business. A remote workforce, virtual meetings, video conferencing, and the like are the new normal. If you are a leader used to managing your people in person, you might find yourself at loose ends asking, “How do I manage people I am not physically with? How do I know if they are working productively … or working at all?

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How to do a process landscaping exercise

Consulthon

Hi everyone, I am working for a client, doing a high-level assessment of their processes. I also need to do a heatmap of which processes are the most "eligible" to be improved at a later stage and.

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Managing Working Parents During the Pandemic

Harvard Business

A conversation with Purdue professor Ellen Ernst Kossek on managing with predictability and flexibility.

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How do you stay engaged to your work during the pandemic?

Consulthon

As the pandemic and a flurry of current events wear on, so does work. You’re stressed, exhausted, and overwhelmed. You’re eager for this to be over. There are certainly days when you’d like to just.

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Turn Your Team’s Frustration into Motivation

Harvard Business

Channel negative energy into positive action.

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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 do you implement a Marketing Automation strategy?

Consulthon

Have you implemented a Marketing Automation Strategy? So many marketers fail to get the most out of their marketing automation platform — basically using their software the same way they’d used the.

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How to Brief a Senior Executive

Harvard Business

Lessons from an Obama White House staffer.

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A theatre of dominance

Seth Godin Blog

Organized sports often turn into a play about status roles and dominance. Bullfighting, pro wrestling, even hockey, are about who’s winning, who’s losing and who’s in charge. But they are also theatres of affiliation. The fans celebrate their unity as well as their divisions. The pomp and circumstance are a form of culture. There are insiders and outsiders, and the right way and the wrong way.

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A Better Model for Economic Forecasting During the Pandemic

Harvard Business

Marry quantitative transaction data with qualitative analyses of consumer sentiment.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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3 Steps to Creating a Winning Sales Team

1 to 1

When it comes to sales, you can’t play the game without a great team. So how can companies put together the best team possible to execute winning sales strategies and objectives? I recently spoke with TTEC Chief Revenue Officer Judi Hand about how to build a roster of great sales playmakers in TTEC’s web series, “The Ultimate Sales Conversion Highlight Reel.

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“Data Trusts” Could Be the Key to Better AI

Harvard Business

They allow organizations to pool data — while ensuring it’s used responsibly.

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Three Ideas to Create Safety in Remote Retrospectives

Johanna Rothman

A Scrum Master asked, “How can I engage my team during a remote retrospective? People tell me things they think we could change. Then, we get into the retro and I know people are looking at their phones, not engaged. Got ideas?” I do. These ideas refer to safety. That's because teams need safety for engagement. Here are my three ideas: Create the conditions for success: equipment.

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The Challenges of Commercializing Fertility

Harvard Business

What would an egg-freezing service sell ­– and to whom?

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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How difficult is to implement a single sign-in process?

Consulthon

Hi All, My company uses too many systems that require a password. Since March 2020 we have bought even more and quite often the systems are not married, which means - many different passwords are.

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How a Corporate Giant Can Support Your Startup (and Vice Versa) - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ENEL

Harvard Business

Sponsor content from Enel.

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Trump: The End of an Era

The Fearless Marketer

Well, it’s over. And in celebration, I’m featuring the videos of the comedians who have kept me sane and laughing over the past four years. Stephen Colbert. Trevor Noah. Seth Meyers. Jimmy Kimmel. Saturday Night Live. The post Trump: The End of an Era appeared first on Action Plan Marketing.

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How Biden Won Back (Enough of) the White Working Class

Harvard Business

He showed up, talked about jobs, and treated voters with respect.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.