Mon.Feb 05, 2018

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The Real Shortcut to Consulting Success

Consulting Success

Transcript: I want to talk about a shortcut to success, and I want to share this with you because I believe that a lot of people these days are looking for a shortcut to success. They’re looking for the secret to create more fame, to create more riches, to create just greater levels of success in a very short period of time, and I want to suggest that you actually know what that shortcut is.

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Building Credibility with Potential Clients

Consultant Journal

Building credibility – it’s a one of the major skills that every professional needs. Whether you are working as an entrepreneur, consultant, running your own business, or a professional, you need to prove you can deliver well. Establishing credibility can be difficult when you are just beginning — especially when you’re trying to prove your worth to a potential client who doesn’t know the real you yet.

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10 Obsessive Ways You’re Undermining Your Business

The Fearless Marketer

Roger is an independent professional creative, much like you and me. He does his own specialized version of consulting, coaching, and training. Roger is great at what he does and has had many successes, but he often feels unfulfilled and dissatisfied with the progress of his business and marketing. Results don’t seem to come fast enough; he feels he should always be doing more, and yet his long working hours are leading to burnout, not the results he craves.

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How to Banish Bad Habits from Your Company

Strategy+Business

Bad habits may be so ingrained in a company that its leaders may not spot them. And that is a challenge for any company hoping to deal with disruption.

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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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Ban These 5 Words From Your Corporate Values Statement

Harvard Business

CSA Images/Getty Images. Practically every organization today has a set of core values that ideally function as the “operating instructions” of the company. The goal of articulating the essential and enduring principles of your organization is to inform, inspire, and instruct the day-to-day behaviors of everyone who works at your company.

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Before You Set New Goals, Think About What You’re Going to Stop Doing

Harvard Business

Tim Robberts/Getty Images. Remember your new year’s resolutions? Are you still doing them? If the answer is “no,” most likely you fell into the trap that stops most individuals from accomplishing their resolutions: not consciously taking old activities out of their schedule to make room for the new. It’s the equivalent of trying to stuff more papers into a file drawer that’s already packed tight or going into debt to cover additional purchases.

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Empathetic doesn't mean doormat

Seth Godin Blog

It's essential to find empathy for the people you hope to serve, to teach, to work with. Without it, you can't find the place they're stuck, you can't help them move in the direction they seek to go. But it's entirely possible that your empathy will lead to a moment where you need to say 'no'. "I just bought a new car from you, drove it for a thousand miles, but now, I've broken my arm in a fall and I won't be able to drive for a while.

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FIR: Melissa Agnes and Shel Holtz Discuss Crock-Pot and Tide Pod Challenge Incidents

Melissa Agnes

Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Shel Holtz about the Crock-Pot and Tide Pod Challenge incidents, on his widely recognized PR Podcast, “For Immediate Release” (“FIR”). My conversation with Shel begins at roughly the 6-minute mark, where we spend a good 15 minutes discussing: Whether the Tide Pod Challenge and the Crock-Pot incidents were issues or crises – and why; The impact of emotion and relatability, and how each of these brands chose to respond to

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3 New Strategy Questions to Ask Before Launching a New Strategy

LSA Global

New Strategy Questions to Ask Before Launching a New Strategy. Based upon input from leaders around the globe, we have identified three new strategy questions to ask before launching a new strategy. Go Slow to Go Fast. We get it. You have spent so much time and effort in designing your new strategy that you can’t wait to start executing it. You’re convinced that your leadership team’s plans will send your business in new and exciting directions.

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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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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

PhotoAlto/Jorge Goncalves/Getty Images. Can we please agree that there is no such thing as a corporate entrepreneur? The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. There is an ocean of difference between people innovating or designing new offerings inside a large company, and actual entrepreneurs.

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Teaming up With Other Independent Professionals: How to Find the Right Partner

MBO Partners

Teaming up with other independent professionals can open the door to larger project opportunities. Here's how to find the right consulting partner.

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The False Choice Between Automation and Jobs

Harvard Business

making_ultimate/Getty Images. We live in a world where productivity, a key pillar of long-term economic growth, has crumbled. In the United States, Europe, and other advanced economies, productivity growth has slowed so drastically in the past decade that economists debate whether we have entered a new era of stagnation—and this at a time when we need productivity growth more than ever to sustain growth, as working populations in countries from Germany to Japan age and shrink.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Data Scientist to Fill This Must-Have Analytics Role

Harvard Business

Artur Debat/Getty Images. It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Along the way, there’s been plenty of literature and executive hand-wringing over hiring and deploying ever-scarce data scientists to make this happen.

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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.