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Step 2 in the Ideal Conversation with Consulting Prospects

David A Fields

Many of your conversations with outstanding prospects don’t lead to high-potential opportunities. Let’s talk about why that may be happening and an easy fix that will create more juice in your business development efforts.

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Power Networking for Consultants

Consulting Matters

I am confident that you get how important networking is to your marketing system. You know that its an essential way for you to regularly meet and impress your future clients. The question is: Are you making the most of these events? Are you making the most of the events that you invest time and money to attend? And as importantly - are you taking advantage of the networking events that you may not even realize you're attending every week?

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Get what you want

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: This podcast from Shane Parrish, interviewing Chris Voss, former FBI Hostage Negotiator will entertain and educate you. Here are some of the bits I loved: let the other side go first genuine curiosity is a hack for getting out of ego talk to yourself in a late night DJ voice [out loud] and […]. The post Get what you want appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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[QUICK WIN] Power Networking for Consultants

Consulting Matters

I am confident that you get how important networking is to your marketing system. You know that its an essential way for you to regularly meet and impress your future clients. The question is: Are you making the most of these events? Are you making the most of the events that you invest time and money to attend? And as importantly - are you taking advantage of the networking events that you may not even realize you're attending every week?

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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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How To Sell What People Need But Don't Want

Henry DeVries

If you deliver a service that people don’t want to talk about, you have to discuss the benefits they do want to talk about.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

Shana Novak/Getty Images. This week brought some sobering news on the near future of our planet and species. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C (3.8°F) — a l

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Leading a Company That Wants to Change Lives through Sports

Strategy+Business

Think high-profile consumer goods, and sports apparel comes quickly to mind. For the last few years, the world's fastest-growing major sports apparel enterprise has been Adidas. The CEO overseeing Adidas's flourishing is Kasper Rørsted, a man who spent the first half of his career in the tech industry. In office just two years, he is positioning Adidas as a globally influential enterprise.

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What to Do When You’re Covering for Colleagues — and Can’t Keep Up

Harvard Business

The summer vacation season may be behind us, but the holidays are right around the corner. And soon enough your colleagues may be asking you to cover for them while they’re away. All of a sudden, you’re juggling not only your normal work but also someone else’s. That’s potentially more email, more tasks, more meetings, and more searching for answers to questions about items outside of your normal day-to-day.

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Considering the vacancy tax

Seth Godin Blog

Landlords are notorious for having a bias toward raising the rent. They’re in it for the long haul, they’ve seen downturns before, and while they’re quick to raise rents in good times, they are loathe to lower rents, even if it means sitting with an empty storefront for months at a time. While this math might be compelling for some landlords, it’s terrible for the cities those buildings are located in.

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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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When to Turn Down a Lucrative Opportunity

Harvard Business

Dougal Waters/Getty Images. Whether in corporate life or entrepreneurship, the recipe for success is clear: Win and execute lucrative projects. The reasons are obvious: Your business wouldn’t exist without money to run it, and the more, the better. But what’s less obvious is that at a certain point, not turning down lucrative engagements may actually thwart your future success.

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Is Your Plan for Talent Working?

LSA Global

Is Your Talent Ready? Is your plan for talent ready for what your business will face tomorrow? As a leader, it is sometimes challenging enough to get the day-to-day work done in a way that makes sense. But it is your job to ensure that your team will also be ready to face the challenges of tomorrow. Your plan for talent must support the future success of your organization.

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The Power of Curiosity

Harvard Business

Francesca Gino, a professor at Harvard Business School, shares a compelling business case for curiosity. Her research shows allowing employees to exercise their curiosity can lead to fewer conflicts and better outcomes. However, even managers who value inquisitive thinking often discourage curiosity in the workplace because they fear it’s inefficient and unproductive.

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How To Form Crisis Ready Legal Alliances and Practice Compassionate Compliance

Melissa Agnes

Gaining legal’s support and buy-in for your crisis readiness can sometimes be a challenge, but when achieved, can become one of your most powerful allies. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , and YouTube. Jackie Ford, partner at the law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease , joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss proactive legal strategies in your crisis readiness and the practice of compassionate compliance.

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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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We Deserve Better Than “Attagirl”

Harvard Business

From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS. Download the discussion guide for this episode. Join our online community. Download this podcast. Hearing your manager say you’re doing a great job is, of course, lovely. But without examples of your greatness in action, or suggestions for how to be even better, you don’t have the information you need to keep improving.

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A New Hospitalist Model for Managing High-Cost, High-Need Patients

Harvard Business

A partnership between the Boston Medical Center and Commonwealth Care Alliance, a community-based health care organization, provides a promising new hospitalist model for inpatient treatment of complex care patients — patients with extensive, persistently expensive medical needs. Complex care patients typically have complicated medical histories, functional limitations or disabilities, numerous medications prescribed by multiple outpatient providers, and social drivers of illness.

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

If you were entering the job market in the early 90s, most job descriptions included “Macintosh experience” or “excellent PC skills” in their preferred qualifications. This quickly became a requirement for even the most non-technical jobs, forcing people across every industry and age group to adapt with the changing times, or risk getting left behind.

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Research: Perspective-Taking Doesn’t Help You Understand What Others Want

Harvard Business

Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, realized that being a good leader required being a good mind reader. “I see my task as serving the majority of people,” he said in an interview to Forbes. “The question is, how do you find out what they want?” For many business leaders who want to understand the minds of their employees, customers, or competitors, the answer seems obvious: Do some perspective-taking.

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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.