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Consulting Workshop: Master The Consulting Proposal

Consulting Success

years"> Consulting Workshop: Master The Consulting Proposal Learn how to win high-value consulting business with easy-to-write proposals you can create in 1 hour or less. Register Now Starts August 31, 2021 at 11am Pacific Only 20 spots available. Register today A Fast, Stress-Free Process Stop wasting your time, energy, and effort on proposals that clients.

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Four Strategies for Managing Up

Makarios Consulting

One of the most difficult and painful positions you can find yourself in as an experienced and capable leader is needing to “manage up” because your boss does not have your back. It is an unenviable position – but that does not mean it is an impossible situation. Let’s consider an all-too-common scenario: you lead a team and report in to a vice president (VP).

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How To Get Really Good at Facilitating Change

Nash Consulting

“One of the greatest pains of human nature is the pain of a new idea.Naturally, therefore, [people] hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original [person] who brings it.” - Walter Bagehot , 1893 Change. We all resist it on some level, whether the change in question is good for us or not. We can’t help it – it’s who we are as human beings.

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Four Strategies for Managing Up

Makarios Consulting

One of the most difficult and painful positions you can find yourself in as an experienced and capable leader is needing to “manage up” because your boss does not have your back. It is an unenviable position – but that does not mean it is an impossible situation. Let’s consider an all-too-common scenario: you lead a team and report in to a vice president (VP).

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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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ConsultX Consulting Fee Structure

ConsultX

This blog outlines the details behind ConsultX’s recommended fee structure after 16+ years of development. The main objective is to create a win-win relationship and a win-win fee structure for both the consultant and the client. Would you prefer to listen to a podcast? Episode 24 of Everything Business Consulting covers our Consulting Fee Structure.

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Clarity Consultants Success Stories: Clarity Creates eLearning Modules for Fortune 50 Health Benefits Company

Clarity Consultants

The Challenge. CONVERTING TRAINING FROM OUTDATED FORMATS TO CORPORATE ELEARNING MODULES. Our client is a leading health benefits organization that, through its affiliated companies, serves more than 79 million people, including 41 million within its family of health plans. A company that prides itself in having one of the industry’s best training programs, our client aimed to convert sales training courses to eLearning modules that would help its salesforce kick-off 2020 with a bang.

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How Improving Your Managers' Skills is the Key to Business Growth w/Cameron Herold Ep#110

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Cameron Herold in the Canadian born founder of COO Alliance. He was instrumental in building 1-800-GOT-JUNK? into a $100 million business, and also helped build several other companies including North America's largest collision repair company, the largest residential house painting company in the world, and a currency company he sold for $64 million.

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Clarity Consultants Success Stories: Clarity Creates eLearning Modules for Fortune 50 Health Benefits Company

Clarity Consultants

Clarity helps a health benefits company create eLearning modules that will provide their salesforce with a solid foundation on the company’s sales tactics. The post Clarity Consultants Success Stories: Clarity Creates eLearning Modules for Fortune 50 Health Benefits Company appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Are you in jeopardy of losing your job?

Peter Stark

We have spent the last 25 years identifying the traits that make leaders successful. This has led us to strongly believe that there is a significant difference between leaders and managers. Managers always have a title and a formal position on the organizational chart. Leaders may or may not have a title, but they always have a relationship with people who make a conscious decision to follow them.

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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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To Call or Not To Call

Martinka Consulting

I looked at the title of a recent article by Joanna Stern in the Wall Street Journal and felt it was either aimed directly at me or I could have written it. The title is, “ To Fight Video Call Fatigue, Pick Up the Phone.” . She covers the basics of why video calls lead to fatigue and those basics include looking at oneself, which is not natural, there’s a lot of sitting (I say get a standup desk), there’s a lot of close-up eye contact, and, let’s face it, looking at a screen is tiring on the eye

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A return to cottage work

Seth Godin Blog

Businesses care about productivity. At the core of their ability to create a profit is the simple formula of work produced per dollar spent. Frederick Taylor used a stopwatch to revolutionize the production of cars and just about everything else. By measuring the output of each person on the line, he was able to dramatically increase how much a company like Ford could produce for every hour of labor it used.

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Build a Better Dashboard for Your Agile Project

Harvard Business

Project managers often struggle to get the data they need — or to find it in a sea of data they don’t.

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Leadership Tip #10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team

Johanna Rothman

Many managers feel the need to get more and more done. They feel pressure from customers and salespeople for more features or products. Or the managers might feel the need for more revenue. So they start many projects. When teams have too many projects, teams take longer to finish. This means all that pressure continues to increase. Some managers deal with this problem by slicing and dicing feature sets into smaller chunks of work.

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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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The Guardian’s Julia Carrie Wong: Understanding Critical Race Theory, Part 1

Harvard Business

A reporter with The Guardian breaks down the controversy around critical race theory in the U.S.

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Closing the Job Mobility Gap Between Black and White Americans

Harvard Business

Leaders need to fix their pipelines and build new pathways into higher-paying careers.

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Tech Misconfigurations vs. Vulnerabilities: How Different Are They? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM TREND MICRO

Harvard Business

SPONSOR CONTENT FROM TREND MICRO.

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End Imposter Syndrome in Your Workplace

Harvard Business

Seven strategies for leaders.

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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.