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5 Ways to Lavish Consulting Clients With Attention, Without Adding Work or Time

David A Fields

Imagine your consulting clients are donuts (this is helpful in many, many ways) and the attention you give them is glaze. Obviously, the more attention you slather on your clients, the better. Consulting clients love to be attended to. Substantial, personal, genuine attention creates happy, loyal clients.

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Staffing and Certified Management Consultant Wayne Outlaw Receives Service Award

IMC USA

Fort Lauderdale, Florida — October 12, 2018. The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) is pleased to announce that Wayne Outlaw CMC® is a recipient of its prestigious Distinguished Service award for continued service and demonstration of strong, long-term support of IMC USA. Mr. Outlaw is the President of Outlaw Group, Inc., in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina. “ Wayne has faithfully served on the National Certification committee for 12 years and served as Committee Chair

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The Best Way To Attract Wealthy Clients Is Education

Henry DeVries

Would you be willing to demand that wealthy prospects pay to take a class held at a university with a 200-page textbook before you would be willing to take them on as a client?

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John Kerry on Leadership, Compromise, and Change

Harvard Business

John Kerry, former U.S. Secretary of State, shares management and leadership lessons from his long career in public service. He discusses how to win people over to your side, bounce back from defeats, and never give up on your long-term goals. He also calls on private sector CEOs to do more to solve social and political problems. Kerry’s new memoir is Every Day Is Extra.

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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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When Hiring a Crisis Management Advisor, Become An Informed Buyer To Mitigate Unnecessary Risk

Melissa Agnes

Don’t let the lack of certification in this profession put your organization at risk. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , and YouTube. Charlie Maclean-Bristol, one of the Founders and Directors of PlanB Consulting, joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss how organizations can get around the lack of certification in the profession of crisis management, to make sure they’re partnering with the right professionals for their company’s crisis r

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Learning without doing

Seth Godin Blog

It’s certainly possible. But it’s unlikely you could learn to ride a bike by watching a lot of videos about it. Or teach a toddler to walk. In fact, it’s unlikely that you could learn to sell, to design useful objects or to solve interesting problems either. You can try to learn without doing. But why? [Also, while we’re on the topic… Today’s the last day to sign up for the Podcasting Fellowship.

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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business

HBR Staff. With over 1.3 billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. Of course, it’s also a risky place to do business. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that

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Four Key Steps to Develop Learning Agility

MBO Partners

Apply the four key components of learning agility to continually grow and improve your business.

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9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong

Harvard Business

Topic Images Inc./Getty Images. Many times, especially in business settings, people use words that they think they know — but don’t. Although they do this in an effort to sound intelligent and sophisticated, it backfires badly, because even one small slip-up can cause an audience to focus on only that, not the speaker’s ideas. Sure, saying the wrong word (usually) isn’t a game-changer.

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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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Should You Give Your Star Employees Star Treatment?

Harvard Business

Francesco Sassetti/Getty Images. How vital are your vital few? In any team or organization, a small number of individuals will account for a substantial amount of collective output. These “stars” are able to systematically outperform the majority of their peers and confirm the well-established Pareto effect whereby 80% of collective output can be attributed to 20% of the people in a group, or even fewer.

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How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE’S CONNECTME AND SALESFORCE

Harvard Business

Today’s employees are digital consumers who expect to connect at work with the same ease with which they connect at home. Deloitte’s ConnectMe enables a digital workplace by using insights to connect the workforce to what they need, where and when they need it. ConnectMe leverages the world’s leading CRM cloud solution, Salesforce, to help organizations navigate the changing workplace and deliver an exceptional employee experience.

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Using the Power of Supply Chains to End Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business

Image Source/Getty Images. In the year since allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein shocked the public, the #MeToo movement has exposed widespread workplace sexual harassment—not just in the entertainment world, but across industries. Last week, we at New America’s Better Life Lab published what we believe is a novel, forward-thinking report on the reality that harassment is “severe, pervasive, and widespread” across low and high income

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Podcast: After Hours

Harvard Business

HBR Presents. After Hours. Harvard professors discuss news at the crossroads of business and culture. Listen and subscribe. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts. RSS. Also on: Stitcher. Overcast. Pocket Casts. RadioPublic. Latest Episodes. Season 2 – Episode 4. Can Netflix Keep Winning? And Why People Are Fleeing Latin America. Youngme, Mihir, and Felix debate whether Netflix’s success is sustainable, before trying to wrap their heads around the unthinkably high murder rate in Latin Ameri

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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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How to Actually Put Your Data Analysis to Good Use

Harvard Business

MirageC/Getty Images. Data and analytics professionals seem to be at the center of the next big race for talent. In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. Now there’s a significant shortage. By 2020, IBM expects broader demand for data and analytics talent to reach 2.7 million positions in the U.S. alone. The competition for talent will be especially intense for companies for whom advanced analytics forms a core part of their proposition — think e-commerce gian