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Essential Consulting Website Pages Part 2: Showcasing Your Services

Tsavo Neal

Your service pages can be frustrating to create as a consultant. If you do it right, you’ll make it easy for your prospects to select your perfect service for their business. This will take them one step closer to contacting you. But do it wrong, and your prospects will feel overwhelmed, confused, and click on the “back” button. You know exactly what you do during your engagements with your clients.

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How Actionable Improves the World of (My) Work

Actionable

I don’t work for Actionable in an effort to fulfill a job description and get paid. I work for Actionable in order to be a part of something so much bigger. The post How Actionable Improves the World of (My) Work appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Research Shows That Organizations Benefit When Employees Take Sabbaticals

Harvard Business

It’s the time of year when many employees are cashing in their vacation allotment, and it can sometimes seem like no one is in the office. But rather than bemoan how hard it is to get stuff done during vacation season, recent research and corporate experiments suggest that there might not be enough employees taking time off — and even if they are taking time off, they should be taking more of it.

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How Actionable Improves the World of (My) Work

Actionable

I don’t work for Actionable in an effort to fulfill a job description and get paid. I work for Actionable in order to be a part of something so much bigger. The post How Actionable Improves the World of (My) Work appeared first on Actionable.co.

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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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Seeing and believing

Seth Godin Blog

It turns out that the more you watch TV, the more you believe that the world is dangerous. It turns out TV watchers believe that an astonishing 5% (!) of the population works in law enforcement. And it turns out that the more you watch TV the less optimistic you become. Cultivation theory  helps us understand the enormous power that TV immersion has.

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When to Listen to a Dire Warning

Harvard Business

Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism adviser to U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has made a career of investigating disaster warnings. The way he sees it, catastrophes can happen at any time, so why should decision makers ignore a Cassandra? Now a cybersecurity firm CEO, Clarke is an expert at figuring out who is a conspiracy theorist and who is a credible source.

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Stock Market Correction Hasn’t Begun to Begin! It Will (And North Korea Has Nothing to Do With It)

MishTalk

With the threat of nuclear war with North Korea looming, inquiring minds may be wondering what that threat is currently worth. (more…).

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Strategic Clarity Requires Strategic Focus

LSA Global

Strategic focus can make or break a company when the stakes are high. Settle or stretch…that may be the dilemma you face as you begin the critical strategic planning process. And your business results and the buy-in of your people will most likely depend upon the choice you make. Is your business strategy planning process similar to the way most organizations run theirs?

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Producer Prices Unexpectedly Decline

MishTalk

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for final goods unexpectedly declined in July. The PPI fell 0.1% as did the core PPI which excludes food and energy. THe Econoday consensus expected a 0.1% gain. (more…).

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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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Firing James Damore Could Be a Setback for Google’s Diversity Goals

Harvard Business

One of the mistakes CEOs often make with their diversity efforts is assuming everyone shares their goals. In my experience — consulting on gender with hundreds of companies — this is rarely the case. Leadership teams are usually not aligned on gender issues and objectives. And if they’re not, you can bet the rest of the organization isn’t either.

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Oh that “Elusive” Inflation!

MishTalk

New York Fed President, William Dudley, says 2% inflation target will remain elusive even if price pressures pick up. Elusive means “6-10 months” (more…).

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What We Learned About Bureaucracy from 7,000 HBR Readers

Harvard Business

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Since then, we’ve received over 7,000 responses from a diverse group of participants. Here are our initial takeaways: The blight of bureaucracy seems inescapable. For each completed survey, we calculated an overall BMI score by aggregating responses across seven categories of bureaucratic drag: bloat, friction, ins

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How to Onboard a New Client

MBO Partners

The best way to onboard a new client and ensure a productive start to your consulting project.

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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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Good Leaders Are Good Learners

Harvard Business

Dave Wheeler for HBR. Although organizations spend more than $24 billion annually on leadership development, many leaders who have attended leadership programs struggle to implement what they’ve learned. It’s not because the programs are bad but because leadership is best learned from experience. Still, simply being an experienced leader doesn’t elevate a person’s skills.

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Great, but did anyone learn anything?

Ed Kless

I just received a very nice email from the organizers of a professional conference at which I spoke earlier this year. Here is an excerpt: Your combined speaker ratings from the onsite and virtual attendee evaluations may be found below. Please note that our rating scale is: 5 = Exceptional, 4 = Better Than Expectations, 3 = Met Expectations, 2 = Below Expectations, 1 = Unsatisfactory.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business

Diana Ong. I met Tanya years ago, at a global corporation where she led a business unit and enjoyed a reputation as a formidable mentor. “The thing I always keep in mind,” she told me with obvious pride, explaining her approach to management as we walked through a bustling open office, “is that these people are the best talent in the business.

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How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering

Harvard Business

Just how common are the views on gender espoused in the memo that former Google engineer James Damore was recently fired for distributing on an internal company message board? The flap has women and men in tech — and elsewhere — wondering what their colleagues really think about diversity. Research we’ve conducted shows that while most people don’t share Damore’s views, male engineers are more likely to.

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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.