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The 10 Best Ways for Your Consulting Firm to Add Value

David A Fields

Half the spinning cycle of consulting is creating value for your clients. (The other half is winning engagements.) If your consulting firm can add more value, you can win more projects from more clients at higher fees. So, let’s cover the ten best ways to add value to a consulting project. In consulting, as in … Continued. The post The 10 Best Ways for Your Consulting Firm to Add Value appeared first on David A.

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Starting A Consulting Business With No Experience

Consulting Success

Starting a consulting business with no experience is easy. Today, anybody can start their own consulting business. If you have a computer, a phone, and a place to do your work, you have everything you need to start a consulting business. What’s not easy is building and sustaining a profitable consulting business with no experience. If you think you must “feel like a consultant” before you can start your own consulting business, you’re mistaken.

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Good Leaders Don't Disappear

Strategy+Business

By recognizing the counterproductive thoughts and behaviors that cause you to silence yourself, you can stay visible to your team and give your people more reasons to follow you.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business

Nattapol Poonpiriya/Getty Images. Every day there are news stories about the so-called gig economy where workers contribute part or full-time labor — not as employees with benefits, but as independent contractors. Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance s

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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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Consulting Magazine: An Inside Advantage for Consulting Firms

Management and IT Consulting

Savvy firms leaders are discovering that the best way to impact their bottom line is through their own back office.

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The problem with people is that they outnumber you

Seth Godin Blog

It doesn’t make any sense to spend your life proving them wrong, it’s a losing battle. Far more effective is the endless work of building connection, forming alliances and finding the very best you can in those you engage with. You can’t possibly know what it’s like to be someone else, but it’s also true that no one knows what it’s like to be you.

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Stop Initiative Overload

Harvard Business

Rose Hollister and Michael Watkins, consultants at Genesis Advisers, argue that many companies today are taking on too many initiatives. Each manager might have their own pet projects they want to focus on, but that trickles down to lower level workers dealing with more projects at a time that they can handle, or do well. This episode also offers practical tips for senior-level leaders to truly prioritize the best initiatives at their company — or risk losing some of their top talent.

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Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News: October, 2018

MBO Partners

A monthly summary of independent contractor misclassification and compliance news. This is the October, 2018 edition.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business

Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images. Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. But clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. Members of the hospital’s design thinking team were inspired by something they saw when they boarded a KLM Airline flight: During a pre-flight huddle of the

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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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Crisis Ready Q&A: How Does Crisis Readiness Translate From Government To Big Business To Solopreneurs?

Melissa Agnes

Each month, I answer your crisis ready questions. This month’s question comes from Bridget… and, in fact, Bridget had a handful of really great questions that I got to provide responses to. Here’s a sampling of what these questions were: “Is crisis management different from industry to industry?” “What is the best way to manage controversial issues that spark heated emotion within a subset group of stakeholders?

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Chinese Activists Are Using Blockchain to Document #MeToo Stories

Harvard Business

carduus/Getty Images. One of our main jobs when teaching and advising students who are thinking of founding blockchain companies is to get them to question whether or not their idea actually requires it. Data integrity is the main benefit conferred by blockchain technology, and a few questions can help determine whether that’s a particular problem for a given business or use case: If the data that my business collects is corrupted, how much do people suffer?

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Leadership Coaching Creates Future Ready Leaders

Cheryl Cran

What is the single most important element for companies to ready for the future? Answer: Leadership coaching. Leadership Coaching Helps With These Challenges: Ability to innovate Increasing speed of technology changes Attracting and retaining talent Breaking down silos Disengaged employees Each of the above challenges can be solved by effective coaching to help leaders be […].

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4 Ways to Pressure-Test Strategic Decisions, Inspired by the U.S. Military

Harvard Business

cnsphotography/Getty Images. Every leader wants to avoid major strategic mistakes, but, in a complex world, it’s hard to anticipate all the forces that might impact your goal. It’s vital to find weaknesses in your strategies before you implement them — and developing a rigorous process to do so. The ability to poke holes in one’s own strategies is something the U.S. military has practiced and refined over centuries.

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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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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

Westend61/Getty Images. Arthur Nielsen, market research pioneer and founder of the Nielsen Corporation, once said , “The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see.

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Power Sales Performance by Harnessing Analytics - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM TABLEAU

Harvard Business

By Brian Selby, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations, Tableau Software. How often is your sales team making important decisions based on gut feel? Are you sure that deal will close this quarter and was it optimally priced? Are your sales resources allocated properly to drive growth? In my experience, when sales organizations make major decisions and plans based on gut feelings, there are costly consequences.

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