David A Fields
MARCH 12, 2019
It’s easy to imagine your consulting firm’s worst nemesis is a competitive consulting firm, a procurement department, your prospects’ internal staff, or gingivitis. However, the biggest threat to your consulting firm’s growth is much closer to home and much more personal. (Well, not closer and more personal than gingivitis.) There’s a problem you confront over … Continued.
Markovitz Consulting
MARCH 12, 2019
A prospect told me recently that he wanted to work with me to bring lean/continuous improvement to his company, but first he needed to “integrate it into his Training and Development” plans. I told him that he was making a mistake, and that he was likely to fail. If you frame lean/CI as a training and development activity, you won’t get the of buy-in and commitment from staff that you need.
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Clarity Consultants
MARCH 12, 2019
When companies hire, they often focus on a candidate’s technical prowess. Similarly, when it comes to learning and development, hard skills are typically a priority. The post Why Are Soft Skills So Essential for Your Job and Team? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.
Johanna Rothman
MARCH 12, 2019
Too-typical “telephone” game. Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. If you've ever had a chance to sit with a customer, you've learned how effectively (and fast!) the team and the customer learn from each other. And, too few teams have any access to any customers. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager.
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Consulthon
MARCH 12, 2019
Hi everyone! I am the CEO of a travel startup and we are about to welcome our second trainee into the team. I am wondering about the best approach I can take when managing them. I do not approve of.
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Kai Davis
MARCH 12, 2019
Monetarysearch. A Marketing Professor told my class in college about how when he was starting up his marketing agency he had to pick between two cities: He could set up shop in his hometown in Illinois where there would be no competition. He could set up shop in San Diego where there were 87 other marketing agencies. No brainer, right? Pick “Hometown, Illinois” Set up shop.
The Source
MARCH 12, 2019
Stepping into L.E.K.’s offices, situated in the heart of Victoria, London, there’s a palpable warmth to all the people we meet on our journey to the client suite. Carol Wingard— a woman who wears many hats in her roles as Managing Director of L.E.K., the Head of the firm’s industrials sector in the Americas, and Co-Head of its global industrials sector—is no exception.
Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2019
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a psychologist and chief talent scientist at ManpowerGroup, says we’re not picking leaders in the right way. While we should be promoting people based on their competence and potential, it’s often the incompetent, overconfident candidates — most of them men — who get ahead. Studies show that, by many measures, women are actually better equipped to become strong, successful managers.
Seth Godin Blog
MARCH 12, 2019
It’s not that difficult to write a headline that people click on. But a headline that people click on is rarely one that earns trust, sustained attention or action. Which means that if you’re looking for more than a click, you’ll need to walk away from the bait and switch that’s now so common. Just because you can trick people and swindle a click doesn’t mean you should.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2019
A survey found they save more and stress about money less than pessimists.
LSA Global
MARCH 12, 2019
How to Climb the Corporate Ladder as a New Manager. If you are like most new managers, you welcome your management position as the first of many rungs on the corporate ladder. Your hope is to prove your abilities in this role so that you are promoted to the next more responsible position and so on up the leadership ladder. What are the smart ways for new managers to climb the corporate ladder of success?
Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2019
Executives need to communicate more effectively with technical experts.
Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2019
Bring mindfulness into the classroom experience.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2019
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