Tue.Mar 20, 2018

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4 Mind Shifts that Outwit Your Toughest Competition for Consulting Projects

David A Fields

Without a doubt, the biggest hurdle most consulting firms face when they’re trying to win a project is inertia. And also without a doubt, when you do overcome that inertia, your stiffest competition comes from internal staff. Why? Because our consulting prospects are like us: do-it-yourselfers. Pay a plumber to fix that leak?

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Just for Fun… some inspirational speeches

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Just because you can, why not spend 2 minutes and see 40 inspirational speeches. It will make you feel good, I promise! The post Just for Fun… some inspirational speeches appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Can More Flexible Workforces Solve Society's Problems?

Strategy+Business

Yasuyuki Nambu, founder and CEO of Pasona Group, has spent his life advocating the idea that a more independent and flexible workforce benefits businesses and the economy. His views on fair pay and benefits for all workers, including women and older employees, represent the leading edge of Japanese thinking about the human capital practices of the future.

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How to adapt your CV to consulting experience

freshminds

‘How do I get into consulting?’ is a question we often hear at Freshminds. With a range of varied backgrounds and experience, it’s hard to know how to make your CV fit into the tick boxes consulting companies want checked off. This can seem like a difficult dilemma to face, and from the outside looking in the consulting world can seem murky and littered with its own specific jargon and terminology.

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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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Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking

Harvard Business

Oliver Hibert/Getty Images. “Put your phone away” has become a commonplace phrase that is just as often dismissed. Despite wanting to be in the moment, we often do everything within our power to the contrary. We take out our phones to take pictures in the middle of festive family meals, and send text messages or update our social media profiles in the middle of a date or while watching a movie.

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How To Find A Sponsor For Your Marketing

Henry DeVries

If you have built an audience, a customer base, a loyal following – no matter the size – who value you, who love you, who appreciate your opinion, your insights, and they look to you for guidance, then you can find a sponsor.

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Ask Not What Your City Can Do for New Jobs

Strategy+Business

Towns in the U.S. are scrambling to attract Amazon's second headquarters, but there are more effective ways to put people to work. Fill the vacant jobs in your area.

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How to motivate and keep good employees in the company?

Consulthon

Hi All! I would like to ask how would you motivate employees to develop and grow in a very flat organizational structure? If there is only a certain level up to which you can grow what would you do.

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The Value of Paid Time Off

Billable Percentage

Having been in the workforce for 9 years now, I’ve realized my idea of a good compensation package has shifted. When I graduated, it was pretty rough. As such, when I was able to get a job in 2009, my number one priority was salary. Insurance benefits, 401k matches, and paid time off were really not a priority to me. I received those benefits, but they didn’t exactly get me up in the morning.

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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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What is a good intra-day Liquidity Management tool?

Consulthon

Hello Consulthon members, Does anyone have experience working with/ implementing an intra-day liquidity tool or an interactive solution for monitoring intra-day transactions? The tool/ solution sho.

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Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help

Harvard Business

HBR Staff. Plenty of media coverage — and companies’ attention — is devoted to employees at the beginning and end of their careers, at least in my experience. Entry-level employees learning the ropes garner more than their share of managers’ time, and those transitioning toward retirement pull executives’ focus by necessity as they work to develop succession plans.

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The beat goes on

Seth Godin Blog

That's what makes it the beat. There are other things that stop. That start. That go faster or slower.  But don't worry about the beat. We can't change the beat. The beat continues. When we're watching it, it continues, and when we're distracted, it continues. Beat by beat, day by day, it continues. Awareness of our forward motion, of the tick and tock as we move from yesterday to tomorrow. it gives us perspective and patience if we let it.

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5 Early Warning Signs You May Lose Your Client

LSA Global

Warning Signs You May Lose Your Client. Losing a major client can send you, your forecast, your quota and your sales team into a tailspin. You know you’ll have to replace that revenue somehow but you feel paralyzed into inaction by the shock of it all. Did you miss some clear warning signs you may lose your client? Should You Have Seen this Coming?

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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 We Made Our Sales Training More Effective by Making It Harder

Harvard Business

PM Images/Getty Images. Not long ago, my company was the king of ineffective sales training. We’d hire and onboard reps and then train them in a hurried few weeks dedicated to shadowing sales calls, reading call scripts, and learning how to handle objections. As the company grew, however, I found that individual sales approaches were wildly different.

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3 Client Retention Strategies

MBO Partners

Follow these three tips to keep your project and client pipeline full.

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How Augmented Reality Will Make Surgery Safer

Harvard Business

mathisworks/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Some of the biggest medical advances of the last few decades have been in diagnostic imaging—ultrasonogaphy, mammography, computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and so on. The same forces that have propelled technology developments elsewhere—tiny cameras, smaller and faster processors, and real-time data streaming—have revolutionized how doctors use imaging in performing procedures.