Tue.Dec 15, 2020

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The ONLY Best Way to Practice Consulting

David A Fields

You and your consulting firm are pretty spiffy. But does your firm employ the one, best consulting approach? Let’s find out. You savor the evidence that your consulting firm produces excellent work. Glowing testimonials and multiple, word-of-mouth referrals provide ample evidence that your consulting firm consistently pleases your clients. Yet, other consulting firms proceed quite … Continued.

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The Safe Space #4 – living with ambiguity

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

You need to be the change that creates the mental shift within the organization and engenders organizational change. As the COVID-19 crisis enveloped the globe, Eric J. McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end.

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Help! I need to have a difficult conversation and I’m worried about a bad reaction.

The Management Centre

As we look back at 2020, we have had to handle some tough situations over the last year. A pandemic will do that to you. No doubt lots of managers in charities and not-for-profit organisations have had to have some tricky conversations in recent months, and for some managers there are more to come. Getting prepared is vital. But no matter how well you prepare for challenging conversations, the other person involved is bound to react in some way.

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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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How To Make Ice Cubes Out Of Icebergs

Kai Davis

When it comes to taking relaxation time away from marketing and growing your business, you’ve got two competing internal forces at play: If that’s you, I get it. I am a human who is looking at the coming weeks and thinks, “Hey, you know what’ll be relaxing? Writing out a plan to build that that Burning Man info site in 2021!!1”. In my lifetime of stuffing personal projects into my relaxing time, I’ve learned a few things: It’s okay.

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LIVE: The 3 Things You Need to Make Your Strategic Plan a Success in 2021

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Is your team preparing for its annual strategic planning session? Or maybe you've just created the plan, and it's time to implement? If so, we've got an event for you.

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How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too

Harvard Business

The latest wave of Covid-19 is pushing us to new depths of personal resilience.

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The problem with a mic drop

Seth Godin Blog

It’s fun to say the perfect thing at the perfect time. Mic drop. The problem is that then you have to bend over and pick up the microphone. Conversations take more effort but tend to be worth it.

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6 Ways to Convince Someone to Collaborate with You

Harvard Business

You have more to offer than you might realize.

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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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New Workshop: Avoiding the Conclusion Trap (and Other Pitfalls)

Markovitz Consulting

Need a break from the tedious bickering over the presidential election? Can’t stand the thought of talking heads bloviating about the cataclysmic importance of the upcoming Georgia senatorial election? If so, join me in January for a workshop on better problem solving. I’m joining forces with the fantastic folks at the Iowa Lean Consortium for a 4-part, 4-week workshop based on my new book, The Conclusion Trap.

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Why Burnout Happens — and How Bosses Can Help

Harvard Business

Now more than ever, managers need to recognize when employees are suffering and do something about it.

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Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

Rod Burkert

If you missed my last post: Ever read the book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten ? Well, all I really need to know about building my BVFLS practice I learned from Santa Claus. Set yourself up for 2021 with the new 12 days of Christmas – 12 lessons every practitioner can learn from the man in red. On to this week: Yep, the title of this post is a euphemism for an embarrassing and disappointing experience … mine.