February, 2023

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Leadership Trust Killers: 4 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

Organizational Talent Consulting

I inherently trust most people. I also can quickly distrust people. For the same reasons as everyone else, to avoid something bad. Deciding whether to trust or not is always important. Putting faith in the wrong someone or something can lead to big life and career mistakes.

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5 Unexpected Books Every Consultant Should Read

David A Fields

You see a lot of book lists floating around the interwebs. Many contain great recommendations of useful books for consulting firm leaders. However, the books on the list are largely not unexpected or trajectory shifting. (I

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Behavioral Economics For Consultants: Use Psychology To Grow Your Business With Melina Palmer: Podcast #277

Consulting Success

In the consulting space, your world revolves around human interaction. So when growing your business, we must also look at human behavior, what motivates them, and how we can leverage that.

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High Performing Teams Vs High Functioning Teams: What's the difference?

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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Applied Behavioral Economics Rule of Thumb #7: Attention is Limited, So Maximize the Behavioral Impact Ratio

Steve Shu Consulting

My level of awareness was heightened this week by correspondence with the brilliant Mac Hodell (former Principal at BCG). We were exchanging ideas about definitive references for management consultants related to the visual aspect of presentations. To cut a long story short, he brought up the powerful idea of maximizing the Insight:Ink ratio on slides. How might this work? One could add ink to a presentation slide while increasing insight dramatically.

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Embracing Your Expertise: The Importance of Believing in Yourself with Ann Carden

Consulting Matters

Do you have the mindset and strategies you need to create a thriving consulting or coaching business so you can reach your full potential in your career and life? Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ann Carden, a highly successful consultant and fellow mentor to other consultants.

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3 Mindsets + 2 Plans to Relieve Your Consulting Firm’s Growth Obstruction

David A Fields

Breaking News: The challenge blocking your firm from the next stage of growth is… You. Growing your consulting practice requires you to surrender more and more responsibilities.

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Tech To Consulting: Getting Started in Consulting For Tech Employees

Consulting Success

Are you thinking about taking the tech skills you’ve learned as a full-time employee and going out on your own as a consultant? Maybe you were caught in the recent wave of tech industry layoffs and aren’t so sure you want to start over as a new employee at another company. Or maybe you saw.

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Staying Up to Date on Instructional Design Technology

Clarity Consultants

Staying up to date on instructional design technology is essential for creating practical coursework that takes advantage of cutting-edge tech.

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The Surprising Effects of Business Vs. Leisure Travel

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

When you read the title for this article, you may have heard the 1981 song from The Clash in your head. It’s a great song. Like that song, this article is about deciding to stay or leave a relationship.

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Recognize the Problems That Prevent Effective Meetings (Collocated, Remote, Hybrid)

Johanna Rothman

Meetings. We all have them. Most of us hate them. When I ask why, here are some of the responses I hear: They take too much time away from our “real work.” ” It's too hard to find time to meet. Our calendars are too full. We can't find a place to meet.

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The Art of Figuring Things Out with Michelle Massman

Consulting Matters

I’m super excited to have my treasured client and colleague Michelle Massman on the show. During our conversation, we explore the power of taking action and openness to figure things out and its impact on long-term success as an entrepreneur.

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The CORRECT Response to “How is Your Firm Better?”

David A Fields

Jeff Boyardi, CSO (Chief Sauce Officer) at a Stuphinacan Co. contacts your consulting firm to explore a potential project. You engage in a friendly discovery conversation (a.k.a. Context Discussion) and agree to a follow-up date to discuss next steps. Alas, Jeff isn’t alone at the next call.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

More than two years in, COVID-19 is far from over. Businesses are tasked with beating pre-COVID numbers, making marketing crucial. This is your time to create brand awareness, bring in the best leads, and play a vital role in new and existing profit.

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Consulting Leadership: How To Lead Your Firm & Clients

Consulting Success

As the owner of a small firm, what consulting leadership style will help you build a successful business? In this article, you’ll learn effective forms of leadership to help you start, grow, and scale a consulting firm in 2023.

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Successful L&D Project Managers Have These Skills

Clarity Consultants

Managing learning and development (L&D) projects are often challenging. However, having a skilled project manager makes the process more straightforward. Ideally, you want to ensure that your L&D project manager has specific capabilities as they increase their odds of success.

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Get the Right People in the Right Seats Right Now

Makarios Consulting

What would happen if a significant number of the people in your organization were not performing and executing well in their roles? Can you imagine the employee frustration? The operational inefficiency? The customer complaints? The profit loss? You may not have to imagine it.

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Writing Secret 8: Publish on Your Site First

Johanna Rothman

If you, as I, write frequently, you might wonder where is the “best” place to publish your writing. You might think social media, especially Medium or LinkedIn, is the “best” in terms of eyeballs. That's people to the rest of us.)

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

Streaming real-time intent is a homerun for marketing and sales’ account-based marketing (ABM) strategies. With real-time buyer insights, you can be first-in-line to provide solutions and lead better, hyper-personalized conversations.

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Quick Guide to a Career in Product Design

Tom Spencer

Product design is more creative than engineering, more practical than art, and more hands-on than graphic design Product design is a field that involves the creation and development of new products or product improvements.

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Rework is Bad. Wait, It’s GOOD for Your Consulting Firm?! Here’s Why

David A Fields

Remember your first boss, Justin Thyme? Your first boss may have worked under an assumed name.) Justin taught you, “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you find time to do it again?! Rework is bad.” ” Justin was right. Justin was also wrong.

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The Principles Of The Consulting Craft With Martin Reeves: Podcast #278

Consulting Success

Business is a war between problems and solutions. As a business owner, imagination is the best weapon to bring in this war. Imagination is the most crucial ingredient to success.

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22 Powerful Quotes for Entrepreneurs and Leaders

Rick Conlow

The number 22 signifies one of the most powerful of all numbers. It signifies leaders, doers, and visionaries. These are the people who turn the wildest dreams into amazing accomplishments. They possess a strong sense of purpose about what they do. Read these twenty-two quotes about entrepreneurship.

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Digitizing Logistics: Harness the Power of Data in 4 Steps

Entering a new demand gen position in a volatile market is nerve-wracking. In demand generation, data is essential for knowing who you should target and how. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to identify and target your ideal prospects using different types of data.

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No Problem Too Big, No Problem Too Small

Makarios Consulting

Picture, if you will, a business. The clients are well-satisfied: they are receiving a good product, good service, and good quality. Since all that is good, the business is healthy, correct? Not necessarily.

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Consider Persona-Based Stories to Explain Project Status

Johanna Rothman

I thought watermelon status was something “everyone” knew about. But it's not! Read No More Watermelon Status Reports: How to Use Stories to Explain Project State. That's a persona-based approach to help other people understand the project's reality.

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Acing the Fit Interview — Effective Storytelling

Tom Spencer

Acing the Fit Interview: Strategy and Approach Motivation Questions Effective Storytelling Finessing Negative Stories In the third article of this series, you will learn about personal experience questions that demand a different approach from motivation questions.

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A Simple Decision to Improve Your Life

CaseInterview.com

Sometimes very smart people overcomplicate their lives by overthinking things. Here’s one simple decision you can make every day that will dramatically improve your life. Does doing “X” improve the quality of my life (e.g., make me feel good or move me towards my goals)? If yes, do more.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

After gathering some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros, we've package them here for you. Try one of these 16 plays in your next salesflow or as inspiration for your next winning sales engagement strategy.

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How Consulting Will Reinvigorate Your Career With Nabeel Mahmood: Podcast #279

Consulting Success

Are you considering a career shift? Keep in mind that you don’t have to go far from your industry just to find the right one. Consulting is a great choice, and it can elevate your career to a completely different level.

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The creation of one of the largest consulting businesses….ever!

Ben de Haldevang

As part of the new podcast series from the Agile Gorilla Collective, David Boyd, Abhay Pande, Paul Siegenthaler (you can find their bios here [link] – they are an impressive bunch of people!) and I talk through the separation of the EY consulting business as much discussed and written about over the past few months. We address both the operational implications, the impact on clients and how to address the human issues which will undoubtedly arise from the deal.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

An effective team does not come easy. One way to determine how a team is doing involves listening to their comments to one another or others. Check out these seven negative comments. If spoken often then there are days when the manager wonders, “Why bother? I could do this faster myself.”

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