December, 2012

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Interview Blitz – in London THIS SATURDAY!

Management Consulted

'Have you heard the news? We’re getting a head start on our 2013 Consulting Bootcamp calendar – MC is coming to London this week! Our trip to the UK marks the inauguration of MC’s Consulting Bootcamp service – where we provide a full A-Z on consulting interviews to eager audiences of MBA candidates, business majors, and consulting club members.

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Creating Trust: How to Grow it Right From the Start|Women In.

Women in Consulting

'Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Get the Flash Player to see this player. -->. Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our ind

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Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work

Consulting and Organizational Management

'Library. Translate This. Home. A. A. A. Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. Guest Writer Submissions. Policies. To Subscribe to a Blog. About. Feedback. Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work By Carter McNamara on December 2, 2012. (This post was written by co-host, John Dupre.).

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How Prepared Are You for Next Year?

Chad Barr

Imagine embarking on a US road trip from east to west coast without a plan, a map or a GPS. Similarly, how would you reach dramatic greater success at the end of next year without having created your roadmap? For the past several weeks and over the next few week, I am working with my clients to help them create their own roadmap. I am also glad to report that I have put myself through the same process that I am putting my clients through.

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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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Communicating Organization Change: Separate the Presentation of the Model from the Announcement of the Leadership Team

Kates Kesler

'Whether called a redesign, restructuring, or reorganization, for most employees organization design is synonymous with the appointment of leaders into new roles. The announcement email typically begins with “I am pleased to announce my new leadership team….” Regardless of the thought that went into the change or the attempts to describe the rationale behind it, the announcement is often seen as a reshuffling of responsibilities with some new faces and old.

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Reader FAQ – Switching gears: from intern to full-time, from IT to strategy, and from PwC and IBM to MBB

Management Consulted

'It’s time for our final Reader FAQ for 2012, and we’re going out with a bang. (Even Santa’s reading MC now!) This month we feature questions from readers who want to switch gears – with a focus on moving from non-MBB firms to MBB. Concerns around the move to top 3 plague many MC clients – “I have a great internship and wouldn’t mind staying with this firm.

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S-Corp Owners: Is Your Salary Reasonable?|Women In Consulting.

Women in Consulting

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Predictions for 2013 - Henman Performance

Henman Performance Executive

'Home. About Linda. Client List. Newsletter. Executive blog Contact Us. Predictions for 2013. by Linda Henman on December 31, 2012. As we look back on the year that comes to a close tonight, let’s also look forward to what will come. Of course, no one knows for sure, but my crystal ball just came back from the cleaners, so I’m going to hazard some guesses: Once we avoid, fall over, or push someone over the fiscal cliff, our economy will start to enjoy significant gains.

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Podcasts, videos and free stuff ‘key to online success’

Chad Barr

This article was originally written and posted on 10. Dec, 2012 by Halina St James , founder of Podium Media & Communications Coaching, reports from the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers’ annual convention in Winnipeg. Are you relentless in giving away good stuff? You should be, according to Chad Barr. Chad creates software and internet solutions to help businesses find online success.

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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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When Strengths Clash

Leadership Vision Consulting

'Strengths are generative: a strength produces life in you and in others. This is one of the most fundamental and enduring principals of StrengthFinder™ recurring throughout Gallup’s publications and training. In our experience, whenever there is a potential or actual conflict between people / strengths, we have found more often than not a misunderstanding or(.).

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: Does An Ideal Seatmate Exist?

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, December 12, 2012. Does An Ideal Seatmate Exist? Brought to you by Guest Blogger "Chloe Murray". (Thanks Chloe!). Long distance flights always make me nervous. It’s, not the tight. security and long check- in lines, flight delays or baggage claim. I. can even handle spending long periods of time with no foot rest, no. turning room, and seats that can barely accommodate someone with a. healthy backside.

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10 bank fraud lessons of 2012

MBO Partners

As much as we’d like to think that remote banking is safe, the reality is threats across all customer channels still exist. If we aren’t ready for them we could find ourselves victims of these often preventable crimes. Persistent criminals proved throughout the year that they aren’t going to stop anytime soon. With new and emerging threats facing financial institutions every day, banks need to stay one step ahead of today’s tenacious criminals.

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Be a Better Marketer! Stop Writing Marketing Copy |Women In.

Women in Consulting

'Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Get the Flash Player to see this player. -->. Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our ind

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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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Linebacker II: A Belated Thank You - Henman Performance

Henman Performance Executive

'Home. About Linda. Client List. Newsletter. Executive blog Contact Us. Linebacker II: A Belated Thank You. by Linda Henman on December 18, 2012. Americans frequently express their gratitude to our service members, even though we find ourselves in ongoing unpopular wars. During the Vietnam War, however, the gratitude remained unexpressed and possibly unfelt.

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Chad Speaking at CAPS this Tuesday

Chad Barr

I just arrived to beautiful and snowy, Winnipeg, Canada, (looks just like Cleveland in February) and am delighted to deliver my keynote and breakout session this Tuesday for the CAPS convention. Hope to see you here. Information about my presentation and the great lineup of speakers at this event. My Keynote: Million Dollar Web Presence. My breakout session: Building Your Digital Empire.

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Why Build a Professional Network

Leadership Vision Consulting

'Why am I inviting people to be a part of a professional network? The answer is easy: connection, community, collaboration. Connection Individuals are stronger when connected. I have made many connections through LinkedIn that I highly value. When we connect with each other, we form new relationships and have an opportunity to refine who we are.(.).

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: The Optimization of Leveraging

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. The Optimization of Leveraging. Courtesy of Alert Guest Blogger David Tang: Consultants. Were always optimizing, always leveraging -- always in the pursuit of. minimizing our workload while maximizing our lifestyle. This mode of. conduct carries from using the expense policy, to accumulating hotel. points, to creating our client deliverables.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Keeping Personal and Business Accounts Separate | Women in.

Women in Consulting

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3 Effective Newsletters Ideas

Chad Barr

© Chad Barr 2012. All rights reserved. The post 3 Effective Newsletters Ideas appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Where Do Ideas Come From?

Chad Barr

© Chad Barr 2012. All rights reserved. The post Where Do Ideas Come From? appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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3 Top Web Site Mistakes

Chad Barr

© Chad Barr 2012. All rights reserved. The post 3 Top Web Site Mistakes appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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The Power of Visuals

Chad Barr

© Chad Barr 2012. All rights reserved. The post The Power of Visuals appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Are You Ready to Strengthen Your Thought Leadership?

Chad Barr

What do you think needs to take place in order to strengthen your thought leadership positioning next year? This may be the perfect time to start think about this. With the hope that this may be of help, here is the list I’ve compiled for myself: Create powerful relationships with other thought leaders. Attract thoughts leaders and those on their way to achieve that status or as I would call thought leaders -1.

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Choosing Between Teleconferences and Webinars

Chad Barr

Use a teleconference when you want: The audience to listen to you only and not interact with you. To allow audience interaction, and there is a very small group of people (say 10), and they all use landlines, and they know how to keep a quite surroundings. Otherwise there is way too much noise during such interactions. And if the group is large, just forget it.

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How to Create Provocative Content That Gets Noticed

Chad Barr

Unfortunately, most of the content I view on the web is pure and simple boring and does not grab attention. I also refer to it as suffering the “blah” syndrome. During a conversation with one of my clients today, here is the quick list of tips I develop to create provocative content that gets noticed: Negative titles are a great way to grab attention.

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The Art of Remote Collaboration: How to Successfully Whiteboard with Remote Teams

Just because we're working with a distributed team doesn't mean we have to abandon time-tested tools and methods like whiteboarding. Digital look-alikes often cramp creativity and all but eliminate the humanity of shared interactions. Hardware solutions are also limiting and, of course, expensive and immobile. In an increasingly digital and remote-first world, it’s important for us to select tools and processes that allow us to mitigate if not eliminate the above problems.