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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Where is the line between performance feedback and bullying? When does hustle culture become abusive and dangerous? Toxic company cultures are all too common in modern businesses. One in five Americans have left a job in the past five years due to bad company culture, according to a recent SHRM report on workplace culture. The cost of that turnover is an estimated $223 billion.
Brimstone Consulting
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate without furthering meeting fatigue. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of meetings per person has increased by 12.9%, and the number of attendees per meeting has increased by 13.5%. Our time spent in meetings has increased by 5% , and fragmented time (blocks of time to work shorter than two hours) has increased by 23%.
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Jerry Fletcher
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
It’s great until it isn’t. It can be the backbone of the sharing of your body of intellectual property or it can delay the release by days, weeks or months or, in some cases years. Change. The inherent problem as well as solution with technology is that It keeps changing. Engineers and software designers keep trying to simplify things and, in my view, have achieved wonders.
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
You can create the perfect dashboard for your consulting firm by combining two ideas we’ve explored previously. Specifically, when you apply the 3 Rocks evaluation approach to your consulting firm’s Vital Signs, you’ll have yourself a nifty, simple, action-oriented tool that instantly tells you where you stand and prioritizes your consulting firm’s efforts.
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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.
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Do you groan when you think of having another virtual meeting? Do you feel burn-out sitting in front of your camera all day? What if virtual meetings didn’t leave you with “Zoom fatigue” — but instead, you left your meetings feeling energized and excited? In a recent mastermind event with a select group of our. How To Run The Perfect Virtual Meeting With Your Clients is a post from: Consulting Success.
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Consulting Matters
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Are you tired of the endless chase for small-paying consulting gigs? Are you so over those labor intensive projects that keep you as busy as you were when you were an employee? Do you want to stop under-valuing yourself through sub-contracting with other consultants and take your place as a sought-after advisor to the C-Suite? Then you're going to love this tutorial video because it will reveal to what the true purpose is for the consultant's role and how to fulfill your potential in this role.
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Several of my clients want to use some sort of maturity assessment for their agile transformations. Often, the maturity levels demand adherence to specific practices or processes. Some of those practices and processes work for my clients now. (I'm not so sure about others.). As my clients evolve, will what they do now continue to work in the future?
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Many people assume that eLearning is automatically a bit impersonal. When classes are taught through online forums and video conferencing, there’s a kind of distance between the instructors and students, particularly a physical one. However, eLearning doesn’t inherently lack the human elements many students need. In fact, it can actually foster strong connections and, ultimately, be quite intimate, sometimes achieving.
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
You may have fabulous content and ideas to share with your consulting firm’s prospects and clients, and you may even have provocative titles that attract readers, listeners and viewers to your content. Yet, unless you run your thought leadership and marketing content through one, critical filter, you could still miss the mark. Let’s look closer. … Continued.
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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
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
A lot of people think they need to be perfect before they put themselves out there. Marcia Reynolds realized mastering and trusting your emotions to allow yourself to just go and do something can be very powerful if you let it. Drawing on her corporate experience teaching communication skills and working with leaders, she built her. How To Master Your Emotions As A Consulting Business Owner With Marcia Reynolds: Podcast #158 is a post from: Consulting Success.
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Doing a virtual case interview has become likely in the post Covid-19 world. They actually weren’t uncommon before, for remote candidates, but now a lot of firms are doing case interviews virtually. There are marked differences to doing a case… Read Article. The post Virtual Case Interview appeared first on Management Consulted.
Consulting Matters
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Are you thinking about becoming a consultant but not sure what the consultant's role entails? Are you currently a consultant and tired of shadow boxing negative stereotypes about this role and want to be seen as an essential strategic partner to executives? Then you're going to love this tutorial video because it will reveal to what the true purpose is for the consultant's role and how to fulfill your potential in this role.
Johanna Rothman
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
I have finally opened my first writing workshop, Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Writer again. It took me a while to figure out how to organize the workshop so everyone (including me) could succeed. I'm planning to offer the workshop once a quarter. See Q4 2020 Writing Workshop 1 for more details. This workshop is for you if: You want to make writing easier for you.
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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.
The Source
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Personally, I like to start these blogs with some sort of pop culture analogy that neatly illustrates the topic at hand—or, failing that, a humorous industry anecdote. But there are some topics and some moments where that sort of levity feels out of place. At the time of writing, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a worldwide reckoning on issues of structural racism, and organisations of all stripes are being forced to consider how they can contribute to the global effort to dismantle e
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Sambar “Sam” Whitetail, CEO of Ungulate Chocolates asks your consulting firm to facilitate a one-day work session. Wonderful. You generally don’t fawn over executives who offer small engagements; however, Sam’s well connected and Ungulate’s owned by a PE company with a herd of prospective clients. After conducting the Context Discussion, you suspect Ungulate could use … Continued.
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
A lot of times, the best marketing isn’t what you say about yourself but what others say about you. Being on top of your relationship management skills is a definite must in order to keep your network solid. Frank Forte, the President of Forte Leadership Technology, joins Michael Zipursky to explain how relationships work in building your. Why You Must Master Your Relationship Management Skills With Frank Forte: Podcast #155 is a post from: Consulting Success.
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Profitability cases are very common in case interviews. Many businesses are looking to consultants to guide them toward increased profitability. That of course means firms are looking for candidates to be familiar with how to handle this type of case.… Read Article. The post Profitability Case Walkthrough- BCG Style appeared first on Management Consulted.
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.
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes. At the most basic level a consulting engagement (or any strategic project) will typically contain three-phases: Structure and propose a strategy. Implement and execute on the strategy. Track the performance of the strategy. Phase 1 and 2 are where the consultants spend most of their time, but phase 3 is also an essential part of the project to measure the success of a strategy and adjust any tactical recommendations where needed.
The Management Centre
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
We all know that effective communication is crucial at work. When conversations are easy and free flowing, we work easily with others, solve problems and have fun. But some conversations are less straight-forward. These conversations can make us uncomfortable and put us on edge. They make us worry about what the other person really thinks about us. To understand these different conversations, we can learn a lot from social psychology.
The Source
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Sustainability could be one of the most important post-COVID consulting markets. But how well positioned are consulting firms to exploit it? In 2019, demand for digital transformation work, which combined strategy, technology, process, and behavioural change, grew by 16%, while demand for more standard and stand-alone services contracted by 1%. If we include other, fast-growing, similarly multidisciplinary work, such as analytics, the growth rate for work straddling the traditional consulting se
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Plenty of athletes earn fame and recognition for their brilliant, first year (a.k.a., their rookie year). They’re showered with champagne, praise and confetti… which sticks to the champagne—that part wasn’t well planned out. Far, far fewer of those phenoms are known for their extraordinary, enduring career. Why? Because they make a rookie mistake. The same … Continued.
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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
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Do you work on your entrepreneurial mindset? Are you taking care of your mental game just as much as your physical health & well-being? At Consulting Success®, we believe that your mindset plays a major role in how well you do in business. But we wanted to see if the stats backed it up. This. Entrepreneurial Mindset Study 2020: The Mindset of Successful Consultants is a post from: Consulting Success.
CaseInterview.com
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
In industry, whether your ideas get taken seriously depends on more than the quality of your thoughts. If the receptionist shares an idea and the CEO shares the exact same idea, more people will take the idea seriously when it comes from the CEO. Most people intuitively grasp that the last sentence is true but don't know how to acquire or borrow power when they lack it.
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes. The coronavirus epidemic has rattled the planet. Universities are shutting down or going to online learning, California has issued a mandatory lockdown for its 40 million residents. The UK has 3,500 known cases of the virus and London will probably be shut down in the next week, if not before. Commerce has ground to a halt. The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil
The Management Centre
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
What could possibly go wrong? We all know that risk management is an important part of project planning. But for many people it was seen as a useful add-on to consider when planning rather than an essential skill we all need to master. For all of us, project planning in 2020 has been dramatically different. Covid-19 has changed what we do and how we do it.
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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.
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