Consulting Success
MAY 27, 2025
As a consultant, your expertise is your livelihood, and getting paid on time is non-negotiable for maintaining a thriving business. Yet, many consultants face the challenge of delayed payments, which can strain cash flow and create unnecessary stress. Whether you’re just starting or already have an established practice, having a solid strategy to ensure timely.
Successful Independent Consulting
MAY 31, 2025
As self-employed consultants, we often find ourselves caught in a paradox. We spend countless hours crafting insightful blogs, creating newsletters, and posting on social media, yet we struggle to convert those prospects into clients. Sure, being visible is important for generating awareness of your services, but here's what I've learned after decades in this business: nobody hires a consultant or coach without having at least one conversation first.
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David A Fields
MAY 6, 2025
As a consulting firm leader, youve probably wondered more than once how you can increase the Need for the services you offer potential clients. So, how do you? That’s a trick question. Your consulting firm doesnt create or increase needs; you discover or reveal them. If not enough potential clients suffer from the problem you solve, then … Continued The post Clients Don’t Know They Need Your Consulting Firm?
Harvard Business
MAY 23, 2025
Four moves that will buy you time, create options, and protect you against the worst.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Consulting Success
MAY 27, 2025
Hiring a consultantis one of the most strategic decisions a business can make. Whether you’re looking to solve a specific challenge, scale your operations, or gain an outside perspective, consultants bring a wealth of expertise and value. However, knowing when to hire a consultant, why they are necessary, and how to pick the right one.
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Clarity Consultants
MAY 30, 2025
You’ve invested in employee training. The LMS is in place. The content is live. However, engagement and retention are low, and your people still turn to Google or Slack channels to find answers they should already know. Here’s the truth: the problem isn’t your people. It’s the way you’re delivering learning. Traditional training methods, even digital ones, ask too much of learners: time, focus, and endurance.
Epicflow
MAY 23, 2025
The way you manage team workloads can make or break your project success, especially when juggling multiple projects at the same time. Its the key to seamless workflows, fewer bottlenecks, and high team performance. But in a multi-project environment, keeping workloads balanced is easier said than done. What are the effective workload management strategies you need to implement to ensure balanced workloads and high productivity?
David A Fields
MAY 13, 2025
Your consulting firm is chock full of problem solvers, synthesizers, and connect-the-dotters. Yep, youre a bastion of cerebral smarty-pants, and your firm uses its mega-intellect to set your clients on the path to success. Sure, some clients toss around scientific terms like petabyte, zetabyte and yottabyte while you fall back on gibberish like GenAI enablement, … Continued The post Your Consulting Firms Message Isnt LandingHeres Why appeared first on David A.
Harvard Business
MAY 23, 2025
Always ask “What is the denominator?
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Consulting Success
MAY 12, 2025
[podcast_headshot url=”[link] How does a consultant transition from building digital products to establishing a specialized operations consulting firm, growing it to a 15-person team without ever running a single advertisement?
Consulting Matters
MAY 22, 2025
Have you ever fantasized about stepping away from your business—really stepping away—but quickly dismissed the thought as impossible? If so, you're not alone. Before I took a sabbatical, I had all the same questions: Who even takes a sabbatical? What do you do with the time? How do you fund it? Will my business collapse? The truth is, stepping away was the best thing I’ve ever done.
Clarity Consultants
MAY 23, 2025
Attracting top talent is only part of the equation. The real differentiator lies in keeping employees engaged, motivated, and committed over the long term. Learning and Development (L&D) plays a critical role in shaping an organization’s future through intentional career development, strategic upskilling, and a clear focus on employee retention.
Epicflow
MAY 8, 2025
Traditional project management methods are often insufficient for the present-day uncertain and resource-constrained project management landscape. This is where critical chain project management comes into play. In contrast to other methodologies, this project management tool helps optimize resource utilization , reduce bottlenecks, and address uncertainties.
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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.
David A Fields
MAY 27, 2025
Whats the heaviest chain restraining your consulting firms growth (in revenue, margin, lifestyle, or all three)? You already know the answer, because you’re a smart consultant: Your perspective. You may believe, and even eloquently argue, that your consulting firm is limited by your capabilities, the size of the market you serve, your buyers particular predilections, … Continued The post 5 Steps to Unlock a Massively Audacious Future for Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A
Harvard Business
MAY 22, 2025
A guide to help leaders design, test, and scale their human-AI labor strategy.
Consulting Success
MAY 31, 2025
Specialization is one of the most debated topics among consultants. It’s a topic I’ve written and talked about on several occasions. Should you focus on a niche, or should you remain a generalist to keep your options open? After years of working with thousands of consultants globally, the answer is clear: specialization is the key.
Tom Spencer
MAY 30, 2025
Mastering client expectations is one of the most crucial skills in management consulting. Well-managed client relationships lead to better results, long-term trust, and increased retention. When expectations are misaligned, projects can quickly become derailed, leading to frustration, missed deadlines, and even scope creep, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project’s scope.
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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.
Clarity Consultants
MAY 1, 2025
Some corporate training programs are beautiful failures. They check all the boxes for compliance-ready, LMS-integrated, and SCORM-compliant but still fall flat regarding what matters: behavior change, learner engagement, and real-world performance. Employees rush through modules, click “Next” until the final quiz, and forget 90% of what they learned by Friday.
Epicflow
MAY 29, 2025
Project portfolio management is the core of any project-based organization that aims to reach its strategic objectives, and resource management plays a pivotal role in this process. Let’s consider portfolio resource management importance, its benefits and challenges, and tools to make it as effective as possible. What Is Portfolio Resource Management?
MishTalk
MAY 28, 2025
The new $888 million plan marks GMs largest investment in an engine plant.
Harvard Business
MAY 22, 2025
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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.
Consulting Success
MAY 26, 2025
[podcast_headshot url=”[link] How does a seasoned corporate lawyer and former General Counsel for a global foundation transition from a world of high-stakes legal and philanthropic work to building a specialized social impact consulting firm – all while initially harboring deep skepticism about the consulting industry itself? Scott Curran, Founder and CEO of Beyond Advisers, shares.
Tom Spencer
MAY 30, 2025
What makes you memorable in a sea of equally qualified young professionals? The answer lies in cultivating a brand that reflects your unique strengths, helps you build a network that supports your career trajectory, and clearly communicates your value to your target audience. This isnt about creating a facade or simply chasing trends its about strategically shaping the way youre perceived and ensuring that perception aligns with who you are and where you want to go.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
MAY 21, 2025
What the heck? Why isnt this working? Youve done everything right. Youve taken ownership of cultural and leadership issues that pre-date you. Youve been transparent with your team on your own challenges, missteps, and failures. Youve outlined and communicated a simple, but effective plan to turn things around. Now, here you are, six months into […] The post Connect the Dots for Them appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.
Epicflow
MAY 14, 2025
The increasing impact of digitalization and big data requires new approaches to project management to increase project performance and improve resource utilization. In this regard, project management AI software meets these needs by equipping companies with the right tools to manage projects and resources most effectively. But its very easy to get lost in the wide range of tools available on the market, isnt it?
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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
MishTalk
MAY 6, 2025
There are three messages. Do you see them?
Harvard Business
MAY 12, 2025
A new study found that employees who disconnect from work are seen as more effective by their managers—but also less promotable.
LSA Global
MAY 22, 2025
How to Lead Your First Team: A Top 10 Guide for New Managers We know from people manager assessment center data that new leaders struggle with the question of how to lead your first team. Whether promoted from within or hired externally, a successful transition to manager requires a fundamental transformation in ownership mindset , responsibility, and impact.
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