Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 30, 2025

As a consultant, its our job to help clients solve problems and operate at their best. Sometimes this is easy, particularly with process or operational improvements. For example, Decrease product returns by moving the quality checks upstream in the process. However, advice becomes challenging when its more personal, like when a business leader needs to change a behavior or a team member acts inappropriately.

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David A Fields

APRIL 15, 2025

There are a few things you know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, about the process of generating revenue for your consulting firm: Are there times or situations that are particularly ripe for building relationships, for avoiding skepticism and for sending chocolate? Yes there are. They can be neatly wrapped up in the pithy saying … Continued The post A Relationship Building Opportunity Your Consulting Firm Shouldn’t Miss appeared first on David A.

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Effective Managers

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the most common assumptions in organizations is this: the best performer on a team is the best candidate to lead it. It seems logical. After all, high performers are dependable, they meet or exceed expectations, and they understand the work deeply. So when a management position opens up, many leaders instinctively turn to their top technical person.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 17, 2025

Magnetic messaging is a short statement that explains who you work with and the value you can create for them. At Consulting Success, we teach our Magnetic Messaging formula: I help [WHO] to [solve WHAT problem] so they can [see WHAT results]. My [WHY choose me]… As a consulting business owner, your magnetic message (also.

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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.

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David A Fields

APRIL 1, 2025

Your consulting firm takes bold actions to win clients and generate value. Today, though, my question is whether focusing on small, mundane acts could accomplish more for your consulting firm. Most people harbor an outsized obsession with the big play… … the highlight reel shot that wins the game, the all-in bet that hits the … Continued The post A Tiny Action with Outsized Impact on Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 18, 2025

Soft skills separate a competent employee from a great one. Communicating, managing conflict, and adapting under pressure isn’t optional; it’s essential. Yet many organizations still struggle to develop these skills at scale, especially in remote or hybrid environments. Here is where soft skills training becomes important. Unlike hard skills, soft skills such as active listening, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking can’t be mastered through static content alone.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy , only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world. In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all.

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Effective Managers

APRIL 11, 2025

A recent Forbes article reports a sobering reality: employee engagement in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level in a decade, with only 31% of employees feeling engaged in their work. Gallups data paints a clear picture of a workforce that is increasingly checked out, and its easy to point fingersat the return-to-office mandates, at younger generations, or at economic uncertainty.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 14, 2025

[podcast_headshot url=”[link] What are the steps involved in transitioning from a successful corporate executive role – having helped scale a startup to IPO – to launching your own thriving consulting firm? Neel Singh, co-founder of the commercialization firm Tropoly, did just that. A long-time listener of the Consulting Success podcast since his executive days, Neel.

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Sales

David A Fields

APRIL 22, 2025

Sit back and imagine your consulting firm as pure, rich, creamy scoops of ice cream. Prospects and consulting opportunities are the hot fudge that pours onto your icy practice in a steady, glossy stream of chocolatey richness. When you put it that way, its hard not to like consulting, right? Except, that you need to … Continued The post 5 Steps to Effective, Consulting Firm Marketing appeared first on David A.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2025

The top 100 applications for LLMs, according to users.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 16, 2025

Many companies invest heavily in hiring and training, yet struggle with high employee turnover and slow productivity. Traditional onboarding methods often rely on outdated classroom training and static materials that fail to engage or equip new hires effectively. As a result, employees feel disconnected, leading to frustration and disengagement. Now is the time to transform corporate onboarding with custom eLearning solutions.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2025

In todays fast-paced business environment, successful product development demands more than just great ideas and cutting-edge technology. It requires collaboration, agility, and a deep understanding of the customer. Cross-functional teams have emerged as a powerful model for fostering innovation and efficiency in product development, allowing companies to break down silos, improve communication, and leverage diverse expertise to create better products, faster.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

APRIL 22, 2025

Your organization was founded on and has worked to maintain a culture of mutual support and respect. These ideals are even memorialized in your organizations values. However, instead of an organization with seamless and respectful communications, supportive cross-team collaborations, and solid performance, youve got departmental silos, inter and intra-team conflicts, and performance thats anything but […] The post Competence Bias is Killing Your Organization appeared first on Weber Busines

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Consulting Success

APRIL 21, 2025

The world is always changing, and big global events like trade wars, political conflicts, or new government rules can shake up your consulting business. Clients may cut budgets, laws may shift, and industries may struggle. If youre not prepared, you could lose income and face major setbacks. Thats why the most important asset you could.

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David A Fields

APRIL 8, 2025

Imagine your consulting firm as a palace. Ideally, frequent storms of consulting opportunities shower your spires and domes, coursing down to sustain the peasants consultants in your employ and nourish your garden of profit. Or, if your consulting firm is not a palace, then perhaps its a house. Or a tent. Or trullo? However you imagine your … Continued The post The Underlying Condition Necessary to Create More Rain at Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2025

Six strategies for mobilizing, engaging, and connecting with others.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 9, 2025

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

In my career, I’ve often seen technical expertise what we call hard skills acclaimed as the cornerstone of professional success. While this is true to a degree, Ive learned that its not enough. The ability to navigate complex challenges, influence stakeholders, and inspire teams requires something more: soft skills. Skills like effective communication, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and resilience are often the deciding factor in whether someone thrives or stalls in their career.

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LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2025

Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: Setting the Stage for Long-Term Success We know from sales leadership simulation assessment data that the pressure on new sales hires to ramp quickly and deliver measurable impact is higher than ever. Yet too often, organizations f ocus too narrowly on product training and neglect the foundational skills for new sales hires to be set up for success.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 28, 2025

[podcast_headshot url=”[link] How can experience in corporate sales roles and a digital marketing side hustle become the foundation for a thriving 7-figure consulting firm? Phil Risher, founder of Phlash Consulting, shares his unique journey, which included running a personal finance blog, living in a converted school bus, and dramatically boosting a client’s business before launching.

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David A Fields

APRIL 29, 2025

What if youre closing consulting deals, but not enough of them? If a healthy percentage of your consulting firms prospects flow down your pipeline to a signed deal, then your fundamentals are working. But what if youre closing every lead in your business development pipeline, yet you’re still falling short of your consulting revenue target? Robust pipelines … Continued The post How Successful Consulting Firms Attract More Opportunities appeared first on David A.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2025

In theory, tariffs could give U.S. companies an opportunity to scale—but many are too far behind foreign competitors to gain an advantage.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 3, 2025

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital world, businesses must be agile, innovative, and customer-centric. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through data-driven product development. By leveraging insights gained from data analytics, companies can make smarter decisions, create products that better meet customer needs, and ultimately stay ahead of the competition.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Halo Psych

APRIL 7, 2025

Youve recently taken on another team. Its been a couple of months, and youve spotted some issues namely that there are a few people in the team who are either underperforming, or who have a questionable attitude. Here are some of the things youve experienced which is ringing alarm bells: Undermining you on decisions Ignoring your requests Passive-aggressive behaviour Argumentative behaviour, including in front of other people If this resonates with you, then just know youre not alone.

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LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2025

How to Reinforce Organizational Change: Turning Intent into Impact When organizations undergo change, the initial rollout is only half the battle. Successful shifts in strategies, structures, processes, technologies, or people lie in the ability to reinforce organizational change: embedding the change so it becomes part of the organizations ways of working and thinking.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Strategic portfolio management software is an indispensable component of these systems. These tools are essential for translating the strategy into action, while their features should guarantee optimal resource allocation and utilization, risk management , and prioritization of projects and tasks.

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