Consulting Matters
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Ready to take your place as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the C-Suite? Today, I am sharing my secrets to working with the C-Suite in this first episode of my new Organizational Consulting 101 Series.
David A Fields
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Oh wow, you’re a contestant on the new game show, Set Your Fees! Let’s listen in on the cheesy announcer. He seems to be giving you a choice of three doors.… “Door #1 is sponsored by Recession. Faced with uncertain revenues and reluctant prospects?
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Successful Independent Consulting
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Solopreneurship is not the right career choice for everyone. You have to do things you’ve never done before and push your boundaries, all while trying to earn a living.
Kai Davis
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
As a friend reminded me this morning, there are only 31 days left in 2022 ( ). What do you want your 2023 to look like in terms of projects, clients, and projected revenue? Here’s how I approach answering that question and plotting out my projects and projections for the coming year.
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Makarios Consulting
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
It’s that time of year again – the time when leaders review the past year, frequently introducing the task with phrases like “What are the lessons learned?” or “Where can we do better?” or even “Let’s sit down and do a postmortem.”
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Consulting Matters
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Today I'll discuss the positioning traps that hold consultants back from their impact and earning potential.
David A Fields
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Good news: your consulting firm has been asked to submit a proposal by Phil Yerwiech, CEO of herb eradication giant, Thyme Begone. Bad news: developing that proposal will consume time, and you’re already busy.
Successful Independent Consulting
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
"As a solopreneur, does it matter how I get paid?” Absolutely! In the U.S., being paid on a 1099 tax basis as a business instead of on a W-2 tax basis like a temp worker makes a huge difference to your profitability for two key reasons: You can pay less tax. You can save more for retirement.
Virtual Project Consulting
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Business leaders understand that soft skills play an essential role in effectively leading others. Discover ways to advance your soft skills and become a better leader. The post How to Advance Your Soft Skills as a Business Leader first appeared on Virtual Project Consulting.
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SME Strategy
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Your organization's success depends on its ability to execute on your strategic plan. Implemeting your strategic plan on your own can be difficult. Because you are busy working in the business that it's hard to make time to work on the business.
Consulting Success
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Every entrepreneur wants their business to be a huge success. But sometimes, even the best entrepreneurs get tired of the rat race in corporate.
Consulting Matters
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Have you ever gotten tongue tied when someone asks you what you do? I know I have! Today, I’m wrapping up my "Brand You" series by sharing tips and a script that gets people curious and excited about what you do. What do you do?"
David A Fields
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
As a consulting firm leader you encounter youngsters and corporate folks who gaze on your practice with admiration and ask you what it takes to start a consulting firm. Your answer can be refreshingly simple. A simple Google search reveals 13.83
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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.
Clarity Consultants
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
When you’re overseeing a learning and development (L&D) project, ensuring it heads in the right direction every step of the way is essential.
Makarios Consulting
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Decisions, decisions! Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. In fact, it is possible to make the right decision but make it in the wrong way.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
If we want more ease and better results, we need to be able to change when the world changes. Yet, we don't always notice these changes, so we don't create options and experiment. Too often, we feel as if the world drags us down. We double-down on what we've been doing.
Consulting Success
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Everybody strives hard to become successful. But what does a successful consulting look like? In today’s episode, Brian Oulton, a top consulting coach, reveals everything. He shares his path of business development through pivoting from the challenges he faced.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Four strategies to motivate and inspire your team. Business communication Business writing Presentation skills Collaboration and teams Internal communication Managing yourself Leading teams Digital Article
David A Fields
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
You don’t have to run a consulting firm, you know. You could return to a corporate role or enter an entirely different profession like law, accounting or dairy farming. If you’re going to lead a consulting practice, consulting should make you happy. Just sayin’.
Rick Conlow
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Servant leaders do not care that much for generational differences. I have found that factors such as age, or sex, or background, or religion are oblivious to them. While at the same time they take a keen and sensitive approach to each employee’s potential, needs and aspirations.
CaseInterview.com
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
It has taken me nearly four decades to learn the following distinction between pain versus suffering. At first glance, they seem the same. Pain does not feel good. Suffering does not feel good. The difference is purpose.
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Successfully complete the five stages of ABM: define, identify, engage, convert, and connect. We’ll show you how to create a unified system with your sales team to help them land more qualified opportunities and connect with prospects like never before.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
I started this series by realizing managers have (too) many decisions to make. The longer it takes managers to make any single decision, the longer it might take to make all the decisions. That's Little's Law, applied to decisions.
Consulting Success
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Should you provide consulting for equity? A few years ago, I was in New Orleans sitting by the pool at our villa. I received an urgent email from a Clarity Coaching client: “I have an early-stage prospective client and they really want to work with me.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Ditch the lofty purpose statements and lengthy slide decks. Corporate strategy Organizational change Corporate communications Business communication Digital Article
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
An association executive director asked during a recent coaching conversation, “Am I doing something wrong, or why are the strategic plan review meetings I hold with my senior staff so boring?
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Sourcing the right executive candidates and filling key managerial roles in an organization can be difficult, even in the best of times. Download this eBook to level up your discovery process, talent sourcing, and strategies for reaching your best-fit candidates.
Rick Conlow
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
You can measure employee engagement by the performance of employees, or a company compared to the competition. Highly engaged employees, according to research: Sell more. Serve customers better. Stay longer at their company. Share more ideas and input.
CaseInterview.com
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Over the past years, I’ve been intrigued by why airplanes crash. Yes, I suppose it’s a slightly morbid fascination, but I suspect it has to do with a general tendency of mine to learn from mistakes to prevent future catastrophes.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Many managers feel pressure to deliver finished work. They plan and replan—and ask the teams to plan and replan. They plan to be able to predict the future. But there are several problems with all this planning: These plans require prediction at all levels, from strategy to product to what the team delivers. That's a lot of pre-commitment to long roadmaps, large and long portfolios, and long backlogs.
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