Successful Independent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
ID 46944176 © Dundja | Dreamstime. It takes practice to quote your consulting billing rate with confidence. The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day. There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. There are lots of ways to do this.
Jacq Hackett Consulting
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects so you need to become an expert project manager if you're going to make a success of it.
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Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
It’s crunch time. That’s right…interview season is here! For many of you, learning how to structure your approach to a case is the most challenging part of the entire case interview process. You’ve been practicing so much that your structurer … Continued. The post Case Interview structure appeared first on Management Consulted.
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
Ever feel you’re fighting a losing battle at work? Compromise and empathy are valuable assets, but sometimes you need to outright get your point across if progress is to be made. Laboring on under a false understanding can just create more trouble down the line – and nobody learns anything if their misconceptions are never … Continue reading "How to win an argument every time (according to science)".
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Women in Consulting
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
:: In retrospect, I’ve always wanted to be an author. Growing up in a bookish family, I spent much of my childhood reading. In college, I majored in English literature while dabbling in psychology and biology. But whenever I tried writing fiction, my inner critic was scathing. Creative writing terrified me. And nonfiction? I wasn’t an expert in anything.
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Consultants' Consultant
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
Consultants Consultant: If you’re doing great things then you’ll be putting yourself under pressure. Staying calm when this happens is what will make it easier. Follow these tips – how to stop choking under pressure here are some more from a bomb disposal expert (wow, that’s REAL pressure!) In years of watching improvisation on stage, I firmly […].
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
What’s Bitcoin worth? At this moment on September 27, 2015, it’s worth $3,786.50. Yet, Wall Street Journal writer James Mackintosh says Bitcoin’s Wild Ride Shows The Truth: It Is Probably Worth Zero. (more…).
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
While business leaders are always worried about disruption, the reality is that companies have more time to react than they think and that an effective response is available to them. Too often, companies respond to the fear of disruption by taking random actions aimed at catching up to competitors or by postponing investments because they fear the outcomes won't be relevant.
Chad Barr
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
I’m a fan of the use of acronyms as they are fun to create and help us better memorize key concepts. Here are a few I previously published: Cyber Strategy Success. Get Noticed. Have You Smacked Your Clients Lately? In the spirit of such acronyms, here is The A through Z of Success Attributes: Create Adventures that encourage exploration and future innovation.
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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
Women in Consulting
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
:: Since founding my consulting company in 2001, I’ve been serving Silicon Valley CEOs as an interim VP marketing. Usually they are running smallish companies and either haven’t yet brought a full-time VP marketing on board or they just lost their VP marketing for some reason. Either way, my clients are wise enough to realize that they’re operating under a handicap – likely losing both mindshare and market share — if this role is vacant.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Micro learning is a powerful tool because it delivers the concepts and information that employees need in less time for greater impact. Just-in-time learning provides an even greater resource for employees to get the on-the-spot resources they need to tackle tough tasks. Here are 5 things you can do to bring this speedy training method into use at your company this summer.
Actionable
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
A key first step in any successful learning or behavior change initiative is to identify the return on expectations—begin with the end in mind. The post Learning Return on Expectations and Lasting Behavior Change appeared first on Actionable.co.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
According to the latest national weather forecast, Hurricane Irma is headed straight for Florida. Puerto Rico will get hit first, on Wednesday. Both Puerto Rico and Florida have declared a state of emergency as Irma Strengthens to Category 4. (more…).
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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.
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
The fear of disruption is often exaggerated. In reality, organizations that are threatened by new technologies and new players usually have more time than they realize to craft an effective response. For further insights, read "The Fear of Disruption Can Be More Damaging than Actual Disruption.
Chad Barr
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
I wrote last week’s newsletter as an offshoot of my recent fear and frustration at having my Florida family, especially my little grandkids, huddling for hours in a closet under their stairs to protect them from Irma’s wrath. Though I offered them safe passage to Cleveland, they followed the orders of their municipality to be prepared and stay put.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Photo by Joshua Jackson. Mindfulness has become the corporate fad du jour , a practice widely touted as a fast-track to better leadership. But we suspect that not all the benefits laid at its feet actually belong there. Our research and analysis has revealed a complicated relationship between mindfulness and executive performance—one that is important for leaders to understand as they seek to develop in their careers.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
There is a real war for talent occurring today. Many companies are already operating with lean staff, due to high attrition rates and not replacing staff, not to mention downsizing as a result of a difficult economy. In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense.
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.
Actionable
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
A key first step in any successful learning or behavior change initiative is to identify the return on expectations—begin with the end in mind. The post Learning Return on Expectations and Lasting Behavior Change appeared first on Actionable.co.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
The Equifax security breach scandal keeps growing and growing. Their handling of the data breach that affected as many as 143 million accounts has been horrendous. Executives dumped their shares before reporting the stolen data. Following the breach, their website did not function properly, people got signed up for programs they did not want or need, and customer service has been dismal all around.
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Medicare Advantage, the program through which Medicare recipients purchase private insurance for out-of-pocket costs, is poised for significant growth. But given structural changes in the market -- in particular a rising focus by the government on reimbursing for the quality of care and consumer preference for plans with high quality ratings -- only a small number of payors will benefit from this growth.
Chad Barr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Last week I devoted my article to the reality that we can’t always control a situation and need to have backup plans. As hard as we try and as prepared as we think we may be, the bottom line is that many situations and events are out of our hands and beyond our control. We witnessed the devastation that hurricane Harvey unleashed on Texas and its residents only to have Mother Nature’s wrath rein down days later on Florida and run its way northward through the southern US.
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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
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
The supermarket and grocery business is likely to suffer strong headwinds in the future, due to long-term shifts in consumer behavior. Although many people don’t realize it yet, grocery shopping and cooking are in a long-term decline. They are shifting from a mass category, based on a daily activity, to a niche activity that a few people do only some of the time.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
There is a real war for talent occurring today. Many companies are already operating with lean staff, due to high attrition rates and not replacing staff, not to mention downsizing as a result of a difficult economy. In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense.
Actionable
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
If we allow the stimuli we’re exposed to every day whisk us into a state of distraction—we may be putting our health, productivity, and humanity at risk. The post Taming the Distraction Habit appeared first on Actionable.co.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
The Census Bureau report Income and Poverty in the US 2016 shows real household income in the US hit a new record high of $59,039 in 2016 thanks to a methodology change and rising incomes of women. Real, inflation adjusted, earnings of men are below where they were in 1973. (more…).
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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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