Sat.Jun 03, 2023 - Fri.Jun 09, 2023

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An Easy Routine that Will Help Your Consulting Firm Grow

David A Fields

As a consulting firm leader, you’re winning projects, delivering client delight, upgrading your support infrastructure and pondering strategies for growth. What if there was a simple routine you could layer into your ongoing activities that would accelerate your progress? Your consulting firm may already incorporate a post-project retrospective into your standard operating approach.

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How Consultants Can Create Lucrative Accreditation Programs With Skip Bowman: Podcast #293

Consulting Success

How can you get accredited for the psychometric tools? What challenges do you have to face in getting accreditation? In this episode, Skip Bowman, the founder of Safe2Great, provides insights on creating lucrative accreditation programs and explains the Safe to Great model. The concept of the model is useful for the business. It brings people.

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2 Foundational Questions of a Great Strategy…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

It is debatable whether anyone can call a strategy “great” until you see the results of the efforts the strategy creates. But there are two essential questions at the heart of setting a good strategy: Who is your customer? What do they value? Begin with the customer. No customer, no business. Simple, foundational, but often missed because people become enamored with a new technology, tool, or idea.

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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges

Organizational Talent Consulting

The future workforce is more diverse than ever. Census data confirms cultural diversity is growing faster than predicted, especially among Gen Z. A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. Regardless of your industry, you will likely experience vast differences between cultural expectations among employees, challenges in attracting and retaining culturally diverse talent, and the growing need to

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Saving Opportunities That Will Recession-Proof Your Business

Often unknown to businesses are savings opportunities in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Your life experiences, professional background, and relationship skill set can lead you to success. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, can assist you in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Strategic Pricing™ and Teammates

Granite Leadership Strategies

In Government contracting, teammates are often the best way to add important capabilities to your proposal to improve your evaluation score and improve your probability of winning. Teammates come with their good qualifications and their fair price, and their bad price too. Strategic pricing involves how Government contractors can effectively work with teammates to get to their target price.

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Boost Your Online Presence Using Warm Website Photography with Suzanne Rothmeyer

Consulting Matters

Can your image make or break your business's success? Find out how personal branding photography can transform your online presence and create a powerful connection with potential clients. Join me, Betsy Jordan, as I chat with the incredibly talented Suzanne Rothmeyer, a photographer with over 20 years of industry experience and a specialization in personal branding photography.

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The Transformative Power of AI in Business

Tom Spencer

In the digital age, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to gain a competitive edge and streamline their operations. One technology that is revolutionizing the business landscape is artificial intelligence (AI). From enhancing customer experiences to optimizing decision-making processes, AI is reshaping the way businesses operate and opening up new possibilities for growth.

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IQVIA Interview: Secrets to Landing Your Dream Job

Management Consulted

So, you’ve set your sights on a career at IQVIA? Well, get ready to embark on an exhilarating journey! IQVIA, the leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services, is renowned for its top-notch talent and… Read Article The post IQVIA Interview: Secrets to Landing Your Dream Job appeared first on Management Consulted.

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How Product Risks Differ from Project Risks

Johanna Rothman

Up until now, when thinking about risks, I defaulted to the risks in the project pyramid. That's because each project offers different value over the product's lifetime. (See Product Roles, Part 4: Product Orientation and the Role of Projects for images of why we want ever-increasing product value, but why we might space the projects out.) If we understand our boundaries and constraints, we can trade off the various risks in the project.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

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.

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Your Data Strategy Needs to Include Everyone

Harvard Business

An entirely new “management paradigm” for data is needed. As used here, a “management paradigm” embodies a common language, a holistic vision of the ways data should contribute, a clearly defined organizational structure showing how data integrates across the organization, along with clear roles and responsibilities for all involved. Eventually, it needs to incorporate corporate culture, relationships with universities and vendors, policy, and anything else that advances, or holds back the effec

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Completing Graduate School Like a Consultant

Tom Spencer

Whether you are studying for your MBA , Ph.D., or J.D., graduate school is an incredible opportunity to learn as much as you can. You might be completing case studies, conducting experiments, and writing lengthy legal reports, all of which will prepare you for your career. As someone who recently completed graduate school and began a consulting career, I have learned what was useful and important during my academic career as well as what was a waste of time.

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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options

PM Alliance

Though workers are beginning to spend more time back in a traditional office environment, many still want to maintain the flexibility gained during the pandemic to work remotely when it’s more appropriate or convenient. This desire for a truly hybrid experience extends to project management, where project teams and stakeholders face a growing need to strike a similar balance within processes and workflows as new technologies and new ways of working change how activities are carried out.

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Research Reveals Eight In Ten Companies Want Stronger Agency Relationships

Henry DeVries

A research study provides valuable information for marketing agencies. Learn about the three types of marketing decision-makers.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

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

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To Build a Top Performing Team, Ask for 85% Effort

Harvard Business

An outdated way of thinking about peak performance is: “maximum effort = maximum results.” But research shows that it doesn’t actually work that way in reality. Here’s what actually works: The 85% rule, which counterintuitively suggests that to reach maximum output, you need to refrain from giving maximum effort. Operating at 100% effort all of the time will result in burnout and ultimately less-optimal results.

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The Art of Persuasion: Building Buy-In and Inspiring Teams for Success W/ Alastair Wood

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Have you ever needed to secure buy-in from a board member or a potential employee in order to have them join your team or gain their support for a project? How did you handle the situation, and what insights did you gain from it? In this interview, we have the privilege of talking to Alastair Wood , Vice-President & General Counsel at Rhino , a New York-based real estate startup that aims to bring greater financial freedom to renters everywhere.

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OPERA America’s Survey Shows an Industry in Freefall…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

Hi! 15th June 2023 at 1 PM Eastern time: we are doing another FREE webinar on brand management for professional services. If you sell into the world of tickets as a service or tool provider, this is likely up your alley. My ambition is to do one of these a month as a way to replace a little bit of the traveling I might have done in the past. So let me know what you’d like me to cover.

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How to Combat AI-Enhanced Scams

Kraft Kennedy

With the introduction of AI tools, bad actors are running complex phishing scams at a higher volume than ever, forcing organizations to increase their security posture on the digital and human front. What is AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) leverages digital tools to complete tasks that would normally require human thinking or decision making. One type of AI tool that has become very popular across the business and consumer sectors is the large language model (LLM).

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The Art of Remote Collaboration: How to Successfully Whiteboard with Remote Teams

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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Managing the Risks of Generative AI

Harvard Business

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely popular, but its adoption by businesses comes with a degree of ethical risk. Organizations must prioritize the responsible use of generative AI by ensuring it is accurate, safe, honest, empowering, and sustainable. Organizations need to be mindful of the ethical implications and take necessary steps to reduce risks.

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The Peerage

Alan Weiss

A “buyer” in my terms is someone who has the budget and authority to give you money in return for your value. You need to find out if the person with whom you’re speaking can do that. If so, establish a trusting relationship and move toward a proposal or letter of agreement. If not, ask that person to introduce you to the actual buyer.

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The Future of Digital Marketing: Predictions and Expectations

Chad Barr

John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” With this in mind, it’s clear that the landscape of digital marketing is continuously and rapidly evolving, transforming and impacting our lives and businesses across various aspects. Today, let’s delve into four of these crucial aspects: Personalization: This has become a focal point in digital marketing.

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A Riff on the Padres/MLB/RSN and the Business of Sports…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

Is it possible for the Padres and MLB to maintain the same business model and revenue now that Diamond Sports Group has walked away from its media rights deal? No. I’ve got two reasons why I think this doesn’t work: The idea of sliding from the RSN model to an OTT model is hard to imagine. In most cases, the RSN model has worked because cable subscribers were locked into 24-month contracts and most of the packages included channels like the RSNs that customers didn’t really car

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Buyer's Guide for Management Consultants

Whether you're a small firm or a large enterprise, the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Buyer's Guide for Professional Services is a must-read for any Professional Services firm looking into Microsoft Dynamics 365. This guide will provide an overview of the entire platform and answer questions about features, selection, purchasing, implementation, and support of the Dynamics 365 suite of solutions.

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AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future

Harvard Business

Despite the buzz surrounding it, the prominence of prompt engineering may be fleeting. A more enduring and adaptable skill will keep enabling us to harness the potential of generative AI? It is called problem formulation — the ability to identify, analyze, and delineate problems.

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3 Lessons from this year’s Annual Insights Report

Actionable

This year’s report may well be our most robust, now including data from 6000+ training sessions and 39,000+ participants. Here are three of my biggest takeaways from the report. The post 3 Lessons from this year’s Annual Insights Report appeared first on Actionable.co.

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How to avoid boring team meetings

The Management Centre

Meetings can be fun, empowering and a way to enable new thinking. They bring people together, to share information and collaborate. Sadly, they can also be the polar opposite – dull, frustrating events where nothing gets decided and everyone’s time is wasted. We often hear from participants on our training programmes that they actually dread team meetings.

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Impressions

Alan Weiss

The first and last person you meet in a good hotel is the doorman. It’s important that it be a positive experience. Guests don’t generally meet management on arrival. The same applies to a restaurant and the host, or the large company and the receptionist. What’s the first and last impression people have dealing with you? Speaking for myself, it will never be a virtual assistant.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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3 Strategies to Boost Sales and Marketing Productivity

Harvard Business

A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses. As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy. Research shows the three ways companies can do this are to refine the go-to-market model, turn every rep into an A player, and make sales and marketing support more efficient.

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Save the silver bullet – a shameless piece of self promotion!

Ben de Haldevang

Please indulge me for a moment as I look back at the last year following the publication of my book, ‘Save the Silver Bullet…The small steps to successful transformation’ It has been an extraordinary time for me with opportunities to speak to global and local organisations, industry bodies and at major conferences on the drivers of successful transformation.

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Productive assets and useful flows

Seth Godin Blog

Assets are ownable. They are devices, skills, connections or properties that allow us to amplify our effort and do our work with more impact. A drill press is an asset, so is your law degree. The permission you have to talk with your customers, the benefit of the doubt you get from your patients and the freedom to expand into a new territory are all assets.