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How to answer, “Why consulting?”, in an interview

Management Consulted

How to answer, “Why consulting?”, in an interview is a must have skill for any prospective consultant. The question is so common, you can pretty much take it to the bank that you’ll hear those words from the person interviewing … Continue Reading. The post How to answer, “Why consulting?”, in an interview appeared first on Management Consulted.

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The Best Way to Sort Consulting Clients into “Types”

David A Fields

As consultants, we are masters of a particularly human trait: simplifying. We boil down a confusingly multifarious muddle into orderly, digestible bites. We apply this ability to trends, situations, strategies, opportunities, and virtually everything else. Including people. Yep, we will happily reduce incomprehensible complexity (which pretty much describes humanity) into a handful of characteristics (which … Continued.

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How Prophetable is Your Consulting?

Consulting Matters

There's two types of consultants. The ones who are drawn to the profession because of the potential for making great money and the prestige that comes from working with the executives. Then there's the ones who are in it for so much more than money. They also want to make a real difference in our overly stressed workplaces. Both types of consultants want and need to be profitable and deserve equitable compensation for their contribution.

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Is It Time to Consider a Fixed Fee for Your Consulting Services?

Successful Independent Consulting

Generally, the more experience you have as an independent consultant, the more likely you should move from billing by the hour to a fixed fee. At some point you’ll master your specialty and work much more efficiently than others. This means to earn what your services are truly worth, you’ll have to keep raising your hourly rates. But at some point, you’ll reach an invisible rate ceiling when clients think you’re too expensive, even if it takes you half the time to do the work.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

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.

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Delta Boarding Zones Change: Business Travelers Get Shafted

Management Consulted

Attention frequent business travelers: the next time you board a Delta Airlines flight, your experience will be drastically different. On January 23, you’ll see a substantial Delta boarding zones change that is sure to rankle frequent business travelers, and quite … Continue Reading. The post Delta Boarding Zones Change: Business Travelers Get Shafted appeared first on Management Consulted.

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How Prophetable is Your Consulting?

Consulting Matters

There's two types of consultants. The ones who are drawn to the profession because of the potential for making great money and the prestige that comes from working with the executives. Then there's the ones who are in it for so much more than money. They also want to make a real difference in our overly stressed workplaces. Both types of consultants want and need to be profitable and deserve equitable compensation for their contribution.

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Aligning Goals with Resources

CaseInterview.com

In a corporate strategic plan, it’s often easy to come up with big goals of what the company could or should do. The far more difficult part is allocating resources (people, finances, attention span) because there are never enough resources to do everything you could do. The same is true in your personal life and career plans. Here’s a simple example.

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Breaking Through The Marketing White Noise

Henry DeVries

In a highly competitive marketing world where every ding, ping and notification can distract the potential client away, how do you break through the distractions? Marketing strategist Minal Sampat shares her strategies for cutting through the marketing white noise.

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The Smart Intern – Networking for a full-time job offer

Tom Spencer

In the previous article on ‘The Smart Intern’, we explored the reasons for networking during the internship including to pursue the goals of understanding the full-time hiring process, achieving visibility, and creating advocacy within the organisation for your full-time hire. In this article, we will take a deep-dive into this goal-based networking process, explore other areas where networking becomes relevant, and at the end look into some networking techniques that have worked for me.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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

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Lessons Learned from Years of Creating Global Digital Empires®

Chad Barr

Creating remarkable content is one of the key attributes of the most successful global thought leaders. Over the years, I have helped many of our clients create thousands of pieces of content in a variety of media formats such as articles, podcasts, videos, books and courses. My key objective when working with clients is to extract their wisdom and creatively, artfully and successfully share it with the world.

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How Valuable Is Your Time?

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

How valuable is your time? I’m not asking what your hourly pay or rate is, but rather, how important is your time to you in ensuring your organization’s success? An indication of how much you value your time is how you use it. As leaders, our intentional use of our time is indicative of what is most important to us as leaders. An organization’s strategic priorities are highlighted by which strategies and programs receive proper funding and management, and which do not.

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Next Gen Training: Building the Right L&D Team

Clarity Consultants

When you need to build a winning learning and development (L&D) team, composition is key. Not only do you need the ideal positions filled - ensuring that critical skill sets are covered - but you also need to focus on professionals with the right mindset. The post Next Gen Training: Building the Right L&D Team appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Why is my talent leaving?

Tom Spencer

Following up on the last instalment, let’s imagine that time and resources have now been given to grow your people into politically influential knowledge experts within your company. You have seen them bring in some great results and you are excited about their potential. However, while helping someone grow professionally is one matter, keeping them at the company is another.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

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.

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Making Critical Decisions with Confidence

Strategy+Business

Nancy McKinstry, the first non-Dutch CEO and first woman CEO of a company listed on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange, transformed Wolters Kluwer, a 183-year-old Dutch publisher, into a global expert solutions provider. She championed diversity, and half of Wolters Kluwer staff and two-thirds of divisional CEOs are women.

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Want to look like an expert? Stop listing all of your services.

Rod Burkert

I hope last week’s conversation about Sisyphus inspires you to think about how you could augment your BVFLS practice with a 1:many side hustle. Break out of the rut you’re in by relying less on pushing the 1:1 client service boulder up the hill just because everyone else does it. On to this week. When I started doing BVFLS work back in the 90s, the body of knowledge was relatively small and the valuation mechanics were not that intricate.

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Is there a place for standardizing processes in art?

Consulthon

Nowadays I think everyone agrees that standardizing processes is a good thing in every industry. What about artworks? Making a masterpiece is a process too, right? Having good organizational habits.

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PM vs PMM: Where do you fit?

Tom Spencer

In technology and software companies, there are product management (PM) and product marketing management (PMM) roles. People often ask, what is the difference between the two roles? They both focus on a product, so how do they divide the tasks that need to be done? Responsibilities of PM and PMM. When you think about a PM’s responsibility, the first thing that comes to mind is communicating with engineers to build a product; and for a PMM, it is creating marketing materials for the product.

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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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Dead or Playing Possum?

Martinka Consulting

In honor of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and other big shopping days, here’s an opinion on the retail industry, trends, and sticking with it. “What goes around comes around” is an old saying meaning things eventually return to their original value after some sort of cycle (and it’s a hit song by Justin Timberlake). How long ago was it when every pundit and everybody you spoke with was saying “retail is dead?

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Should Your Independent Contractors Have Cyber Insurance?

MBO Partners

Cyber insurance helps protect your company from costly data breaches not covered by general or professional liability insurance. Learn the benefits of cyber insurance, what it protects, and why you should consider it if your company engages independent contractors.

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The View from the Top of Women's Tennis

Strategy+Business

Driven by her sense of purpose and helped along the way by megastar players such as Serena Williams, Katrina Adams, the former head of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), has successfully fought for equality and diversity in women's tennis. Adams is a sought-after speaker, and as she steps down from role at the USTA, her experience and cool leadership under pressure have attracted attention from business and finance -- which will be her next career move.

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High CEO Churn, and the 401(k) Turns 40

Harvard Business

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss why CEO departures are occurring so frequently, before unpacking the flaws in our 401(k) system. They also offer their After Hours picks for the week.

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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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Your customer service strategy

Seth Godin Blog

Customer service isn’t simply an expensive, time-consuming obligation. It’s a strategic marketing investment if you want it to be. When Tony built Zappos, he invested in having his customer service people spend hours on the phone with customers, rewarding them for going to great lengths to create memorable interactions. It created a billion dollar shoe store.

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Plan Ahead to Introduce Change

Gina Abudi

Increase your chances of engaging a broader group of stakeholders. When leadership plans ahead before introducing change within the organization, they are more likely to engage a broader group of stakeholders in that change. When a broader group of stakeholders is engaged, there is an increased likelihood of the change being successfully adopted within the [.].

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The View from the Top of Women's Tennis

Strategy+Business

Driven by her sense of purpose and helped along the way by megastar players such as Serena Williams, Katrina Adams, the former head of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), has successfully fought for equality and diversity in women's tennis. Adams is a sought-after speaker, and as she steps down from role at the USTA, her experience and cool leadership under pressure have attracted attention from business and finance -- which will be her next career move.

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Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Harvard Business

Amy Edmondson, professor at Harvard Business School, first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams in 1999. Since then, she has observed how companies with a trusting workplace perform better. Psychological safety isn’t about being nice, she says. It’s about giving candid feedback, openly admitting mistakes, and learning from each other.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.