Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
As the owner of a small firm, what consulting leadership style will help you build a successful business? In this article, you’ll learn effective forms of leadership to help you start, grow, and scale a consulting firm in 2023.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.
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David A Fields
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
You see a lot of book lists floating around the interwebs. Many contain great recommendations of useful books for consulting firm leaders. However, the books on the list are largely not unexpected or trajectory shifting. (I
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.
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ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?
Steve Shu Consulting
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
My level of awareness was heightened this week by correspondence with the brilliant Mac Hodell (former Principal at BCG). We were exchanging ideas about definitive references for management consultants related to the visual aspect of presentations. To cut a long story short, he brought up the powerful idea of maximizing the Insight:Ink ratio on slides. How might this work? One could add ink to a presentation slide while increasing insight dramatically.
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Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
I’m super excited to have my treasured client and colleague Michelle Massman on the show. During our conversation, we explore the power of taking action and openness to figure things out and its impact on long-term success as an entrepreneur.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
If you, as I, write frequently, you might wonder where is the “best” place to publish your writing. You might think social media, especially Medium or LinkedIn, is the “best” in terms of eyeballs. That's people to the rest of us.)
Makarios Consulting
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
What would happen if a significant number of the people in your organization were not performing and executing well in their roles? Can you imagine the employee frustration? The operational inefficiency? The customer complaints? The profit loss? You may not have to imagine it.
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Product design is more creative than engineering, more practical than art, and more hands-on than graphic design Product design is a field that involves the creation and development of new products or product improvements.
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More than two years in, COVID-19 is far from over. Businesses are tasked with beating pre-COVID numbers, making marketing crucial. This is your time to create brand awareness, bring in the best leads, and play a vital role in new and existing profit.
Rick Conlow
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
An effective team does not come easy. One way to determine how a team is doing involves listening to their comments to one another or others. Check out these seven negative comments. If spoken often then there are days when the manager wonders, “Why bother? I could do this faster myself.”
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
A well-told story can help employees and other stakeholders understand how your business works and where it’s heading. Strategy formulation Corporate strategy Competitive strategy Entrepreneurial business strategy Global strategy Strategy Strategy execution Digital Article
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Acing the Fit Interview: Strategy and Approach Motivation Questions Effective Storytelling Finessing Negative Stories In the third article of this series, you will learn about personal experience questions that demand a different approach from motivation questions.
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Henry DeVries
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
I had interesting conversations at the pre-Super Bowl LVII Legends and Leaders Celebration in Phoenix on February 10: one on building great business partnerships and another on what's being done to team up to fight the fentanyl crisis.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 between 9:30am-3:30pm Pacific , SME Strategy and our Chief Client Officer & Senior Facilitator, Jenna Sedmak, are offering Complimentary In-Person Virtual "Strategy & Leadership Diagnostics" consultations at our KWENCH office site in Victoria, BC.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
New research from McKinsey finds they have four strategies in common. Business management Business and society Digital transformation Digital Article
Clarity Consultants
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Many organizations still rely on the same approaches when designing eLearning courses as they did years – if not decades – ago. While some view this as a pathway for creating timeless experiences, not updating modules to align with shifting learner expectations negatively impacts engagement.
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Streaming real-time intent is a homerun for marketing and sales’ account-based marketing (ABM) strategies. With real-time buyer insights, you can be first-in-line to provide solutions and lead better, hyper-personalized conversations.
CaseInterview.com
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
When I started my career, I thought the right decision could always be made through logic. If I had the right data and applied rigorous logic to the decision-making process, I would always come up with the right answer.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Learning doesn’t have to be formal, structured, or scheduled to be effective. Continuous learning Collaboration and teams Developing employees Digital Article
Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Joe Glover of ‘The Marketing Meetup’ wrote about simplifying strategy this morning on LinkedIn. His post got me to thinking about some of the steps that small businesses/challenger brands and others that don’t have huge brand equity or money can use to market themselves effectively.
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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.
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
When we think about altering a policy, a setting or even the outfit we usually wear, it’s easy to imagine that everyone is going to notice. In fact, almost no one will. That’s because no one cares about the noise in our head (or the actions we take) nearly as much as we do.
Leadership Vision Consulting
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
In this episode, we share a conversation about team composition, positive team culture, and steps leaders can take to implement positive team culture on their teams.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
How to use tools like ChatGPT to craft communications that will land with all the different audiences you’re trying to reach. AI and machine learning Technology and analytics Business communication Corporate communications Digital Article
Peter Stark
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Ten Steps to Create a Win-Win with Customers Last week, I found myself one of the last two people at the airport baggage turnstile. The turnstile was going around and around but, unfortunately, my luggage was not on it.
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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.
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Ben Zander is bringing the Boston Philharmonic and Beethoven to New York in a few weeks. I’m excited to seem them in person, but it’s also streaming live. I hope you’re able to come.
Alan Weiss
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
When a client’s objectives are completely “internal” ask the question “Why?” ” to find out the business improvement (“external”). Example: The client says, “We want to improve communication among our teams.”
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
A culture of trust and belonging doesn’t just happen. Here’s how you make one. Leadership and managing people Leadership Management Managing employees Managing people Employee performance management Motivating people Managing yourself Digital Article
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