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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

Let's be real - you don't want to grow your OWN consulting or coaching business for the money. If you were in it for the money, you'd stay in corporate. Your goal is to have a career and business that supports your total life priorities and allows you to use your gifts and passions to make a difference in the world. So, let's make this happen for you!

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Micro-disruption in consulting?

The Source

The disruption promised in consulting has been a long time coming. Perhaps we’re thinking about it in the wrong way. Clayton Christensen et al.’s 2013 article in the Harvard Business Review, Consulting on the cusp of disruption, argued that, “the same forces that disrupted so many businesses, from steel to publishing, are starting to reshape the world of consulting”.

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Refining Your Marketing Message

The Fearless Marketer

Your marketing message is one of the most important tools in your marketing toolkit. But in my experience of working with clients on their messages for years, most self-employed professionals don’t have effective messages. What is an effective message? One that generates interest and response. Period. You may not realize it, but marketing messages are used everywhere.

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The Person Who Can Make Your Consulting Firm Shine

David A Fields

There’s a particular type of individual who can help your consulting firm stand out from the pack and garner the praise you richly deserve. Like Clark Kent or Diana Prince, this superhero for your consulting firm disguises their ability to lift you to new heights beneath their modest appearance. This analogy is particularly apt since … Continued.

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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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How the Founders of Consulting Success Use Values to Supercharge Consulting Businesses: Podcast #200

Consulting Success

Most business owners tend not to see the importance of establishing values. However, business values are the compass that ensures your organization aligns with whatever vision you have for the company. Joining Michael Zipursky in this special episode is his cousin and co-founder of Consulting Success, Sam Zipursky. Together, they share the values behind Consulting.

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Breaking Into ZS Associates from a Non-Target School as an International Student

Management Consulted

Mrinal received offers from ZS Associates and Uber. He ended up accepting ZS Associates’ offer (in the Princeton, NJ office). How did he navigate the consulting recruiting process as an international student and decide which firm to go with? This… Read Article. The post Breaking Into ZS Associates from a Non-Target School as an International Student appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Consultant Profile Series: Dane Sequeira

Tom Spencer

Dane Sequeira was an advanced professional degree consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. In 2019 he earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, studying under Dr. Brian Mann. In the field of nonlinear dynamics, Dane studied ocean energy harvesting buoys. He worked at the Los Angeles office of BCG, performing due diligence with private equity clients and assisting management teams with firm acquisitions.

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The Only Way Forward…

CaseInterview.com

The only way forward is to move forward. It isn’t to dwell on the past (but it is useful to learn from the past). It isn’t to be paralyzed in the present. The only way forward is to make progress toward your goal. It doesn’t matter if you hit an obstacle. It doesn’t matter if it’s taking longer than you expected. It doesn’t even matter if you screwed up royally.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

I started this series with observations that my clients appear to confuse strategy and tactics. They think agile approaches are tactics and agile tools are part of their strategy. That's why they want to Buy an agile approach. And that's why they want to Customize and then standardize on tools. This post is about this question: why do organizations want to standardize every team's board?

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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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How are organizations deciding where and how people work? CHROs share their strategies.

Brimstone Consulting

When it comes to the way forward, there is no “right” path. Eighteen months ago, the pandemic forced us to work differently. With no time for planning, we were forced to innovate, to be agile , and be more human. While challenging, we have, individually and collectively, accomplished the previously unimaginable. As the COVID-19 crisis enveloped the globe, Eric J.

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The changing face of digital transformation

The Source

Every now and then, we’ll find that one of our blogs takes on a life of its own—reaching a far wider audience than we’d anticipated, and prompting discussions and commentary for months, if not years, after its publication. One of the best examples of this is a piece we published at the tail-end of 2018, exploring the changing face of the digital transformation market ; by any metric, it was one of the most popular blogs we’ve ever featured on this site.

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Data-driven?

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: This post asks if your company is smart enough to be data-driven. It’s from. The post Data-driven? appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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What is Change Management and Why Is It Important?

Clarity Consultants

Pretty much every organization in existence has to undergo significant change at some point. Knowing how to best manage these changes and transitions can be critical to your organizational structure and productivity. However, these changes aren’t always the easiest to adapt to. Individuals in your organization who are impacted by the transition may feel overwhelmed or intimidated.

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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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The Unfinished Symphony of Life

Chad Barr

Yesterday evening, Laurel and I drove out to Sandusky, Ohio, where she was officiating at a memorial service for a beloved community doctor who had spent his entire career at the local hospital. He was adored and praised by his colleagues and patients alike, a humble family man, who, at the height of his career, at 68 years old, was now looking ahead to December to begin winding down his medical practice and begin to really live and enjoy life to its fullest.

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A Lack of Clarity Gets a Lack of Results

Makarios Consulting

Picture in your mind’s eye: you are sitting in a team meeting. One of your team members is not hitting the mark. As the leader, you need to tell him … but you waffle. You don’t want to hurt his feelings, so you use circumlocutions. You don’t want tempers to rise, so you water down the truth about the impact his poor performance is having. If you have played out this scenario in real life, we can guarantee that in a few weeks or months, nothing will have changed except your level of frustra

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Values

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Values defined: Values are what’s important to you. They are criteria for decision-making (if. The post Values appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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The inevitable decline of fully open platforms

Seth Godin Blog

The spammers have found Substack. There’s a long history of useful tools on the internet attracting selfish con men. Substack is a platform for bloggers who want paying subscribers. They’ve done the technical work and quiet lobbying to get past the promo folder and the spam filters, and as a result, a blog on Substack is going to reach more people and come with a veneer of respectability.

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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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Do the Frogs Really Boil?

Martinka Consulting

There’s an old story, about how if you put a frog in boiling water, it will hop out but if you put it in cool water, slowly raise the temperature it will stay in the water and eventually die. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I get the concept because when my electric shaver blades get dull, I don’t notice it until they’re really dull. The change from day-to-day, week-to-week is so small it’s not noticeable.

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A Lack of Clarity Gets a Lack of Results

Makarios Consulting

Picture in your mind’s eye: you are sitting in a team meeting. One of your team members is not hitting the mark. As the leader, you need to tell him … but you waffle. You don’t want to hurt his feelings, so you use circumlocutions. You don’t want tempers to rise, so you water down the truth about the impact his poor performance is having. If you have played out this scenario in real life, we can guarantee that in a few weeks or months, nothing will have changed except your level of frustra

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Notes on Story

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Stories predate our culture. Story a trillion dollar USD industry They help develop kid’s. The post Notes on Story appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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The nesting bowls

Seth Godin Blog

Seven bowls might take up an entire cabinet. But if the designer slopes the sides of each bowl just so, they stack. The amount of space required to store them goes down by 80%. The hard part isn’t figuring out how to stack them. It’s realizing that stacking is an option.

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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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Rotary and Business Buy-Sell – Part One

Martinka Consulting

Recently I had a Rotary Global Grant approved for our ongoing work in Antigua. As I was writing the grant, I realized there are a lot of similarities between our project, the grant process, and our day-to-day work with clients buying and selling businesses. This newsletter will cover seven similarities of projects with business buyers and next month I do the same for business owners/sellers.

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We Often Overlook Opportunities to Negotiate

Harvard Business

Everyday encounters can prepare you for when the stakes are high.

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Speed Reading – a shopping list approach

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Find a book you like. Ask yourself Why read this book How much time. The post Speed Reading – a shopping list approach appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Cyber-realists

Seth Godin Blog

Soon after the invention of the wagon, someone was able to move logs around much more easily. And shortly after that, someone had a wagon run over their leg. Wagons were used to deliver food but they also were put to use hauling weapons around. The cyber-optimists believe that the wheel of technology turns towards progress, perfecting our life a bit more each day.

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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.