Sat.Jan 18, 2020 - Fri.Jan 24, 2020

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Reasons for Today's Stress Pandemic (and Why High-Achieving Women Suffer the Most)

Consulting Matters

It’s a jungle out there Disorder and confusion everywhere No one seems to care, well I do Hey, who’s in charge here…” Randy Newman, It’s a Jungle Out There. As a consultant, I have exposure to the inner workings of companies of all sizes and in all industries. Over the past few years, I have noticed an increasing trend of excess stress experienced by employees at all levels, particularly at the executive level.

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CxOs? They’re the easy ones.

The Source

Our recent report, Missing the point , found surprising evidence about CxOs in relation to thought leadership. It found them to be harder-working, more patient, and easier to please than their subordinates, challenging the notion that they’re all tearing around with their hair on fire, with about three nanoseconds to read whatever you’d like to put in front of them.

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The Meeting Maximizer Form for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

Imagine this: You meet with the analyst and subcontractors working on a consulting project, and after a couple of precious hours pass, there are only powdered sugar donut holes left in the box and you’ve somehow achieved a disappointing fraction of what you intended. That’s too easy to imagine, because similar scenarios with different snacks … Continued.

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Boutique vs Large Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

University is a difficult journey for anyone, regardless of major. Oftentimes, it takes a lot of navigating to truly understand what you want from your experience and where you want to end up. For me, I was fortunate to study at a Canadian business school and interacted with numerous small and large companies from a variety of industries. Since graduation, I have had the pleasure of working for both a boutique and a large strategy consulting firm and wanted to share my insights on the difference

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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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The lunch dilemma

Rod Burkert

In case you missed the last post: Is it easy for someone like me to find someone like you? When I say “someone like me,” I mean a potential client. When I say “someone like you,” I mean a practitioner who says they can do what you can do. Being easier to find will make you easier to hire. Make being easier to find one of your top goals. On to this post: The problem with lunches is fewer and fewer people want to have them because more and more people want to protect their time.

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How to Treat Your Business as the Ultimate Job Promotion

Consulting Matters

The best thing about leaping from corporate into running your own business is having control over your career, time and earning potential. But for a lot of us - we don't fully take advantage of this power we risked so much to find. We work a ton of hours. We get caught up in the chase for gig after gig. We don't take time off (or as much time as we want) because of the fear of not knowing where the next client is going to come from.

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Create & Manage the Project’s Bounds, Part 2 (Constraints and Floats)

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I wrote about the origins of drivers, constraints, and floats. I needed them when we only could release the project once to the customers. You saw the questions that help people choose the project driver. What about the constraints and floats? I think of constraints as bounding the project inside the driver, and floats as degrees of freedom.

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Think Strategically - Ask Tough Questions

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

One of the questions I’m initially asked by a new strategic planning client is, “How will we know what we’re supposed to focus on with our new plan?” Well, the easy answer is, “You’ll focus on what you need to focus on,” but the more appropriate answer is, “You’ll focus on what your answers to some critical questions tell you to focus on.” Now you may be thinking, “Those sound like a couple of non-answers and they don’t sound strategic at all.”.

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What to Say Once You Get a Meeting

The Fearless Marketer

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections? The first thing to remember that this is not a selling meeting, or an opportunity to make a pitch.

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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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L&D Challenges That Microlearning Can Tackle

Clarity Consultants

But, by using the microlearning approach, many of these challenges can be addressed quickly, creating a better learning experience for everyone involved. If you are wondering how microlearning tackles those issues, here’s what you need to know. The post L&D Challenges That Microlearning Can Tackle appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Create & Manage the Project’s Bounds, Part 3 (Constraints and Floats for Infrequent Delivery)

Johanna Rothman

I wrote about how to pick a driver in Part 1. In Part 2 , I wrote about how you might finesse some of the constraints and floats if you can release frequently. What if you're like this organization, Acme? Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. However, they still have these problems: Their stories are too large to ship something every day or even every other day.

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The Unforced Error

CaseInterview.com

In tennis and baseball, they track a statistic known as an “unforced error.”. I’ve always found this concept intriguing. When a competitor does something exceptional and beats you, that’s a “forced” error. It’s when your opponent hits a nearly impossible cross-court ground stroke to win the set. It’s when you throw the batter your absolute best pitch and they hit a home run off it.

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170: Alicia Robb—Move Over, Men.Women Are Starting Businesses And Doing Exceptionally Well

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how women-owned businesses are kicking it! Today’s podcast is all about a topic that we here at SAMC are working on ourselves: how to help women create and grow their businesses. My conversation with Alicia Robb was wonderful. Alicia has spent ten years as a senior fellow at the Kaufman Foundation in St. Louis studying entrepreneurship and particularly women entrepreneurs.

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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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How Effective Are Your Inquiries?

Chad Barr

There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t get multiple inquiries through my social media channels. Some actually valid that are genuinely interested in our products and services while many others that I consider disingenuous. Here are a few examples of recent contacts and my serious or humorous responses: Social Media Contact: “Hi Chad! We’ve been connected for some time.

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Getting Buyer’s Journey Mapping Back On Track

Prudent Pedal

Well, we’ve reached the point where Marketing has ruined a good thing once again. We did it to social media, buyer personas, podcasting, marketing automation, Christmas, Easter, and Memorial Day. What have we ruined this time? We’ve managed to ruin the critical, powerful mapping of the buyer’s journey. Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized.

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Priority: Make Customers Feel Special

Martinka Consulting

It’s common knowledge cable and satellite TV companies have been losing customers to cord cutting, i.e., people using only online streaming services for their in-house viewing entertainment. So it has to have been a balancing act for these firms on how to keep customers, advertisers, and content providers happy. For years it seemed customers were at the bottom of the list with an example being watching recorded shows on a DVR.

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169: Elisa Spain—How To Create A Post-Career Life With Meaning

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to re-think your life looking forward! I have known Elisa Spain for a long time. Having presented to a number of her Vistage groups , I'm deeply familiar with her particularly effective approach to helping people and their organizations change. As she has watched her members craft the next stages in their careers—selling their businesses, retiring from leadership positions, coping with transitions—she has changed too, shifting her focus to help them see their lives through a fresh lens

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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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How to do efficiently Project Management?

Consulthon

Hi, I have recently joined the platform and I have a good challenge to test it. I would like to source high-quality advice and save time browsing online and reading researches. I am part of a mid-.

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How Consulting Firms Win - Part 1 of a 2-Part Series by The Hinge Institute

Management and IT Consulting

Ever wish winning in the Consulting arena was as easy as referencing a guidebook? One that walked you step-by-step through the self-assessment and tactical plays critical to achieving Consulting greatness? Hear more about a new, actionable playbook for transformational business initiatives, How Consulting firms Win – The Definitive Playbook, and join the webinar to learn how to use it.

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[Vlog] Dealing with Conflict: 7 Tips for Building a Collaborative Team

Peter Stark

I’m advising an executive right now, who has this challenge. She has two employees reporting to her that hate each other’s guts. Now, I may be a little extreme with that expression but I’m pretty confident at telling you this. They don’t like each other, they don’t trust each other, and if given the choice, they don’t want to work with each other.

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Human Resources & Learning & Development – Are You Providing Training Programs for your Senior Leaders?

Gina Abudi

We don’t often consider the need for training, or professional development, opportunities for senior leaders. We do, however, consider what training is needed for nearly all other employees in the organization and may even have training programs in place for various groups/levels of employees. But senior leaders in the organization need learning opportunities also; [.].

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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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How does a Digital Operating model look for a retail bank?

Consulthon

I am after any examples or links or ideas on how digital banks are different in way of operating to traditional ones?

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Welcome to 2020- We are excited to share with you.

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

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The Link Between Well-Being, the Brain, and Strengths (podcast)

Leadership Vision Consulting

Today we're talking about well-being as it relates to the intellectual, emotional, influential, and unconscious life of the brain. We also talk about how understanding that can really help us maximize our Strengths and ultimately, our levels of personal and professional well-being. The post The Link Between Well-Being, the Brain, and Strengths (podcast) appeared first on Leadership Vision.

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And it bends toward justice

Seth Godin Blog

Superman could bend steel with his bare hands. Along the way, we’ve been sold on the idea that difficult tasks ought to be left to heroes, often from somewhere far away or from long ago. That it’s up to them, whoever ‘them’ is. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted Theodore Parker: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”.

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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.