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Consulting Agreement: Template, Best Practices, & Examples

Consulting Success

What is a consulting agreement, when should you use one, and how do you create them? A consulting agreement is a document between you and your client that formalizes the project you’ve outlined in your consulting proposal. The agreement commits both you and your client to the project: the responsibilities, deliverables, payment schedule, and more.

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How To Sell Your Expertise, Win Deals, & Become A Rainmaker With Robert Chen: Podcast #254

Consulting Success

Tap into more significant opportunities and watch yourself grow professionally. Join your host Michael Zipursky as he talks with Robert Chen about selling your expertise, winning deals, and becoming a rainmaker. Rainmaking skills contribute a lot in an organization because it drives huge revenue for a company through communication strategies in bringing on new clients.

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Are You Destined to Repeat Leadership Mistakes?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It's likely to happen. Those words you were determined never to say come out of your mouth. And immediately, you think to yourself. I really do sound like my parents! Is that good or bad? It only makes sense that the leader you become in the workplace is influenced to some extent by your experiences and those you admire. Not surprisingly, evidence suggests that personality traits and virtues also significantly influence behavior, especially when you have the freedom to make choices.

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This is Better than Perfection

CaseInterview.com

Many of my students strive for perfection. In theory, there’s nothing wrong with this PURSUIT. However, in practice, many people associate validity and self worth with the attainment of perfection. If you achieve perfection, you are a good, worthy human being. If you “fail” to achieve perfection, you are somehow “less than” those you perceive to have achieved perfection.

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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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Four Classroom Teaching Differentiators in a World of TikTok and Other Digital Innovations

Steve Shu Consulting

A strategic issue that many professors face within the university is how to teach in a world when one is both competing for attention in the Digital Age and also trying to justify value-add over other methods that people can use to educate themselves. For example, people can read books. They can watch videos on TikTok or YouTube. They can take classes remotely or even do self-study using online platforms.

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4 Ways to Get More Value from Your Project Task Duration Data

PM Alliance

Your project team may already utilize task duration estimates to plan timelines and coordinate resources. Gathering estimates from stakeholders and leveraging it to craft schedules that are realistic and comprehensive is a key component in project success. But if those are your only uses for task duration data , then you’re missing out on some important insights.

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100 Small Business Ideas To Get You Started

Business Consulting Agency

These days, it is easier than ever to start a small business. Working from home, just about anybody can operate a small business with an Internet connection and computer. People of all ages desire to be entrepreneurs. Sometimes you know something, have a specific skill, are passionate about an area, and other reasons. It can be a desire to make more money.

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5 Signs of Bad Resource Allocation and How to Improve It with a Resource Management Solution

Epicflow

It may happen that despite your efforts, your projects don’t bring the desired outcomes and sometimes even fail. The reasons vary, but improper resource allocation is one of the most common causes. In this article, we’re presenting the most significant indicators of bad resource allocation and suggesting tips on how to improve it with a resource management solution.

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Alexa, Should My Company Invest in Voice Technology?

Harvard Business

Researchers looked at how three different kinds of offerings helped — or hurt — stock prices.

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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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[Join In!] 2nd International Consulting Haiku Contest

David A Fields

I’m on vacationMy readers deserve some funLet’s play with haiku! (Author’s admission:Most of these haiku are fromtwo thousand nineteen) (For those who don’t know…Haiku: three lines; syllables:five, seven then five.) One more week gone, andthe proposal isn’t signedShould I call again? Hooray, they said yes!Let’s review the task timeline.Uh oh.

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How to Help Managers Combat a Lack of Resources

LSA Global

People Managers Are Overwhelmed Being a people manager has always been a tough job. The challenges caused by COVID have made it even more challenging to lead and manage people. In fact, recent research of over 800 managers by our management experts found that insufficient staffing resources, constant change, and inefficient processes are the top three inhibitors to manager productivity ?

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Getting the hull shape right

Seth Godin Blog

It’s tempting to have your book copyedited and typeset before you have your editor read it. And it feels right to spend time on the company’s website before you have your first customer… But if you don’t have the foundational elements right, the fit and finish don’t matter at all. This summer I designed and built a skin-on-frame canoe.

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Emotions Aren’t the Enemy of Good Decision-Making

Harvard Business

Identify how you feel about the decision — and how you want to feel when it’s made.

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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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It’s Time to Clarify Work Boundaries and “Quiet Quitting”

Johanna Rothman

The news is full of this idea of “quiet quitting.” That's where people do just what the job requires and not more. Well, I have a contrarian view: Why do managers think it's okay to ask people to do more? What is it about “more” that managers want? In Practical Ways to Lead and Serve Others, I explained a myth called “I Need to Know People Are Invested.” That's the myth where everyone leaves at 5 or 6, after they've done a full day's worth of work.

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Ways to Build an Aligned Customer Experience

LSA Global

Why the Customer Experience Matters As consumers, we have all felt how important the customer experience can be to how we feel about a business, their brand, and our loyalty as a customer. As employees, we know that an aligned customer experience can make work easier and more fulfilling, Yet, as leaders, sometimes we miss the mark in terms of customer centricity.

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Cultural distress (and consumerism)

Seth Godin Blog

For decades, marketers (and politicians) have been working to amplify cultural distress, a hack on our emotions. Not the tragic emotional distress of being unable to care for your kids, find a place to live or deal with trauma, but the invented cultural distress of modern industrialized societies. This is the easily created shame of not having a new suit to wear to the garden party, or having to use an old model smartphone instead of the new one.

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Why You Should Warn Customers When You’re Running Low on Stock

Harvard Business

Research suggests that transparency up front will improve customer satisfaction in the long run.

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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 Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). This game evaluates the candidate’s ability to solve problems efficiently and think critically. The game uses algorithms to evaluate the candidate’s decisions made during the game and the implied reasoning pattern the candidate used to arrive at those decisions.

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How You Can Find More Ease in Your Product Development (Day 5)

Johanna Rothman

I started this series by sharing my status of too much WIP (Work in Progress). My WIP was making me slightly crazed and I explained how I worked to reduce it. In case you're wondering, here's my current status: 3 presentations still on the list (I completed 2, including the one I recorded). The online workshop videos are complete. When Teachable settles down, I can start to upload.

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But first, we need to talk about it

Seth Godin Blog

People don’t talk about end-of-life suffering or the cost of healthcare in the last year of life, so it never gets better. Instead, we pretend it isn’t an issue and the problem persists. We don’t talk about the ongoing and escalating costs (human and financial) of our changing climate, so the systems that are making it worse continue, unimpeded.

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The Costs of Being a Perfectionist Manager

Harvard Business

Managing your high expectations can actually improve your team’s performance.

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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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Toxic Workplaces Cause Even More Employees to Disengage and Quit

Rick Conlow

Toxic workplaces raise their ugly heads again and again at employees. As a result, they disengage and resign. While companies say they are for employee engagement, as a recession looms, they speak out of both sides of their mouth. According to Gallup, employee engagement continues its downward trend with only 32% of employees engaged in the US. Interestingly, remote employees have a 37% engagement rate.

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Happy Labor Day

Chad Barr

Knowing I would be out of town working with a client today, I took the opportunity to prepare my newsletter a couple days in advance. Monday, September 5, is Labor Day in America, and there’s really nothing comparable to it in my native Israel. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on the morning of September 5, 1882, where a crowd of spectators filled the sidewalks of lower Manhattan near city hall and along Broadway.

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Fake-aceuticals

Seth Godin Blog

Of course, we’ve always had snake oil salesmen. We’ve always had patent medicines, odd electric probes and copper bracelets. That’s partly because placebos work, and partly because when someone isn’t feeling well, it’s tempting to seek relief and belief. In the last fifty years, peer-reviewed and tested medicine has gotten dramatically more effective at the same time that these regulated medicines have spent a fortune on ads and marketing.

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Research: Public Opinion Is Not Enough to Hold Companies Accountable

Harvard Business

Customers and other stakeholders won’t always push companies to act in accordance with human rights law.

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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.