Brimstone Consulting

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With the shift to remote work, employee experience and culture are crucial to attracting and retaining talent. In February, the COVID-19 pandemic launched the world’s largest remote work experiment , with 42% of the workforce working at home. Seven months later, companies including Microsoft, Zillow, REI, Facebook, Nationwide, Square, Mastercard, and Nielsen have announced that they will allow their employees to work remotely indefinitely.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes. Everyone was new once. For many of you, that first day is still to come. In this blog post, we will focus on three things that young analysts need to be aware of. Some mistakes are avoidable if you can get your head around them. Others you will probably notice yourself doing anyway. Hopefully you can avoid a few of these pitfalls in your first few weeks!

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The Management Centre

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Leading in the not-for-profit sector can be tough. Most of us hold these leaders to higher ethical standards than those in the commercial sector. We expect them to be principled. We need them to do the right thing and encourage trust. In short, we need these leaders to model the values that their organisations promote. Thankfully, the majority of people in these positions absolutely want to lead this way.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Even if you have the best product available, it doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have an equivalent marketing strategy in place. The CEO of GrowthHit, Jim Huffman, takes this time to share his expertise and experience when it comes to growth marketing. Learn how you can look at marketing from the mindset perspective and. The Consultant’s Guide to Growth Marketing with Jim Huffman #159 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Time. It’s a critical factor in your consulting firm’s success. However, how you think about time may hide the bigger, more important picture. What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word “time”? I mean after you picture Morris Day and The Time’s unforgettable slide in the video for Jungle Love? More … Continued. The post How to Build Your Consulting Firm Faster by Rethinking Your Relationship to Time appeared first on David A.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes. In the previous article, we explored the question ‘ what is digital currency? ’ In this article, we will examine the value of digital currency. Why would anyone want to use one? What benefits do they bring? Digital currency derives its value primarily from confidence. If people have faith that the currency will be accepted by others, they will be willing to use it.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Do you ever feel like you’re running around in circles in your consulting business? Like everything you’re doing doesn’t really connect — and you aren’t making the progress you want towards your goal? It can feel like you’re turning around like the Tasmanian Devil (remember those cartoons back in the day?) Believe it or not, Strategy VS Tactics: Answer These Questions To Grow Your Consulting Business is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Is it hard for you to keep a positive mindset in the midst of failure or struggles? Do you ever get down and just want to quit? Have you felt that the the same old positive thinking approaches don’t work anymore? A Renewed Positive Mindset Affirmation. Tohei Sensei from Chicago visited our Aikido dojo in St. Paul. He watched our children practice new moves in their class along with the other students.

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Henry DeVries

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“We need to approach our video meetings with the same level of care and intentionality as we do our in-person meetings,” says Patrick McGowan, who works with people who want to level up their video presence. “How we show up defines us and defines our personal brand.”.

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The Management Centre

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc, we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature we share some of those challenges, and our advice for dealing with them.

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Tsavo Neal

OCTOBER 23, 2020

When do you know your website needs more content? When you’re unhappy with the amount of traffic you’re getting. More (good) content = more traffic. With every piece of content you produce, you’re creating a little “mini-you” that will go out and market your business. When your customers are asking you the same questions over and over. If you’re getting the same question from your customers, write your “final” answer to that question.

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The Source

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Regular readers of our content will have already seen us make the case that sustainability will be one of the defining stories in the next chapter of the professional services industry. Across virtually every industry and every region, businesses are waking up to the fact the environmental, social, and political changes currently looming on our collective horizons represent a genuine threat to their long-term health.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With so many challenges facing our families, schools, communities, businesses, healthcare and governmental institutions, the responsibilities on us as parents, professionals, and leaders have grown dramatically. And there’s no end in sight. As leaders, how we address our challenges speaks volumes about us as people and as leaders. The post Do You Like the Person and Leader You’ve Turned Out to Be?

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic shook higher education to its core. The second half 2019-2020 school year was well underway when the world changed. Many institutions had to send students home with little notice, transitioning to an only-online format with essentially no warning. However, the situation, while still fluid, isn’t the same as it was then. It’s less about navigating an emergency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need.

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On the Brink Podcast

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Hear why anthropology should be part of your business plan! It was an honor to speak with Simon Roberts on our On the Brink with Andi Simon podcast. Simon is a highly regarded business anthropologist with his firm Stripe Partners , serving clients across the globe with effective, innovative ethnographic and anthropological research. I am also a business (or corporate) anthropologist , and as we talked about both of our journeys, we realized how important it is for organizations of all sizes to u

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 23, 2020

ORGANIZATION DESIGN WEBINAR This online session in the 10th in the CHSI speaker series. Wednesday December 2 , 10:00 am – 11:30 am Eastern. Do you have the right organization design? How do you know if it is right or not? Because the fundamentals of organizational design are not well understood, structural inefficiencies can become imbedded in your organization.

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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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The Source

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I have a guilty secret: I’ve got a lot of toilet paper in my loft. I mean, like, a lot. In my defence, the first consignment of rolls turned up before lockdown in the UK, and even before that brief pre-lockdown period when toilet paper became more valuable than gold. Also, since then I have repeatedly offered to sell it to those in need at what I consider to be the very reasonable price of £20 per roll.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 21, 2020

If you’ve been following my writing and content publishing over the years you probably have noticed my use of lists. I have to admit that I love numeric or bulleted lists. So, in the spirit of such lists, here are the 10 reasons why I recommend you create these lists and why they rock: They make your items and content stand out. They are easy to follow and simplify the steps need taking.

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Kai Davis

OCTOBER 20, 2020

People are afraid to follow-up. That sucks for people because, as Steli Efti pointed out in my conversation with him that’s included with Raise Your Clients From The Dead! , ‘follow-up is where fortunes are made.’. Steli Efti and I sat down and talked through effective follow-up systems, principles, and best practices, drawing on Steli’s extensive experience as a sales leader and Close.io founder.

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As the Owner or CEO, you have a huge responsibility towards your organization. However, you can’t do everything alone. If the systems and processes you have in place are leaving something to be desired, you might not see where the problem is. In my own experience as a client, I was always pleasantly surprised by the objective feedback I received. That objective viewpoint, when paired with broad industry experience, can be very enlightening and helpful.

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Alan Weiss

OCTOBER 18, 2020

I’ve been called upon, as I’m sure many of you have, to mediate disagreements within client organizations. Sometimes people holding reasonable and logical opposing views can’t sort things out themselves because of the passions involved, and often the organization’s leadership can’t because of cultural and political baggage.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A conversation with Harvard Business School’s Raj Choudhury about why more companies are building all- or mostly remote workforces.

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Kai Davis

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily bring your old client relationships back to life? That’s the exact skill you can learn inside Raise Your Clients From The Dead! a small — yet powerful — book of Lead Generation Necromancy. I don’t speak too often about this book because, well, it’s just too heckin’ powerful. But because we’re officially in the Halloween Season, you have a short-lived chance to pick up a copy today.

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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Living in a COVID world has created a lot of new changes. Some changes have been implemented and then changed again within hours or days. One employee who stated he had “change fatigue” told his manager, “I am willing to make this one change as long as you guarantee me that there will be no additional changes.” In this particular case, the manager made a huge mistake by telling this employee, “To the best of my knowledge, there will be no additional changes.

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