Sat.Mar 26, 2022 - Fri.Apr 01, 2022

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False Zero-Sum Games that are Holding Your Consulting Firm Back

David A Fields

Your consulting firm participates in zero-sum games, where one party’s win necessitates the other’s loss. However, often that zero-sum perspective is false. Win-win outcomes are possible and will propel your consulting firm’s progress. For many people in many situations, “winning” too often seems to require that the other side loses. In fact, you probably observe … Continued.

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How To Grow & Sell Your Consulting Business Using Systems (Without Working 24/7) with Shannon Susko: Podcast #231

Consulting Success

Shannon Susko‘s book, Metronomics, explains what systems your company needs to grow. Balancing strategy, execution, cash, cultural, cohesive, human, and leadership is very important. Learn how to unite these systems into one regimen that works for you and your team. Join Michael Zipursky as he talks to Shannon Susko about growing and selling your business.

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Culture Starts at the Top

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

This past week validated that regardless of what you say you want your company culture to be, what it actually IS is dependent upon you, the leader. Through the various virtual presentations and in-person strategy and group coaching sessions I facilitated this week, each client’s culture and personality came through loud and clear. […]. The post Culture Starts at the Top appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.

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Women in Business

CaseInterview.com

Over a decade before I had three daughters, I was intrigued by women and how they’re perceived in the business world. My first encounter with this subject came from one of my sociology classes at Stanford, which focused on status hierarchy dynamics. The class didn’t just cover theories regarding how people of differing gender, racial, and educational backgrounds were perceived.

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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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Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take

Johanna Rothman

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. Joanie asked the various leaders these questions for every project in progress: When did you start this project? Are you still working on this project? If so, how long do you think this project will take?

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Why Every Employee Should Become an Entrepreneur

Rick Conlow

Could you be an entrepreneur? I have come across tons of people who are tired of the way companies and their bosses have treated them. I say, “Don’t put up with it!” It is time all employees-YOU- become an entrepreneur. The people I have talked to are concerned about and fed up with: Toxic workplaces. No choice in the workplace setting (hybrid, office, remote).

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How to Motivate

CaseInterview.com

Everyone starts their career as an individual contributor. You’re hired to do “work.” As you progress in your career, your role shifts toward leading and managing others who do the work. A key skill many new leaders struggle with is how to motivate their direct reports and the peers they work with regularly. I think this idea of motivating others is a bit of a misnomer (a word or phrase that doesn’t adequately describe the situation at hand).

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How To Be A Better Speaker And Move Your Audience Like Oscar Winners Will Smith, Kevin Costner, Sian Heder, And Troy Kotsur

Henry DeVries

Former Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking, Darren LaCroix, tells us who got it right and why.

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Blockchain: Bitcoin, Bored Apes, and Beyond

Tom Spencer

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. Removing the financial intermediary, i.e. the bank, can increase convenience, efficiency, and security. Direct peer-to-peer transactions can be settled instantly compared with interbank transfers that traditionally take several days.

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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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308: Sumit Gupta—How Can You Change The Lies And Tall Tales Handcuffing You Today?

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how to discover what really matters to you. At times, my podcast, On the Brink with Andi Simon , brings me guests whom I would never have had the opportunity to meet otherwise. Sumit Gupta is one such person. As you listen to his story, you too are going to say, “Wow.” What an interesting journey he has had. How has he been able to succeed, rethink himself and his career, focus on new directions, and succeed again?

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Align Your Board & Increase Your Chances of Strategy Implementation

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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5 Characteristics Trusted Advisors Exhibit To Attract High-Paying Clients

Henry DeVries

Author and financial planner DeeDee Baze shares the best ways to take care of your high-paying clients.

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The Future Face of the Consulting Industry

Tom Spencer

Whilst COVID has been a universal force of devastation, bringing both the greatest number deaths and economic declines seen in decades, it has also been a force of transformation. For all the destruction, there has been an equal and opposite force of construction as people have found ways to adapt to the ‘new normal’. This shift has principally seen interactions transition from physical to virtual space in order to overcome the barriers of self-isolation.

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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 deep processes can improve your performance

Asamby Consulting

(At some point all companies face the need to standardize their tasks). Deep Processes. When do you need to standardize processes? As your company scales, it is important to take the knowledge and best practices out of the existing team and turn it into an asset that new hires can use for training and improve their effectiveness. Typically, when the tasks outgrow the time available to the entrepreneur and the initial “core” team, a company starts looking into standardizing and capturing their wa

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Reinventing Ourselves

Chad Barr

Prior to building my Internet company, I ran a successful software development firm for nearly 30 years. Our prime focus was the development of software solutions known as Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP for distribution companies in the US as well as financial software solutions for nursing homes. Several of our nursing home clients approached us and shared their interest in having us develop the software to handle the drug interaction for their residents.

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Attract High-Paying Clients With A Proprietary Problem-Solving Process

Henry DeVries

Financial coach Brittany Anderson shares what she has learned is important to high-net-worth clients, and what we can do to help them meet their needs.

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Your Network is Your Net Worth

Tom Spencer

If you choose to pursue an MBA, you will surely learn a lot. One of the most consistent lessons that you will learn from the first to the last day of your MBA is the power of networking. From classmates to professors, guest lecturers, alumni, and LinkedIn connections – your duty is to increase and utilize this network. If you are in a city such as New York or Washington DC, networking is part of the culture.

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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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Management Development Tips with a DEI Lens w/Martine Kalaw Ep#164

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Effective leadership is communication. Great leaders recognize they are part of a team and want to inspire followers to be their best, but it's not easy. In fact, sometimes, it's incredibly challenging. From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. It can be exhausting. But being an influential communicator is not something you are born with or not.

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How Teams Are Retaining Employees Right Now

Harvard Business

In the face of the Great Resignation, companies must invest in building strong relationships — or risk losing their best people.

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EX = CX: How to create a thriving gigCX model

1 to 1

Gig customer experience (gigCX) workers—independent contractors, freelancers, and other temporary workers who provide customer support and other related services—are a natural fit in the contact center space. Individuals who are looking for a remote work environment with flexible hours are increasingly joining customer care, back office, growth services, data annotation, and content moderation teams.

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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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Lessons Learned Running a Public Company & Foundation w/Evan Sohn, CEO of Recruiter.com Ep#163

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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Test of Blog Feed and Email

Johanna Rothman

If this post works, I'll send a longer post with the too-sad, too-long story of broken feeds and missing emails. But this post needs to work first. Thanks for your patience. The post Test of Blog Feed and Email appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Design Your Organization to Withstand Future Disasters

Harvard Business

The threats we face — to life, business continuity, property, and reputation — will not end as our masks come off.

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When You’re in Over Your Head

Martinka Consulting

We were in Antigua on our Rotary project in the schools although this year there were no students given there’s a ban on field trips in the Bellevue School District. So, we adults are doing a lot of the work the kids usually did. I quickly realized I was in over my head when attaching RJ45 connectors to ethernet cables. I haven’t done it in over seven years, when I wired access points around my house.

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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.