Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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Organization Design for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Kates Kesler

We facilitated a meeting in April 2020 for a team of ten people. In the past such a meeting would typically have the eight co-located members sitting together in a conference room and the other two on video. The pandemic meant that for this meeting everyone was joining from home. The two people who were usually remote made an interesting observation at the end of the session.

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Revisiting The Law of Raspberry Jam

Kai Davis

Again and again, I’m drawn back to Gerald Weinberg’s The Law of Raspberry Jam. The more you spread it, the thinner it is. As indie consultants & freelancers, the law of raspberry jam is one that we violate at our peril. Think about the essential marketing items that you need in place to market your business, grow, and generate leads: A narrow, specific target market for your positioning.

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Find your purpose – reassess what matters most and regain your motivation

The Management Centre

The challenge: The world is a mess, or rather the world feels a lot messier than it did in 2019 – largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has been tough to deal with and yet deal with it still we must. It has been challenging in different ways. For some of us, working at home and staying at home so much has been oddly confusing, lonely and isolating.

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Implied vs. Explicit Expectations

CaseInterview.com

All relationships work more smoothly when expectations are clear and explicit. The opposite of an explicit expectation is an implied one. Let’s look at both personal and professional examples. When two people become a couple, one of the issues they’ll need to navigate is holidays. Whose family do we spend this holiday with versus another? Holidays have many implied expectations.

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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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Can a Public Company Ever Be Lean?

Markovitz Consulting

Can public US companies really embrace lean? Well sure, they can deploy lean tools here and there, but the whole socio-technical system that comprises lean? I don’t think so. Wall Street pressure for quarterly profits competes fiercely with lean principles, both inside and outside the company. Executives who take the long-term view and view employees as appreciating assets worthy of investment, rather than variable costs to be minimized, put their companies at risk of attack from outside “activi

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Leadership Consulting: How To Lead Your Clients As A Consultant With Melanie Parish: Podcast #144

Consulting Success

As an organization grows, so does the need for a whole army of leadership positions that need to be filled with capable individuals who can work with independence and initiative. Leadership consulting helps people develop their management and leadership skills and thrive in fast-paced environments. Award-winning coach, speaker, consultant, and author Melanie Parish has been.

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How to Clarify Your Ideal Consulting Client

Consulting Matters

Do you know who your ideal consulting client is? Some people think of an ideal consulting client as someone who would simply be willing to buy their products and services. Here's the thing: You can do decent work with a lot of different leaders. But you can do AMAZING transformative work with a select few who connect with you to the point that they don't just your products and services.

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Is Consulting More Than Giving Advice?

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 3 minutes. Every year strategy consulting firms and agencies that specialise in executive business management and the “maximising shareholder value” approach receive billions of dollars for their services (Management Consulting, 2020). Are consulting firms about more than just advising management? What else do consultants accomplish for a business?

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Tight training budget? Then focus on learning

The Management Centre

How to ensure people learn, develop and feel invested in – no matter how small your training budget is. The CIPD have released their latest learning report [1] , and whilst not entirely surprising, it highlights that charities and non-profit organisations have very tight training budgets. These will continue to shrink. The Covid-19 pandemic has meant shifting resource and budgets, and it follows tradition that L&D budgets are amongst the first to go.

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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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What Will Life Look Like for Students in the Fall?

Clarity Consultants

The COVID-19 pandemic led many college campuses to shutter their doors unexpectedly in the spring of 2020. In the majority of cases, the institutions shifted their courses online, allowing students to continue working toward their education without having to set foot on campus. The post What Will Life Look Like for Students in the Fall? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Overcoming Adversity: How to be Resilient

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Going through difficult times is a fact of human life. But the ability to be resilient through the adversity is an admirable and useful quality for anyone to possess. Being resilient in the face of adversity allows you to bounce back from the difficult times, it allows you to make courageous choices, connect with others and develop your creativity. In this blog, I’ll breakdown what exactly resilience is and how you can become more resilient in your daily life and in business!

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Beware of Scams for Writing and Otherwise

Johanna Rothman

While a pandemic might bring out the best and the worst of us, scams persist. I received an email this morning from a so-called “self-publishing” company. They are quite happy to help me get my book to traditional publishers. They didn't say what it would cost, but they wanted the pdf of the interior and the cover. That's what you need to create a book and sell it online.

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Avoiding the parenting penalty

The Management Centre

Avoiding the parenting penalty – take a flexible approach to ensure working parents and carers can be at their best. Charity and non-profit managers know that supporting working parents and carers makes sense. The majority of people walking in the voluntary sector are women [1] and being a working parent or carer is on the rise too [2]. Therefore, a large portion of the people in your organisation are likely to need to balance work with family life and other responsibilities.

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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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Three Ideas for Marketing Outrageously

The Fearless Marketer

According to Jon Spoelstra, in his book, Marketing Outrageously, businesses need to embrace the concepts and practices of Marketing Outrageously. He should know. He practiced this as the general manager of several sports teams such as the Portland Trailblazers and the New Jersey Nets. He helped his teams not only increase their revenues, but to fill their stadiums with raving fans – even when their teams weren’t winning.

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How to Accelerate Your Goal Achievement

Rick Conlow

Who doesn’t want more goal achievement? Here is the first step, to be all you can be you must dream of being more. Once you do that goal setting principles can begin to work for you. This goal achievement training video will teach the secret of the 5 Laws of GoalPower and how to activate them in your life. However, Earl Nightingale once said, “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” Goal Achievement for You Means… Certainly, the clearer yo

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The Business Development Secrets Of An Industry Disruptor

Henry DeVries

Business development secret: everyone has the potential to be an industry leader.

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Why consulting firms are so interested in each other at the moment

The Source

In the course of the average Formula 1 race there are lots of little incidents: Cars get too close to each other and eventually come into contact, sending one or the other (and sometimes both) spinning off the track; someone approaches a corner too fast and ends up beached in gravel or with the front of their car crumpled by a wall of tyres. More often than not the affected drivers jump out of their cars and stomp off, apparently more upset to be out of the race than they are relieved to be aliv

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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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219: Danielle Grant—Authentic, Ethical, Caring And More Effective Leadership

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to be an effective transpersonal leader! In our podcast with Danielle Grant, co-author of the book " Leading Beyond the Ego " with John Knights and Greg Young, you will learn a great deal about transpersonal leadership. This new approach takes us beyond the theories of Daniel Goleman on Emotional Intelligence and the power of focus which all great leaders possess.

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Activity-Based Lead Generation

Kai Davis

Let’s end the week with a (great) reader question: What are some leading indicators to measure progress in habits that should generate leads? I have a lot of thoughts on this. First, this is similar to the concept of Activity-Based Selling (more here: [link] ). That is, you’re identifying the leading indicators that correlate with “doing the work to sell more things” and then tracking them overtime to make sure you’re taking the right actions.

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Real-World Case

CaseInterview.com

Here is a real-world situation. You’ve been hired by an industry association representing the 3,000 colleges located in the United States. Due to COVID-19, nearly all universities in the United States will be conducting classes via video conference at the start of the new academic school year, which begins in August 2020. A few months ago, the association sent out a survey to the college students attending their member universities.

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The Core 4

Brimstone Consulting

A practical framework to help you lead – and succeed. I am thrilled to announce the publication of our first book – The Core 4: Harness Four Core Drivers to Accelerate Your Organization. The Core 4 explores the foundational capabilities of any organization, from a small group to a global enterprise, and the four core drivers necessary to build high performing teams and organizations, deliver results, and accelerate growth, performance, and profitability.

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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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218: Melissa Davies—Aren't There Powerful Ways To Transform Your Organization?

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how change can keep your business moving forward! At times we are introduced to people by chance, only to find that they are amazing individuals whom we want to be part of our world. This was how I felt about Melissa Davies when we met, and why we wanted you to know more about her and the work she does to help others change. Founder of Wise Ways Consulting, a leadership development and executive coaching firm, Melissa helps clients become better leaders so they can build more productive and

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Is it time for retirement?

Chad Barr

A while back, I watched a presentation by Jim Collins, author of the book, Good to Great, during the time he was heading the Peter Drucker Institute. He shared a story that many may not know. Peter Drucker, who was one of the most remarkable thinkers, lived to the age of 95 and wrote during his lifetime, 40 brilliant books, most of which I have in my own library.

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Is Your Expertise “Essential”?

Do It! Marketing

You know it is! And I know it is. But do your clients know how essential your programs, services, consulting, coaching, and training are to their survival and success? And how recession-proof is your expert-based business? Is your content a must-have or a nice-to-have? Are your distribution methods subject to cancellation and postponement? Do you have a real strategy or just a bunch of tactics that work less and less well During this entire crisis, we only lost 1.6% of our annual rev

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

When organizations are looking to find cost savings, people costs are typically a significant portion of the budget and an attractive target for cost reduction, but beware! Reductions in staffing levels can destroy or erode organization capabilities or “muscle” that are at the heart of their competitive advantage and may have taken years to develop.

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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.