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Why Having More Meetings Is Not The Answer

Markovitz Consulting

One of the participants in my Conclusion Trap class was grappling with a persistent problem at her company: their website regularly crashed after upgrades. She believed that one of the primary drivers of the problem was poor communication between two teams. The solution was obvious—schedule additional meetings between those two teams. Along with spending more money on technology, adding meetings to everyone’s already overburdened schedule is an example of conclusion jumping at its finest.

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The Magic of Practice

The Fearless Marketer

Imagine that a talented gymnast hires a new coach. In their first session, the coach shows the gymnast the step-by-step moves for a gymnastic routine. With a little time and practice, the gymnast gets the fundamentals of the routine down. Then the coach says, “OK, great, you’re ready for the Olympics!”. No, I don’t think so. Gymnasts practice their routines 6 hours a day, more than 30 hours a week.

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How Outsiders Become Game Changers

Harvard Business

Research identifies four factors behind their success.

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How To Sell Consulting Services (Like Lemonade)

Consulting Success

Wondering how to sell consulting services? Last Friday evening, I got a call from one of our neighbors inviting my daughter to join them to sell lemonade. My daughters are six years old and three years old, and they were thrilled to get this invitation. So, the entire evening, they were looking forward to waking. How To Sell Consulting Services (Like Lemonade) is a post from: Consulting Success.

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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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Step 0: The Prerequisite for Your Consulting Firm to Win More Business

David A Fields

Your hard work on business development and some good luck resulted in big opportunities for your seed optimization consulting firm: potential engagements with Worldwide Walnuts, Paramus Pecan Co, and NoNutz.com all at the same time. But, somehow none of those opportunities blossom into closed projects. Why? You may have a “Step 0” problem. If you’ve … Continued.

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How to Get a Business that Looks and Feels like You [Behind-the-Scenes Tutorial with Betsy & Jen]

Consulting Matters

Want an online image that reflects the depth and power of what you do and establishes you as a premium brand? I sure do! Last week I relaunched my website, which reflects the biggest changes to my business (even bigger than when I left Disney to start my own consulting business. In this week's tutorial video, my partner Jen Hamilton and I take you behind the scenes of this total website and brand makeover and how Jen and I together got to a place of owning our unique niche in the business mentor

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How to Build Predictable Systems & Process for Your Consulting Business with David Allara: Podcast #197

Consulting Success

Building predictable systems for your consulting business is a must. When you follow the right systems, you’ll be blown away by the results. Michael Zipursky’s guest today is David Allara, the Managing Director of konnectus. David talks with Michael about how the first step should always be listening. You need to listen to your customers, How to Build Predictable Systems & Process for Your Consulting Business with David Allara: Podcast #197 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results

Rick Conlow

Servant leaders’ behaviors and traits have been known for centuries but remain ambiguous. However, the term Servant Leader was first introduced only in 1970, by Robert Greenleaf’s essay, “The Servant as a Leader.” It has risen in popularity, but it is obscure because many deride it for being soft and out of touch in this “dog eat dog” world of competition, and fast paced business reality.

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Leadership Tip 12: Focus on Effectiveness, Not Efficiency

Johanna Rothman

Many of us focus on how efficient we can be. Many of our organizations want to maximize our output for every minute and hour of work. However, if we focus on effectiveness first, we create better outcomes for everyone. We don't waste time working on things that don't matter. An Example of Moving from Efficiency to Effectiveness. Danielle, a director, saw the effects of this problem.

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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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Updated Corporate Training Is Absolutely Essential as Your Employees Return to the Office

Clarity Consultants

As the pandemic wanes, many employees are beginning to return to offices all across the country. This is marking a period of transition. Leaving a remote work arrangement and coming back to the office means dealing with distractions that aren’t present at home. Plus, concerns about a pandemic resurgence still weigh on the minds of many. At times, the stress.

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Poets and Quants in Management Consulting

Tom Spencer

A constantly reoccurring conversation I have heard discussed about the management consulting industry is if the preference for talent is in favor of “ poets” (those that come from more of a humanities background) or “ quants” (those that come from more of a technical or hard sciences background). Of course, the best position to be in is to have a hybrid background of both.

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Elevate Partners with SME Strategy, on a Mission to Serve Those Suffering from Addiction & Mental Health Problems

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Elevate is a private, not for profit agency based out of the American state of Wisconsin, working in the areas of substance abuse and mental health. The organization uses a comprehensive approach in an effort to prevent substance abuse and mental health problems, as well as helping both adults and children in recovery.

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Safe Space #10 – pre-holiday mountain, post-holiday blues

The Management Centre

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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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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Consultant marketing : The Brutal Truth About Trust

Jerry Fletcher

Ya got it or you don’t. I was having coffee with a former client. He asked a favor that involved me contacting a person who had spoken for an organization I handle marketing for the slides from the presentation. I asked why he didn’t contact the speaker direct. His answer surprised me. “I trust you and I figure he does as well,” he said, “So he will be happy to do a favor if you ask.

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6 Tips To Increase Your Website Conversion Rates

Tom Spencer

If you are running a tech startup, you probably spend most of your time focusing on your product to make it lean, easy to use, and able to solve people’s problems. However, if you want to be successful you need to reach a lot of people, and so it is important to increase your conversion rates. There are a lot of things you should focus on when designing your website for higher conversion rates.

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277: Johanna Zeilstra—Let's All Build Companies That Make Gender Fair

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how gender equity is really, finally, happening. What an exciting podcast with Johanna Zeilstra. She has had a remarkable career as a business strategist and leader in start-ups and global corporations. Our talk was about her current passion: helping move the needle on gender equity in organizations through her platform, Gender Fair. Take a look at its website to understand the full scope of the movement which she is pushing forward.

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Q&A with Aaron Morehouse

Brimstone Consulting

Q&A with Aaron Morehouse. Aaron Morehouse and those ‘aha’ moments, strengthening networks, and building strategies that everyone is aligned with. What are your areas of expertise? . Leadership Development; Experiential Education; Relationship Building; Social & Environmental Impact . What makes Brimstone unique? . People’s passion for the work, the empathy for others, the deep bench of expertise, and the authenticity that the team shows up with. .

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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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Updated Corporate Training Is Absolutely Essential as Your Employees Return to the Office

Clarity Consultants

As the pandemic wanes, many employees are beginning to return to offices all across the country. This is marking a period of transition. Leaving a remote work arrangement and coming back to the office means dealing with distractions that aren’t present at home. Plus, concerns about a pandemic resurgence still weigh on the minds of many. At times, the stress of returning and decreased familiarity with traditional workplaces are causing engagement to suffer.

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Plus, Eight Magical Treasures

Kai Davis

“Give a person an email template, help them for a day. Teach a person how to do email outreach, help them for their entire life.” — Kaifucious. My favorite part about Raise Clients From The Dead ( [link] ) is how laser-focused and effective it is. Customers report that the email templates help them restart conversations with past clients and bring those client relationships back to life.

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Improv people

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Here’s a great link to entertainers talking about Improvisation. Here’s a great link to. The post Improv people appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Q&A with Jeremy McNamara

Brimstone Consulting

Q&A with Jeremy McNamara. Jeremy McNamara discusses building teams, building relationships, and things (including old cars). What are your areas of expertise? Leadership, getting things done, achieving organizational clarity, and setting out a vision. What led you to Brimstone? . I was a participant in a Michigan University Business School Leadership program 22 years ago.

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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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Top 5 Business Consulting Podcasts

ConsultX

Our list of the Top 5 Business Consulting Podcasts: Everything Business Consulting Consulting Success The McKinsey Podcast Craft of Consulting The Strategy Skills Podcast: Management Consulting. Everything Business Consulting A Weekly Podcast for Business Consultants and people looking to enter the Business Consulting Profession. We cover everything and anything about business and business consulting with all types of businesses in our exciting interviews and internal discussion.

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AI in Business: Everything Leaders Need to Know w/Dan Faggella Ep#113

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Dan Faggella is the Head of Research and CEO of Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research, as well as a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

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The 3 Phases of Making a Major Life Change

Harvard Business

Thinking about your new life isn’t enough. Here’s how to follow through on your plans — even if you’re going back to old routines.

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Q&A with Bill Supple

Brimstone Consulting

Q&A with Bill Supple. Bill Supple discusses building Mammut in North America, and the importance of valuing people and experiences. What are your areas of expertise? Sector-wise I’ve been working in the outdoor equipment (hike, climb, ski) industry my whole professional career – roughly 40 years. I was fortunate to land in leadership positions early on and today consider Leadership, Leadership Development, Strategy, Strategy to Execution, Organizational Development, and Team Buil

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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.