David A Fields

APRIL 5, 2022

Your consulting firm will periodically face a conundrum: should you look for more clients who want what your firm provides, or should you pivot your firm to provide what clients seem to want? Because you are analytical or creative or just like pretty colors, you have created a heat map of problems that prospects have … Continued. The post The Conundrum Facing Every Consulting Firm, Including Yours appeared first on David A.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 8, 2022

Do you want to build a lifestyle business? Consulting businesses can be the BEST type of lifestyle business. At Consulting Success®, we believe that your business should be in alignment with what success looks like to YOU. The last thing you want is to wake up one day and realize your business is a monster: Is Consulting The Best Lifestyle Business?

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 8, 2022

Are you ready to find your superpower? Even though you've taken personality tests and can easily list your strengths, you may still be unclear about what you do that makes you unique and intensely valuable to the people you want to serve. You might even know how your approach to consulting or coaching differs from others, but you can't isolate that point of differentiation or what drives it.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

I initially started out my career in management consulting, exited to an internal strategy team in industry, and pivoted back to consulting. This two part article series will provide valuable perspective for those who are considering internal strategy teams as their next career option as I unveil my personal thoughts and experiences. In this article, Part 1, I will describe my experience of working in an internal strategy team and some of the main projects and activities I undertook.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 4, 2022

Managing a team and maintaining – or even upgrading – their performance is a big, time consuming job, however experienced you are. Supervision sessions, coaching, advice, support all take up big chunks of your time – time away from your ‘own’ work. So the question is, how can you maximise the positive impact you have on individuals and your team as a whole?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. It looked just like the serial lifecycle in the image on the left. (That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). I said, “You can't use ‘sprints.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with nearly 800 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. It is also the oldest of the major social media networks, being launched in May 2003, nine months before Facebook. LinkedIn is a crucial tool for finding and posting jobs. Around 45 million people use the platform to search for jobs each week, and 4 people are hired every minute.

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On the Brink

APRIL 5, 2022

It's almost here! The 2nd annual Rethinking and Accelerating Diversity and Women’s Leadership in Business Forum, sponsored by the Women Business Collaborative and Rethinking Women. Please join us May 11th from 11:00am-2:30pm ET and bring along others who will love the conversation. These are amazing trailblazers who are transforming the place of women in business so we all can thrive, here in the US and around the world.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 4, 2022

Diversity and inclusion are two things that are becoming important in today’s business world. Reaching these goals often means changing things for the better. Michael Zipursky talks to Michael Bach, the head of CCDI Consulting, to find out more. Michael dives into the waters of consulting services in the areas of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 7, 2022

By: Kathryn Gorges. Women In Consulting became a 501(c)(3) charitable organization late in 2020, as we announced at that time. But what does that mean for us? TL;DR : This means we serve the larger community of independent consultants with education, networking, and other programs. And our members help make that happen while also getting greater access and other benefits of belonging and contributing to the organization.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

Your manager is arguably one of the most important people you will engage with during a summer internship. Your manager may be assigning deliverables, connecting you with colleagues, and answering your questions. Regardless of what company or industry you work in, you will most likely have one-on-one meetings with your manager. The cadence of which could be once a week, multiple days a week, or even every day.

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On the Brink

APRIL 7, 2022

For the past 24 months, we have been operating in a virtual environment for the most part. We have all had experiences trying to work this way, good, bad or indifferent. A recent NY Times article, " A Two-Year 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work " talks about some of the issues associated with this strange new environment. We are still sorting out the impact of a hybrid workplace.

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On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 4, 2022

Hear how to build a culture that values men and women. T here are times when you are fortunate to meet exceptional women. Kim Graham Lee is one wonderful woman who is moving in a very important direction — how to build allyship for men and women. Kim is the CEO of Integrating Women Leaders (IWL) which is joining with Women Business Collaborative , of which I am a member, to conduct the first nationally-focused study to measure the practice of allyship with women in corporate America today.

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PM Alliance

APRIL 8, 2022

The final weeks of an ERP implementation can introduce a lot of stress for project teams and stakeholders. One recurring challenge our project management consultants hear from organizations seeking to improve their project planning and execution strategy is that the list of last-minute activities seems to snowball, leaving too many tasks to complete in a very short amount of time.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2022

It promises to bring new levels of social connectedness, mobility, and collaboration to a world of virtual work.

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The Source

APRIL 8, 2022

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that didn’t seem to be the case for consultants in the depths of the COVID pandemic. In late 2020, one year on from its first outbreak in Wuhan, clients were less positive than before about what it’s like to work with consulting firms: Just 65% spoke positively about a range of attributes that we ask about.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 4, 2022

Technology gets old. While we know that intellectually, we might not know it as it pertains to us. Here's a story about how technology changes one day at a time and everything is okay—until it's not. (Don't want the long sad story? Go to Here's What You Missed.). A Short History of My Site. I started my site back in 1995. I hand-crafted the HTML, possibly in PageMill or whatever we used for our sites back then.

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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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Consultants' Consultant

APRIL 8, 2022

Consultants Consultant: Great research from the University of Reading on the effect of meeting-free days on. The post Meeting-free days appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2022

Understanding why you’re in the room is more important than being the smartest one in it.

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Alan Weiss

APRIL 7, 2022

Creating the correct expectations saves a lot of grief farther down the road. Sometimes people approach me for coaching telling me they want to make a million dollars their first year in business, or they want to close a deal in very client meeting, or they want to major publisher to pick up their first book in the next 90 days. I’m all for aggressive initiatives, but also for pragmatism.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 6, 2022

I’ve been watching on Facebook the daily posted scores of my friends who play “Wordle” and I must admit I was curious as to what this craze was all about. But I’ve got my own pickleball craze, so I let the hankering pass only to discover that Laurel has been secretly admiring those who post quick solutions to those once daily puzzles.

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Epicflow

APRIL 6, 2022

How can aerospace and defense organizations respond to present-day uncertainty and manage constant change? One of the solutions is the application of emerging technologies that allow A&D organizations to dramatically transform the way they work and deliver value to their customers. What technologies do A&D companies leverage to adapt to the disruptions of the modern changing world?

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The Management Centre

APRIL 5, 2022

Let’s talk about scope creep. One of biggest (and most infuriating) issues affecting project managers. Imagine: you firmed up the scope of your project months ago, you’re knee deep in delivery, everything should come in on time and to budget… and then a key stakeholder suggests an additional output. “Wouldn’t it be great if we did a showcase event?” “How about a fundraising dinner?

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Kraft Kennedy

APRIL 4, 2022

The Kraft Kennedy Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems team advises organizations to review their environment now to address necessary upgrades well in advance of the October 15, 2022 support expiration date for vSphere 6.7. We are seeing delayed timelines for hardware procurement, and recommend firms take action now to avoid the vulnerabilities of running unsupported VMware versions as well as the negative business impact resulting from the inability to complete Client Security Audits.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

APRIL 4, 2022

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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