Sat.Sep 12, 2020 - Fri.Sep 18, 2020

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Leadership in World 2.0 is Going to Look a Lot Like World 1.0

Markovitz Consulting

Bah humbug! I’m tired of hearing about how much business and leadership is going to change in the “World 2.0.” It’s not. The fundamental principles of good business transcend the effects of COVID-19, the shift to work from home, new technologies, and all the other changes we’re living with now. To be sure, if you own cruise ships, an airline, or a live concert venue, you’ll have to deal with serious changes to your business models for a while.

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The Consultant's Role: How to Position Yourself for Maximum Influence

Consulting Matters

Are you thinking about becoming a consultant but not sure what the consultant's role entails? Are you currently a consultant and tired of shadow boxing negative stereotypes about this role and want to be seen as an essential strategic partner to executives? Then you're going to love this tutorial video because it will reveal to what the true purpose is for the consultant's role and how to fulfill your potential in this role.

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The Psychology Of Success For Consultants & Entrepreneurs

Consulting Success

Do you feel like you can achieve a lot more in your life and business…but you’re not sure what that next step is? Or that you have some sort of mental roadblock preventing you from becoming the person you want to become? As a consultant or entrepreneur, it’s straightforward to focus on improving your marketing, The Psychology Of Success For Consultants & Entrepreneurs is a post from: Consulting Success.

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The Perfect Dashboard for Consulting Firms

David A Fields

You can create the perfect dashboard for your consulting firm by combining two ideas we’ve explored previously. Specifically, when you apply the 3 Rocks evaluation approach to your consulting firm’s Vital Signs, you’ll have yourself a nifty, simple, action-oriented tool that instantly tells you where you stand and prioritizes your consulting firm’s efforts.

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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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What are Behavioral Interviews?

Management Consulted

Behavioral interviews are a key component to the case interview. Yet, if you’re just starting your interview prep journey, you might be even asking, “What are behavioral interviews?” Or, “How do you pass a behavioral interview?” Or maybe still, you’re… Read Article. The post What are Behavioral Interviews? appeared first on Management Consulted.

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$100M Business Growth Strategies For Consultants With Cameron Herold: Podcast #154

Consulting Success

Business growth is a common goal for the majority of business owners. Cameron Herold, the Founder of COO Alliance, joins Michael Zipursky on today’s episode to share business growth strategies that he has been personally using. Sharing the story of how he built up 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and ultimately moved on to start on his own, Cameron highlights some of. $100M Business Growth Strategies For Consultants With Cameron Herold: Podcast #154 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Consulting’s diversity paradox

The Source

Personally, I like to start these blogs with some sort of pop culture analogy that neatly illustrates the topic at hand—or, failing that, a humorous industry anecdote. But there are some topics and some moments where that sort of levity feels out of place. At the time of writing, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a worldwide reckoning on issues of structural racism, and organisations of all stripes are being forced to consider how they can contribute to the global effort to dismantle e

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Virtual Case Interview

Management Consulted

Doing a virtual case interview has become likely in the post Covid-19 world. They actually weren’t uncommon before, for remote candidates, but now a lot of firms are doing case interviews virtually. There are marked differences to doing a case… Read Article. The post Virtual Case Interview appeared first on Management Consulted.

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Creating a Dashboard

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 4 minutes. At the most basic level a consulting engagement (or any strategic project) will typically contain three-phases: Structure and propose a strategy. Implement and execute on the strategy. Track the performance of the strategy. Phase 1 and 2 are where the consultants spend most of their time, but phase 3 is also an essential part of the project to measure the success of a strategy and adjust any tactical recommendations where needed.

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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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Emotional Resilience

CaseInterview.com

As I’m writing this email from just outside Seattle, there’s a ton of smoke from the forest fires that are all over the western United States. It looks like the end of the world. Between the pandemic and terrible air quality, it’s not safe to be indoors with others and now it’s not safe to be outdoors either. For many of my friends, neighbors, and acquaintances, the cumulative impact of these stressors has taken its toll.

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Friday Fusion: September 18, 2020

Tsavo Neal

What is the easiest way to build a personal brand? There is no “easy” way to build a personal brand. Claiming that you’re an expert in something is 1% of the equation. The other 99% can only be backed up my consistent work that is helpful to others. So, the “easiest” way to build a personal brand is to find…. Work that you love to do An audience that you love to serve.

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Managers: See Your Cycle Time to Reduce Your Team’s Lead Time

Johanna Rothman

Do you have any idea how long it takes you to make decisions? Or, to clear impediments? Or to report to your team or your boss about your action items? Each of those items is a deliverable. That means we might be able to measure the cycle time for each of these deliverables. Normally, we measure cycle time for teams. (See Measure Cycle Time, Not Velocity for more details.).

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How Consulting Travel Might Change after COVID-19

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 3 minutes. By no means do I pretend to see the future, but I think I can take an educated stab at how consulting life may change once the COVID crisis is over. Many prospective consulting candidates are probably keen to know what to expect. I want to highlight that I speak not only from my own personal consulting experience, but also from that of my friends across many different firms.

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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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First Woman CEO of an Investment Bank

CaseInterview.com

Thursday, Citigroup announced that they are appointing Jane Fraser to be CEO. She will be the first woman CEO of a major Wall Street investment bank. Jane was actually the very first person I ever worked with at McKinsey. She was my first manager on my first engagement during my first week at the firm. I remember her being wicked smart and incredibly kind with a high EQ.

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How To Put Buyers First During Pandemic From LinkedIn Research

Henry DeVries

Are you a good seller or a bad seller? Are you being naughty or nice? The good and nice thing to do is to put buyers first.

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Weaponizing Volatility

Alan Weiss

People who have communities, formal or informal, have been far more successful during the pandemic restrictions. By “successful” I don’t mean sustaining themselves, or minimizing losses, I mean growing their businesses. When you have people who routinely depend upon you and your connections—and their connections to others through you—there is really minimal disruption.

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Will You Adapt Or Die? How Cultural Anthropology Can Transform Your Business Strategy

Simon Associates

More and more, business leaders are beginning to understand the value of corporate anthropologists , and more importantly, how they can help people at all levels of a company better "see, feel and think" about their business with fresh eyes. As a corporate anthropologist myself , I preach that the importance of anthropology lies in its ability to help people pause, step out and look at the way they have always done things in new ways, and then make these new ways happen.

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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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233: JD Gershbein—How Is LinkedIn Your New World For Building Networks?

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to leverage the power of LinkedIn! I met JD Gershbein through Peter Winick’s Thought Leadership Leverage roundtables which he so graciously invited me to join. JD is a LinkedIn expert and really understands how to help you leverage the world of social media. Our conversation focuses on the approaches you can take to create your own personal brand.

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Which Is More Important – the Customer or the Employee?

Effective Managers

Who should matter more to your organization – the customer or the employee? It is a never-ending question that has troubled many managers and leaders for a long time. However, the question becomes much easier to answer once you ask yourself, which is more integral to helping your organization reach its mission and achieve its vision. Most leaders end up favoring the customers because, ultimately, they are the ones that bring the money in.

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[PURCHASED] Ultimate Management Consulting Program

Management Consulting Prep

Please login (menu above) to access this product! Join me and 20,000+ other candidates around the world on the journey to not only conquer the consulting recruitment process but also to challenge your own limits! Visit our store. The post [PURCHASED] Ultimate Management Consulting Program appeared first on MConsultingPrep.

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Should firms worry about clients’ wandering eyes?

The Source

Above all else, consultants prize their client relationships. Many would go as far as saying that without them, they’re nothing. So it will perhaps come as alarming news that we’re seeing a decline in loyalty among consulting firms’ clients. Every year we ask senior executives, all of whom use consulting services, to tell us which firm would be their first choice across the 13 different services we ask about if all existing constraints disappeared.

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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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Yes, You Should Be Keeping Score

Makarios Consulting

We have never yet come across a leadership team that said, “We don’t want good information. We don’t need to track metrics to succeed as a business.” But we have worked with many leadership teams that acknowledged, “We don’t know what metrics to track to get meaningful insights so that we can make strategic, timely business decisions.” These leadership teams lack an effective business performance scorecard.

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How Our Workshop for Accountable Change Can Improve Your Organization’s Performance

Effective Managers

Consider the following situation. You have a strategy in place. It came to be from a long and inclusive process that involved exhaustive consultation with both your stakeholders and employees. The process has been successful: All the Key Performance Indicators have been set and assigned. The Scorecard came into place, and the regular reporting has commenced and is now ongoing.

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One Zoom At a Time

Chad Barr

I was chatting with a client earlier and reflecting on the many zoom calls we are involved in daily. Since she did not turn on the video right away I joked and asked if she is still working with her pajamas on. She turned on the video and shared with me that during one of her recent business zoom call meetings she realized she was still wearing her robe while her video was on!

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Hugh’s Words of Wisdom Wednesday 09.16.2020: Let It Go

Claris Consulting

Hello, everyone, welcome to Hugh's Words of Wisdom Wednesday. I want to give you these words. Let it go. This morning I came in to do the Words of Wisdom for Wednesday, and my camera wasn't working, so I had to regroup. I'm recording all of the Words of Wisdom on my iPhone with different light and headset. I could get kind of cranky and upset that my equipment didn't work.

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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.