Sat.Sep 11, 2021 - Fri.Sep 17, 2021

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How To Attract Clients With A Connected Culture

Henry DeVries

Heading back to the office after working remotely? Take the opportunity to redefine your culture and create a sense of community, trust, and inclusivity in the workplace. A highly engaged culture attracts high-paying clients.

Culture 71
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Why Your Prospect Pipeline Dries Up

Successful Independent Consulting

The most successful independent consultants find their own work by building a pipeline of leads through their own outreach efforts. Using a customer relationship management tool (CRM) can make this so much easier. That's why PICA partners with Mimiran, the CRM for solopreneurs that was built by a solopreneur, Reuben Swartz. His latest article is packed with practical advice, so we're sharing it with you.

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Dealing with Marketing Struggles

The Fearless Marketer

What is the biggest struggle you have with marketing your professional services? Is it your marketing message, creating your services/programs, clearly communicating your value, getting in front of prospective clients, the selling process, or something else? We all have different challenges, but I believe that the technical challenges of marketing are far outweighed by the internal challenges that often stop us cold.

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What You Need to Spend to Grow Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

Building a consulting firm requires a wide range of investments. Let’s walk through some of categories of spending required for you to grow your firm. What other investments/spends have helped you to grow your consulting firm? The post What You Need to Spend to Grow Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A. Fields Consulting Group.

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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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Statement Of Work Template (Consulting): Use This For Managing Projects

Consulting Success

Do you need a statement of work template for your consulting business? You just won a consulting project. Now, the real work begins. Either your client requested a statement of work and wants to review it before the project starts — or you want to create one to make managing the project easier. In this. Statement Of Work Template (Consulting): Use This For Managing Projects is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Legendary Leadership Lessons from Ten Great Leaders

Rick Conlow

What legendary leadership lessons can be learned from the past? No leader is born great or a hero. Research shows that the greatest in us comes from education, experience, and the lessons learned from others. Here are ten great servant leaders and the legendary leadership lessons they have given us. Are you willing to receive and apply them? Foundational Values: Legendary Leadership Lessons 1-3.

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10 Lessons Learned from 50+ Conversations with Consultants

Tom Spencer

If someone is willing to give you 20 minutes of their time, what is the most value you can extract from that conversation? I networked my way to an interview. I cold messaged over 200 people on LinkedIn and had 50+ conversations with current consultants. The conversations not only helped me get referrals but also taught me about the consulting industry in a way that only those who are in it can describe.

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Consulting with Love (Instead of Fear) with Renée Smith: Podcast #203

Consulting Success

What do you think is the most important job of a leader? It’s to eliminate fear from the workplace and fill it with love. Michael Zipursky’s guest today is Renée Smith, the Founder and CEO at A Human Workplace. Renée talks with Michael about how we are at our best as human beings when cared. Consulting with Love (Instead of Fear) with Renée Smith: Podcast #203 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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How Can Blended Learning Help Make Your Training More Effective?

Clarity Consultants

Many companies rely heavily on in-person, instructor-led training. While they can be effective to a degree, many learners don’t find the approach particularly engaging. Maintaining focus during long lectures isn’t easy for most, causing them to miss key pieces of information during the presentations. Thankfully, there is an alternative. With blended learning, instructor-led presentations are coupled with independent, digital coursework.

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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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283: Tony Martignetti—Are You Ready To Live A Life Of Inspired Purpose?

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how you can become a transformational leader! In this week's podcast, I bring you Tony Martignetti: leadership coach, change agent and entrepreneur. In our conversation, Tony shares with us his approach to helping people and their organizations change. You can guess why we connected from the get-go. As a fellow culture change expert , I also help people and organizations change, either in the midst of a crisis or in order to avoid one.

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Consulting in the medical device sector: A lesson on the importance of sociological know-how

Tom Spencer

Expertise in case studies is considered a given not just among the veterans of business life, but even for newly aspiring consultants, who wish to break into the consultancy industry. Market-sizing, competitor-analysis, pricing-strategy and legal risk-assessment are all components to a standard case study which we tend to give primacy to, yet in many cases, we need to diverge from our usual framework considerably.

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Just one Moment: Mindfulness for Busy Leaders

Brimstone Consulting

Mindfulness offers an opportunity for us to spend less time in unproductive states of mind and helps us to return to the present moment, just as it is, without judgment. Returning to the present moment is a kind of remembering; remembering where we are, what our aspirations, intentions, and commitments are, and remembering how we want to be in a relationship with others.

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Clarify the Difference Between Outputs, Outcomes, and Benefits

Johanna Rothman

When I sent my newsletter last month, Modern Management: Want Valuable Outcomes? Create Overarching Goals , several readers asked me questions. Why did I differentiate between outputs, outcomes, and benefits? I decided that was worth a blog post. Here's how I define and use the terms. Outputs. By themselves, a customer can't use an output. We might use them as a team.

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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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AI Can Help Address Inequity — If Companies Earn Users’ Trust

Harvard Business

Airbnb built an algorithm to close the earnings gap between Black and white hosts. But Black hosts were significantly less likely to use it.

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Tips for Case Prepping Alone

Tom Spencer

As fall recruiting season is on the horizon, it’s inevitably a busy time for many students looking to recruit into consulting. On top of regular life commitments, you also must spend time on preparing applications, practicing for interviews, and partaking in the interviews themselves. With such a busy schedule, it can be tough to find a partner to practice cases with.

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Community Voice: Forethought not Afterthought

UPD Consulting

UPD’s panel “Turning Stakeholders into Champions” spotlights cutting edge family and community engagement strategies that go beyond online surveys. We are at a new point in history where “stakeholders” in school districts can no longer only be engaged AFTER decisions are made. The practice of “engagement” needs to change from refreshments and auditoriums to authentically connect community voice with district actions.

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Minimal Risk and Maximum Gain

Chad Barr

It was April, 2019, when I first stepped onto the pickleball court and it was love at first swing. I quickly learned the etiquette and rules and to never, ever, refer to it as a racquet. It is a paddle, they barked, a racquet has strings! I completely fell in love with the game and have devoted much time and focus to enjoy it while working with great players to improve my skills and elevate my game.

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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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How You Can Use Financial Intelligence to Unlock Business Growth w/Henry Daas Ep#118

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Henry Daas is an Entrepreneurial Coach, Personal Finance Coach, and the author of FQ: Financial Intelligence , a 432 page book that explores every aspect of personal finance. He also offers a 20-week course where he teaches everything he knows about how to manage and grow your money, including u ncovering the mindset that may be holding you back, c reating a life-long financial plan, b ecoming skilled at managing your assets, and more.

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Consultant Marketing Speaking Pay to Play

Jerry Fletcher

3 days ago I responded to a call for speakers passed along by a friend. It was for a Summit here in Portland and is a live event. I sent a one sheet on my Trust speech and a link to my speaking demo not expecting a response since I was mor interested in their events in major cities across the USA. My e-mail lit up with a notation of interest and by the end of the day I was in communication with the event planner in charge of assuring speakers would not be doing commercials.

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Should You Localize Your Product for the Chinese Market?

Harvard Business

Researchers found that the strategy can lead brands to lose what made them appealing in the first place (as well as a whole lot of time and money).

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Respecting their time

Seth Godin Blog

When we go around the room and have each person introduce themselves, we’re burning time, attention and trust. 40 people: 45 minutes, gone. Worse—the person who goes first spends 43 minutes daydreaming, and the person who goes last spends 44 minutes worrying about what to say. When we read our powerpoint slides to the audience, we’re sabotaging our message and wasting the attention that we’ve been granted.

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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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Client Story: POABC Partners with SME Strategy

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

The Prosthetic and Orthotics Association of British Columbia (POABC) has been the provincial association for British Columbia since 1974. The group is made up of those working with patients directly, medical facility owners and those who fabricate the equipment.

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A School Lunch is Better Than No Lunch

Martinka Consulting

I was a cafeteria monitor for at least my senior year in high school (maybe my junior year also). It wasn’t a bad job. We made sure kids didn’t act like kids, food wasn’t thrown, the lines moved along, and the finished trays didn’t back up on the conveyor back to the kitchen. The benefit, monitors got as much food as we wanted, and we had a great team of cooks who served 2,700 kids a day (it was a closed campus) and growing boys need a lot of food.

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Who Is Driving the Great Resignation?

Harvard Business

An analysis of 9 million global employee records sheds light on key trends around which employees are most likely to quit.

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We are not astronomers

Seth Godin Blog

Unlike most of the sciences, astronomy is always done at a distance. You can see the stars, but you can’t do anything about them. Sometimes the media would like us to believe that we’re all astronomers, simply passive witnesses in a world out of our control. But the world is never out of our influence. Remembrance, connection, possibility, invention, empathy, insight, correction, care and justice are all up to us.

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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.