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5 Ways Playing Small is Sabotaging Your Consulting Success

Consulting Matters

"Playing small" is making choices that put a lid on your true potential. It's the part of you that wants to protect your comfort, security and validation in the short-term at the expense of what is possible in the long-term. These feelings are particularly acute for both new and seasoned consulting and coaching business owners which in comparison to other business owners, growing to the next level is personal because your business is based on you.

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5 Leadership Traits that You Must Cultivate

Tom Spencer

Leadership skills are an essential part of the consultant’s toolkit. More than just managing people, leadership is about communicating effectively in order to motivate people to achieve the desired outcome. Leadership is central to organizational performance, or as McKinsey & Company puts it: “Telling CEOs these days, that leadership drives performance is a bit like saying that oxygen is necessary to breathe.

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Should you be scared of…COMATCH?

The Source

Today’s clients are faced with a dizzying variety of options when it comes to buying professional services. While the industry is still dominated by a handful of big firms, they are no longer the default option they once were. This is the first in a series of blogs that explores some of the newer businesses and platforms seeking to turn the industry on its head—and whether your firm needs to worry about the new competition.?.

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The Greatest Referral Strategy In The World

Henry DeVries

Here’s a truism about referrals: if you don’t ask, you don’t get.

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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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The Great, One-Day Consulting Experiment

David A Fields

Note: At the end of this article, you’ll be requested to join an experiment. If you’re willing to join, simply post, “Yes.” In the comments section below the article. Have you ever finished a day or a week and thought to yourself, “Holy cow, I can’t believe how insanely productive that time was”? You busted … Continued. The post The Great, One-Day Consulting Experiment appeared first on David A.

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Living Your Business Values – Interview with Paul Zelizer of Awarepreneurs

The Fearless Marketer

Here’s our second monthly interview with a leading-edge business professional where I speak with someone smarter and wiser than me to figure out what being in business is all about. . This time I interview Paul Zelizer on expressing and living your values as a business owner. I first met Paul when he was managing the Wisdompreneurs Facebook group about 4 years ago.

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How to Avoid Bad Business Decisions: Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast , we're joined Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts LLC and author of Never Go With Your Gut : How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.

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Coronavirus: Who Gets a Hospital Bed?

CaseInterview.com

Background: By day, I write and teach my students on CaseInterview.com about how to have a successful career. By night, I volunteer with my county as an emergency worker, search & rescue team member, and emergency medical responder. Much of my training is in mass casualty incidents. Under normal circumstances, medical care in the United States is based on the principle of “do what’s best for the patient.

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Build Team Resilience Summary (Part 4)

Johanna Rothman

If you're like many of the teams I meet, you've sort of got a handle on things. You can release. Your product mostly works. And, then Something Happens. And, your team has trouble recovering. That's brittleness in the system. You can build resilience as a team. In this post, I'll summarize how your team can build resilience. Start by Working as a Team.

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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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7 eLearning Trends That Are Learner Centric

Clarity Consultants

By digging into the current eLearning trends, you can better understand what the future of workplace training looks like and how to implement emerging solutions that generate positive results. With that in mind, here are seven learner-centric eLearning trends that need to be on your radar. The post 7 eLearning Trends That Are Learner Centric appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Great Coaching: The Art and Science of Success

Rick Conlow

With great coaching you can become a great leader. Unfortunately, coaching is a lost skill. If you walk the halls of the corporate world, you won’t hear or see much of it going on for two reasons. Managers seem too doing reports or analysis. Managers are in too many meetings. When I talk to managers about coaching, the #1 thing they tell me is I don’t have time or they look at me like I am an alien.

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How much to charge for consulting

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Everyone wants to know how much to charge for their consulting services. How much. The post How much to charge for consulting appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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184:  Ivy Gordon—Providing A Powerful Voice To The Sexually Abused

On the Brink Podcast

Hear about the long-awaited healing power of telling your story. I met Ivy Gordon through my work as a speaker with Vistage International. But today’s podcast with her is less about her acumen as a business innovator or coach. Rather, she is on a mission to enable women to tell their stories about rape and abuse through her website, Unspoken Story. While she is a successful innovator and business leader, what she talks about here is the need to provide a voice for women who have been raped or as

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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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Driving Sustainable Growth at an Inflection Point

Brimstone Consulting

CASE STUDY. Revenue increased by 34 times. Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. During the engagement, the organization increased revenue by 34 times. After a decade of growing organic herbs and vegetables and raising farm animals, a family-run New England farm decided to pivot and produce high-end functi

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Invitation to the 2020 Strategic Planning Conference May 14+15th 2020

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

The Association for Strategic Planning will be hosting their annual conference in beautiful Whistler, British Columbia for 2020. Over the course of May 13th through 15th, including one pre-conference day and two full conference days, strategic planning executives, business owners, consultants and thought leaders will be coming together to share what they've learned.

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This Too Shall Pass

Chad Barr

As it turns out, Ohio, Cuyahoga county in particular, now has its first three cases of Covid-19. All the hand washing, and sleeve sneezing could not have prevented the inevitable from occurring right here. As fate would have it, our daughter and son in law have been notified that they, like in the hit show, Hamilton, were in the room where it happened.

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183:  Marcey Rader—How To Maximize Your Productivity Without Hurting Your Health

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to perform at your peak without making yourself sick! Marcey Rader changed her life and wants to help you do the same. During her 16 years in business, she always positioned herself as the go-to person to help staff become more efficient and productive. She ran 12 marathons, over 30 triathlons, and several endurance races. Always pushing, pushing, and pushing some more.

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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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The Benchmarking Journey--A Path to Guaranteed Performance Improvement

Management and IT Consulting

You know your business better than anybody. You know its people, its clients, its skills and achievements, and its hard-won victories and the things you’d do differently next time around. It is important to celebrate your wins, but you know it is just as important to the success of your company to look more closely at why you won, and how. Or why you might have lost a deal or how things may have turned sour on that one project.

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How to Avoid Bad Business Decisions: Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast , we're joined Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts LLC and author of Never Go With Your Gut : How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.

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Business As “Usual”

Alan Weiss

One of the best reasons to provide remote services to your clients is for conditions such as exist right now. Either valid or panicked reactions to meetings and public assembly create the need to work with people by remote means, in groups, or one-on-one. If you client is already accustomed to your doing that, then there is no major re-education that needs to take place.

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How to Stream Live PowerPoint Lectures + Webcam to YouTube

NeoAcademic

As most colleges and universities around the world begin to transition into online teaching in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, I thought it might be useful to develop a guide explaining how to stream PowerPoint plus a webcam feed overlay live to YouTube. This is the same technique I used to record video for my free online course on R , which was done partly at home and partly through live captures on my in-person course.

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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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Staying Safe Is the Motto of the Day, Week, Month

Martinka Consulting

I’d be remiss to not write this memo about the Coronavirus and yet I’m not going to go into whether it’s just the flu (like some say), over or under reaction, or if people should wear masks to bed. I do know the virus has a longer than normal life of being alive, spreads super-fast through our easily traveled and networked world, and that’s what’s concerning people So, let’s cover what it’s doing to people like you and me, i.e. business owners and executives.

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When organisations are ready to deep dive in Artificial Intel.

Consulthon

Hello Everyone, as this is my first "experience" with Consulthon, would be happy to build on your experience! For more than 14 years, being working (high executive positions) for LafargeHolcim (lea.

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Why Can’t We All Just Be Happy?

Alan Weiss

The Wall Street Journal actually ran a piece recently on how to judge and improve employee happiness. Some time ago I was asked by a consultant whom I was coaching how to handle a dilemma. He was hired by a law firm to work with the top revenue generator, an ace courtroom attorney who didn’t get along with any of her 14 co-workers very well. She was tough, assertive, and really uncaring about their feelings.

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Trying to Understand SIOP 2020 and Coronavirus

NeoAcademic

Mar 17 Update: Four days after posting this (although it felt like longer!), SIOP 2020 was officially canceled. Clues from the official announcement point to financial concerns being the major issue to resolve before announcing, as I predicted below. We still don’t know if there will be an online version of the conference, but at least we know SIOPers won’t be infecting each other come April.

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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.