Consulting Success

AUGUST 9, 2018

Let’s talk about how marketing changes based on the current level of maturity of your consulting business. The first thing that’s really important to understand here is that it’s your marketing will change not just based on the maturity of your business, but really on the maturity of the marketing in your business. What I mean by that is you may be in business for 10 years already, but you’ve received all your business from.

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David A Fields

AUGUST 7, 2018

The roofer spiffying up my Connecticut abode should be done in a day or two, then I’ll see him again, uhm, never? Roofing seems like a tough business. Always hustling for completely new customers because the repeat cycle is a few decades.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. Do you know the ONE thing that will have the biggest impact on your ability to provide amazing consulting solutions to highly influential senior leaders? Is it your technique abilities and unique certifications? Is it your business acumen and ability to speak the language of business? Is it your aggressiveness to convince a senior leader to include you in their strategic work?

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Henry DeVries

AUGUST 10, 2018

“When it comes to branding, don’t overthink it,” says branding expert Yali Saar. Branding is about creating a positive image for the company in the consumer’s minds.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 7, 2018

If you’ve looked into how to start a consulting business, there’s no doubt you’ve come across countless articles or videos that make it look like a no-brainer to “get rich quick.” “Make six figures your first month!” “You don’t need any experience to be successful” There’s a lot of misinformation out there. In today’s digital age, it’s relatively easy for anyone to write an article or record a video on starting your own consulting business.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. I have two children. When they were small, they used to go to daycare. What this meant in practicality to me was: two kids + daycare = many fevers and visits to the doctor’s office. As the parent, I was able detect and even treat the fever. However, in order to get rid of the fever, I had to rely on my doctor to discern whether the fever was caused by a bacteria or a virus and, if so, what part of the body the bacteria or virus was infecting.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

There is a discussion brewing among contact center leaders about what to call the front-line employees who handle calls and other customer interactions. Historically they have been referred to as “agents” or “representatives.” But as customer experience takes a more prominent role and these employees become more strategic, those titles don’t go far enough.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 7, 2018

If you’ve looked into how to become a consultant and start a consulting business, there’s no doubt you’ve come across countless articles or videos that make it look like a no-brainer to “get rich quick.” “Make six figures your first month!” “You don’t need any experience to be successful” There’s a lot of misinformation out there. In today’s digital age, it’s relatively easy for anyone to write an article or record a video on starting.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2018

The imagination is a wild and wonderful tool for cooking up business ideas and solutions to problems – but unfortunately, control over the flow of that creativity seems out of our hands! Sure, reading lots and keeping the mind sharp with puzzles and challenges are great ways to keep you on top of your game, but sometimes writer’s block strikes without explanation.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. Here's a common conundrum. Smart and values-driven consultants typically don't like marketing. Yet they hate being the world's best kept secret. Same goes for internal consultants. Just because you have an official role in the organization to support leaders through change and transition doesn't mean that they are aware of who you are and how to best leverage your expertise.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 8, 2018

Criticism involves telling someone what they did wrong (or worse yet, telling them what’s wrong with them ). A request involves asking somebody to do something a specific way next time. When you’re talking to a spouse, an employee, or your child, and they do something you don’t like, you have a few options. 1) Criticize them. 2) Criticize them and request they do things differently next time. 3) Request they do things differently next time.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 6, 2018

A lot of times, what we see for new product companies are you’ve got a couple of founders where one knows the product well because that started the idea, and then one knows how to market and sell the product. Once you have those two things together, the next piece is the ecommerce operations piece. Many times as companies grow quickly, the sales and marketing of those products quickly outpaces the operations.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2018

The consulting industry is a very competitive field with an abundance of highly educated professionals with proven track records of success. In order to succeed and stay relevant in such a competitive field, consultants have to keep their knowledge up to date and continuously hone their skills. The question is, what is the best way to develop skills and grow professionally without the big price tags that come with graduate and postgraduate courses.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. When it comes to consulting to change, your first task it to identify what kind of change your client is embarking on. There are actually three types of change, requiring different types of change leadership and consulting support. To ensure that your client's change doesn't become another dreaded "flavor of the month," you need to provide them the right tools that are relevant for the type of change they are considering.

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Henry DeVries

AUGUST 6, 2018

Speaking is the number one strategy for attracting high-paying clients. But what is your speaker style? Are you a presenter like Steve Jobs, Suze Orman, Dave Ramsey or Tony Robbins?

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 9, 2018

In business, there is a consistent battle between working toward long term goals and achieving short term benefits. Learning and development programs are often front and center in the battle between these two priorities. But they are not necessarily conflicting priorities. The post Employee Retention Series: How Can Ongoing Training For Your Employees Actually Benefit Your Business?

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Chad Barr

AUGUST 8, 2018

Photo by: Chad Barr. One of the most powerful questions I often ask myself and my clients is “how do you paint success?” in other words, if you were to fast forward into the future, what does success look like? This question is crucial in helping us identify and formulate our strategy and create and shape our future. So why is it that most don’t invest the time and energy to frequently paint their future success?

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. Do you the one meeting that will literally change your client's life and define your entire client engagement and earning potential? It's the meeting that some might call a Discovery Meeting, Free Consult or Complimentary Strategy Session. Regardless of how you refer to this discussion with a potential client who expresses interest in working with you, how you handle it determines: Your contract size and scope.

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Strategy+Business

AUGUST 6, 2018

Take the time and effort to look for new ways of doing things, and turn away from old habits that block that process.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

mark ralston/Getty Images. The United States is no stranger to self-improvement, from the meditation and essential oils of the 60s to the Jane Fonda aerobics tapes of the 1980s and the fat-free-everything 1990s. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841, sounding a bit like a modern SoulCycle instructor.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2018

Project advances might be rare. However, you can take advantage of seeing the conditions to create your advance. I’m at the Agile 2018 conference this week. Yesterday, I was scheduled to deliver my Agile and Lean Roadmapping talk at 10:45 am. However, the room was full 15 minutes in advance. I checked with the volunteers—yes, they had closed the room.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Download Episode Transcript. One of the biggest lies we all believe in is that "It's nothing personal - it's just business." The truth is that when it comes to organizational change - everything is personal. Changes that impact workflow and organizational structure affect more than process efficiency and the bottom-line. They also redefine the work that someone does everyday, who is on their team and future career opportunities.

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Consulthon

AUGUST 8, 2018

Hi, consulthONES, I'm currently doing shadowing in order to do measurements for a couple of activities/processes that I've mapped before this. I would like to know what's the best method to calcula.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Alicia Llop/Getty Images. Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? I have one such document in front of me as I write this. It starts with a “vision” statement, moves on to “strategic themes” (six in all) and culminates in 28 “strategic goals.” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling o

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2018

I don’t know exactly what happened. I don’t know if it happened to a male or female. I do know that my wife nudged me and pointed to the airplane’s pilot reaming out a passenger for touching a flight attendant (perhaps inappropriately?). I heard things including: “We will have law enforcement meet you when we land” (and they did, the Port Authority police escorted the man off the plane as the rest of us were asked to stay seated).

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