Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

So, you want to raise your consulting fees? Most consultants do. But, there are many factors holding them back. This year, we sent out our most comprehensive consulting fees survey to date. And we’re sharing all our findings and insights with you below. If you feel like something is holding you back from raising your. 2019 Consulting Fees Study (And How To Raise Your Rates) is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Leads come in all shapes, sizes, and qualities. There are good leads that are a pleasure to work with. And there are bad leads who eat up your time and attention. The best way to keep the bad leads out of your life? Give your website an elite assistant that keeps the monsters out. Let’s talk about the three ways you can take leads in through your website, and what each looks like for you and your business.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Advice for leaders who are afraid of saying the wrong thing.

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Henman Performance Executive

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

November is the perfect month to start thinking about next year’s strategic objectives. If you wait until December or January, your strategy will take a backseat to the instant gratification tactics offer. Similarly, if you’ve had a really good year, you and those in your change of command will be tempted to rest on your […]. The post Seven Ways to Sell Your 2020 Strategy appeared first on Henman Performance Group.

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Your soft, consulting heart practically bursts when your client crows, “Investing with you was the smartest move we’ve made on our business.” Woe are you, therefore, when your client begrudgingly, reluctantly scratches out a check to your consulting firm after you’ve delivered a monster-sized win for them. Dratmuffins! What’s up with that negativity?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

RPA, which stands for ‘ robotic process automation ’, is a technology that consists of software robots ( bots ) that can mimic a human worker performing operations on their laptops. RPA bots can log into applications, enter data, calculate and complete tasks and then log out, send emails, extract data from websites and excel, and generate reports. RPA software is not part of an organization’s IT infrastructure.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You want to present a talk, workshop, experience report at a conference. (Or, a lightning talk, Pecha Kucha, or more.) You have something important to share. How can you create a proposal that the program committee will accept? I'm writing this series to explain how to do just that. The series parts are: Understand who and what purpose the proposal serves.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

In school, you get the grade you’ve objectively earned. In the workplace, what you get isn’t as objective. In many cases, you get what you’ve convinced someone else to give you. Want that promotion? You need to convince someone. Want a raise? You need to convince someone. Want a budget for your project? You need to convince someone. Want someone to work for you?

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Today, Millennials are the largest portion of the workforce, a position they claimed several years ago and will likely hold for a significant amount of time. Estimates suggest that, by the end of 2025, Millennials will make up 75 percent of the global workforce. And, since this generation values professional development, their increasing presence is dramatically impacting the expectations employers.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

“Robots could take over twenty-million jobs by 2030” (Taylor, 2019). Economists have analysed long-term trends around the level of automation in the workplace. Currently, we live along-side 2.25 million robots worldwide. This statistic has multiplied threefold in the last two decades (Taylor, 2019). Humans invent things that society needs. This reasoning forms the basis of the saying that “necessity is the mother of invention” (Woodford, 2019).

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

You decided who your session is for: the people with the problems. You've got the outcomes. Now, it's time to write the abstract. Conference proposals always have a short abstract. Some conferences, such as the Agile 20xx conferences, also have “Information for the Program Team.” You might think of that as the outline or more information about what you're proposing.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When I am contacted by candidates who have made it through the case interview process with a successful offer, often I get emails like the one below with tips for those still interviewing. Field Report: It's been about 8 months that I was dreaming to write this e-mail to you. Tomorrow I'm joining McKinsey in the Middle East and I'm very excited about it.

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Chad Barr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As many of you know, one of my many passions is photography. Other passions of mine include: the development of web strategies and digital content for us and our clients, playing the guitar, spending precious time with my family (did I tell you about my grandkids yet?) and my most recent passion, playing the hottest and fastest growing sport in the US – Pickle Ball.

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The Fearless Marketer

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It’s been a challenging month in many ways. First, we lost power for four days which I wrote about last week. Then a few days later my main computer died. Thank God I have a laptop! Then my wife informed me that the place we’re staying for a two-week vacation in Mexico in January is not the place she wants to stay. And they’ll only refund 50% of the fee.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Now that you've framed your proposal, start with what you want people to talk away from the talk, the outcomes. Why? Because too many descriptions are a promise for an outcome or what people will learn. If you're coy about the outcomes, people can't select themselves in or out for your presentation. Speakers who say, “Everyone should hear my ideas” kid themselves.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Question: Thank you very much for your daily emails and for the website. It helped me a lot in getting ready for case interviews , and now I have an offer from BCG [ Eastern Europe ] and A.T. Kearney [ Western Europe ]. And that is exactly the question I would like to ask you. Even though I appreciate you are American, I have this big concern which you may have a very valuable perspective on.

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Consultants' Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Consultants Consultant: On a quest to better meetings? Here’s something from Harvard Business Review: Make sure. The post Better meetings: solve the problem appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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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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Simon Associates

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Every last one of us makes mistakes — that's a given. If you aren't making any mistakes, chances are you're not trying anything new, which is a mistake in itself. The famed UCLA basketball coach John "the Wizard of Westwood" Wooden said , "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.”. Although they often feel like huge gaffes or missteps (especially when it’s you who’s made them), mistakes can lead to great ideas and innovation.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One thing President Trump and other politicians have in common is the bashing of large tech companies. It used to be bashing Walmart. Yes, Walmart took over a lot of small to mid-sized towns. Yes, some small businesses (perhaps many) didn’t survive. But the politicians made it seem like these small retailers were thriving businesses with very high paid employees.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

I received an email the other day from an F1Y (future first year) who recently got an offer following his BCG interview. I asked him to describe the interview format he experienced and make some suggestions for others who will soon be going through the BCG interview process. While that interview process within a firm will sometimes vary from country to country, I think 85%+ of what this F1Y shares is applicable to others applying to BCG, and 70%+ is applicable to other firms.

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Brad shares the outcomes he’s seeing after reading Get More Leads. I went from zero leads…to a couple leads a week…to averaging a couple leads per day. I need to filter them better just to be able to gracefully handle them all! It’s crazy. I’ve made over $2000 since reading your book and implementing it. I’ve got two project proposals out right now for another $2k each.

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Rod Burkert

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In case you missed last week: Your report meets spec … here’s why that’s a problem. Over the years, by design , most of our valuation reports have come to look the same. If they all meet the expected spec, how does any report stand out? And is it any wonder our pricing is collapsing? On to this week: At one time in your professional life, I imagine you have participated on a webinar.

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On the Brink Podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hear how great things happen when you're willing to change ! Jake Manthei and his company, Aster Brands , was a client of ours when I led a Blue Ocean Strategy workshop for their manufacturers last year. These were very smart individuals who each knew it was time to find their Blue Ocean. They also knew they have to continue to innovate, find new ways to solve problems, and at times, pause and re-think “the way we do things.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Question: I recently completed six interviews with BCG and am about to receive my offer to join them as a Project Lead. I found your case study videos very useful, as is the one-page framework handout, to prepare me for the interviews. I was quite nervous at first, as this is the first time in 15 years that I've been interviewed so thoroughly! But I assured myself that if I wasn't good enough to get through the interviews, then it would be better not to get an offer anyways, as I wouldn't enjoy

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

A few years ago, Nancy Lublin discovered something obvious. Nancy was the founder of Dosomething.org , the largest teenage charity in the world. In order to keep up with its members, Dosomething shifted their communications from email to texting (yes, that’s obvious, but that’s not what she discovered). Monitoring the effectiveness of the texts, she realized that even though the millions of texts they were sending were clearly announcements, not personal notes, kids were texting back

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