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How to Design a Consulting Business You and Your Clients Love with Jonathan Fields: Podcast #212

Consulting Success

While business success and happiness seem exclusive, it is possible to design a successful consulting business that you and your clients will be happy about. Best-selling author and founder of the Good Life Project Jonathan Fields sits down with host Michael Zipursky as they talk about the fundamental nature of work, transforming yourself, self-awareness, and.

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The real reason people are quitting

Brimstone Consulting

The real reason for “The Great Resignation” is that employees are fed up with not being listened to and not being valued. “Workers surveyed are not in the least bit happy with the way they are managed or told to work.” “Leadership has to wake up to the demands of their employees if they hope to attract and retain great talent in the 21st century.” “This is not the end of management and hierarchy, rather it’s a shift where companies involve the workforce in the design and maintenance of an organi

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6 Strategies to Boost Retention Through the Great Resignation

Harvard Business

Are you giving people a good reason to stay?

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5 Easy Questions to Detect Huge Opportunities for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

As you think about how to grow your consulting firm, you may want to explore new offerings or new markets for your services. For instance, the opportunity to win doorway advisory projects looks wide open, or you could turn your attention to the booming fireworks market. Whether you’re expanding on a successful service line or … Continued. The post 5 Easy Questions to Detect Huge Opportunities for Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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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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4 Courageous People: Turning Setbacks into Successes

Rick Conlow

Courageous people can survive just about anything because they are resilient. They demonstrate hope within tragedy and defeat. All of us could use more encouragement like this amid this pandemic. Unfortunately, Steven Wolin , Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, says our culture tends to perpetuate all of us as victims. He says it encourages frailty by enabling people to dwell on their troubles too much.

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Early Career Tips for Success

Tom Spencer

Starting out in any profession is difficult. Starting out and standing out simultaneously is even harder. In this article, we will look at some of the things I learned from my experience interning at a range of consulting firms this summer. 1. The power of networking. Although networking is a widely cited element of success in the early stages of a career, I didn’t realise until recently how critical to success networking would be, or why.

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291: Michael Schein—How To Hype Your Business Into Success During Fast-Changing Times

On the Brink Podcast

Learn how to make "hype" powerfully work for you. This was an amazing interview. I met Michael Schein when he interviewed me for an article he was writing for Psychology Today about my podcast, On the Brink with Andi Simon. T hat’s right, the one you are listening to right now. Our conversation led to today's wonderful opportunity to interview him and share his big ideas about how to embrace “hype” and use it to build success.

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Get Ready For Client Attraction Conversations

Henry DeVries

The attraction phase conversation is the preliminary one you want to have before the real conversation. The objective is to get the prospect to ask to go to the next phase. The key is your Defining Statement. Here is an explanation along with some examples of good defining statements.

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The Way of Marketing Moderation

The Fearless Marketer

On a phone call with my youngest sister Sandy yesterday, we talked about her knee problems. Three of my sisters, between them, have had five knee surgeries. All three sisters did a lot of exercising in their lives – sports, running, walking, skiing. And that’s supposed to be good for your health, right? Well, apparently not. Too much exercise puts a lot of strain on your joints, and the knees are often the first to go.

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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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An Overview of Business Development Consulting

Tom Spencer

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. Business development consultants enable companies to reach their full potential and rescue companies that are struggling to survive. Business development consultants engage in ‘prospecting’ which involves searching for potential customers who are likely to be a good fit for the product or service being offered.

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Making Sense of the NFT Marketplace

Harvard Business

Partnering with the right platform is the critical first step to driving customer engagement and securing your position in this new digital economy.

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What lessons can consultants take from COP26?

The Source

Back in 2015, the world’s political and economic leaders gathered in the French capital to hammer out the Paris Climate Accords—an agreement widely hailed at the time as a landmark step in the battle against climate change. Earlier this month, the global elite reconvened in Glasgow for the UN’s COP26 climate conference. This event had been billed as a spiritual successor to the Paris talks of 2015; it marked the first real test of the resilience and the robustness of the Paris Accords, and repre

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Meetings 1 : 1

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Horrified by this stat : More than 42% of one-on-ones are rescheduled every week. The post Meetings 1 : 1 appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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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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Two Conversation Tools For Professionals To Attract Clients

Henry DeVries

If you want to attract high-paying clients, it pays to have two great tools when people ask you who you are and what you do: a defining paragraph and a defining story. Learn how to craft them and when to use them.

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What Do Black Executives Really Want?

Harvard Business

As more and more companies commit to investing in diversity, equity, and inclusion, Black employees still report feeling isolated, unable to be authentic, and struggling with confidence.

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Disruption again, but this time from the supply side

The Source

We’ve written before on this blog about if, when, and how the consulting industry will be disrupted, often suggesting that the forces that will drive change may be hidden in plain sight. Nowhere is that more relevant than when we consider the current talent crisis. We’ve generally defined disruption as a mass change in client behaviour; that, for example, Uber was disruptive, not so much because of its technology, but because people changed the way they travelled.

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Authenticity: just enough

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: I am certified to run Why Should Anyone Be Lead by You, researched by. The post Authenticity: just enough appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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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 to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. In a recent webinar, I addressed some of the typical issues that arise when working with a freelance management consultant.

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To Reduce the Strain of Overwork, Learn to Listen to Your Body

Harvard Business

Teaching themselves to notice bodily strain helped participants in a two-year study better navigate the demands and expectations of their jobs.

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How this CEO Used a Focused, Problem Finding Approach to Grow w/Grant Morgan, R-Zero CEO Ep#131

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Grant Morgan is the Co-founder & CEO of R-Zero, a biosafety tech company delivering a higher standard of human health via safer indoor spaces. The company has grown rapidly, jumping to over 100 employees since being founded in 2020. Prior to founding R-Zero, Grant was an engineer at Abbott, and a VP of Product & Engineering at iCracked, which was acquired by Allstate in 2019.

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Skills Matrix

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Getting unrealistic expectations from your boss? This tool was designed with a particular client. The post Skills Matrix appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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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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Confronting Reluctant Leader Syndrome

Makarios Consulting

You’re a leader with a leadership gap on your team. Fortunately, you have just the person in mind to fill that seat. The team member you want to promote is a strong individual contributor. He has been managing complex projects and initiatives successfully for several years. His two direct reports think the world of him. You are confident he will be a perfect fit for the role’s larger team and expanded responsibilities.

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Research: Restricting Airbnb Rentals Reduces Development

Harvard Business

A new study found that in the three years after regulations were enacted, residential permit applications fell by an average of 10% in 15 U.S. cities.

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Creating Your Impact Statement

Chad Barr

A while back I attended a session where the presenter discussed how to create your 30 second elevator pitch. A disclaimer: I am not a fan of any kind of a pitch and especially one that may take 30 seconds in an elevator! I was curious what breakthrough ideas may be revealed that day. To my astonishment, when the time came for her to present the pitch, she pulled out a piece of paper from her briefcase and read it word for word.

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How to Lead from the Jumpseat & Help Your People Thrive w/Peter Docker Ep#130

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Peter Docker is a former Royal Air Force senior officer and international negotiator for the UK Government. Now he's a keynote speaker and consultant working with the most senior levels in oil & gas, construction, mining, pharmaceuticals, banking, television, film, media, manufacturing and services. He's also an author of multiple books, including one he co-authored with Simon Sinek.

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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.