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4 Steps to Scale Your Consulting Business

Consulting Success

Let’s look at how you can scale your consulting business. You’re in the position where you want to grow your consulting business. You want to create a lot more leverage. More freedom. More flexibility. So much so that your business can run to without your direct day-to-day involvement. Most consultants find they hold on to the stuff that they don’t need to be doing for far too long because they think that they can do. 4 Steps to Scale Your Consulting Business is a post from: Consulti

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Five Emotions that Stall Your Consulting Firm’s Business Development Efforts

David A Fields

Consulting is an emotion-driven purchase. If you don’t understand your consulting prospects’ desires and fears, their sources of happiness and anxiety, your business development efforts will hit hard ceilings. But what about your emotions? Could they be undermining your success? Dolls. Miniature people that kids play with.

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Making Change Is Not a Matter of Willpower

Strategy+Business

Research emphasizes the need to uncover old habits that are blocking transformation.

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What do you need in your eLearning portfolio?

Clarity Consultants

Your portfolio is one of the most important elements of your job search materials. And even if you are not actively looking for a new opportunity, it's key to keep your resume and your portfolio up to date and current so that it's ready when you need it. But if you are building a career in learning and development, your portfolio looks nothing like a design portfolio.

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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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Building A Consultant Growth Mindset For Greater Success: Podcast #51

Consulting Success

The people that I see that struggle the most are those that say to themselves, “I want to see greater success. I want to see a greater result in my life and my business,” but yet, they’re not prepared to change anything that they’re currently doing. They’re just trying to do more of the same stuff. If the same stuff isn’t getting you to where you want to go, then doing more of it is not going.

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The age old tale of financial crises

Tom Spencer

The story of the 2008 financial crisis begins somewhere shortly after the death of Jesus Christ himself. Not 33 years after Christ’s passing did Emperor Tiberius of the Roman Empire have to rescue his constituents’ financial sanctity through the age-old process of quantitative easing. The Roman Empire was in shambles following a severe economic downturn caused by the deteriorating value of ivory and ostrich feathers.

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Top 10 YouTube Channels for Learning & Development Professionals 2018

Clarity Consultants

Instructional designers know that video is one of the best tools for learning. So what better place to find up-to-date learning and development (L&D) information and insights than YouTube? We wanted to find out which YouTube channels had the best content for L&D professionals, so we did our research and compiled the following list of what we think are the most interesting and useful channels.

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Is it time to take down your blog?

Chad Barr

If you are posting valuable content to your blog and do so consistently, kudos to you, my sincere respect and appreciation as you may want to skip this article. Otherwise, I encourage you to continue reading. A few questions I would like to ask you: When was the last time you posted valuable content to your blog? How frequently do you do so? How many gaps in time are clearly shown when viewing your blog?

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How To Use The Four Ps Of Marketing To Compete With Giants

Henry DeVries

Phuong Uyen Tran, author of "Competing With Giants," shares her best David vs. Goliath marketing tips utilizing the classic four Ps of marketing: place, price, production, and promotion.

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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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Skills Matter

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Skills matter: I know that I’m skewed towards the importance of soft skills in the decision sciences. It’s important that clients understand the potential of data. When they do the work analysts do is worthwhile work, not donkey work. This whitepaper from the Institute of Analytics Professionals outlines the argument in more detail.

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Ever Wonder How ProFinder & Upwork Could Help your Practice?

Women in Consulting

By: Amy Huson. :: Recently, the South Bay members of Women in Communication gathered over lunch to discuss how members can leverage Upwork and LinkedIn Profinder in their consulting practice. Co-host Angel Rampy moderated the panel and shared her own experience with LinkedIn Profinder: “It landed me a one-year coaching gig with a big social media organization.

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Using Neuroscience to Make Feedback Work and Feel Better

Strategy+Business

If you want to put employees on edge, tell them they will receive some feedback. But if you want to send them over the edge, tell them they'll be giving feedback. However, you can use neuroscience to help make the feedback process more beneficial and less anxiety producing.

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Digital Nomads: Who They Are, What They Want, Are They Growing?

MBO Partners

A deep dive into the world of digital nomads, workers who embrace a location-independent, technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to travel and work remotely.

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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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Skills Matter

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: Interesting whitepaper from the Institute of Analytics Professionals. I know that I’m skewed towards the importance of soft skills in the decision sciences, so that clients understand the potential of data, so that the work analysts do is worthwhile work, not donkey work, but it seems like that is the main thrust of this paper […].

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How to Take the Stress Out of Taking Time Off

Harvard Business

Laura Findlay/Getty Images. Have you ever questioned whether taking time off is worth it because the stress of preparing for a vacation is so high? If so, you’re not alone. Over half of Americans leave some vacation time on the table. Some of the reasons for the lack of vacations include feeling that their workload was too heavy or that no one could do their job while they were gone.

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Tips to Protect and Profit from Your Intellectual Property

Emerson Consulting Group

By Neil Burnstein. Today licensing of intellectual property is a multi-billion dollar industry. In order to capitalize on such growth, entrepreneurs are seeking ways to protect and maximize the value of their ideas, inventions, artistic creations and other forms of intellectual property. In addition to creating lucrative licensing opportunities, intellectual property protects business assets, creates new revenue streams, provides security for loans and enhances value in the eyes of investors.

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Predicting Business Success and Sports Drafts – A Crapshoot

Martinka Consulting

We were trying to help a young friend of the family with his job search (before and after insisting he meet with Matt Youngquist at Career Horizons). Whether it’s just him or because he’s a millennial but he was pretty full of himself. We think his attitude was (is), “I’m smart, I’m cool, and I’m in digital marketing so companies will be chasing me.

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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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What chess teaches us about relationships

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: If you’re smart and you want to be smarter, this podcast is fabulous. Shane Parrish’s Knowledge Project hits the spot every time. This one, where he interviews Tyler Cowen is a little boring auditorially (his voice can be described as “computer generated”) but the words themselves are beautifully provocative.

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Assessment: How Productive Are You?

Harvard Business

Are you feeling overwhelmed by your obligations at work and home? You are in good company. A majority of U.S. employees complain that they feel overwhelmed, according to surveys. As a coach and mentor focusing on productivity, I’ve heard this complaint hundreds of times, from managers and officials across the world. Productivity has many aspects.

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The BVFLS serenity prayer

Rod Burkert

Hey everyone. Just a short post today since most of us are thinking about the upcoming Labor Day weekend and the unofficial end of summer. (Where did THOSE months go?!) And maybe not a “post” so much as a reminder about what we do. Success is the product of persistence and percentages. If I am persistent, I can make my audience of leads and prospects aware of me.

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Getting the Owner Out of the Way

Martinka Consulting

I posted recently about seeing a rash of mangled financial statements. I wrote it’s my top item owners should fix to increase value, and just behind this is getting him or herself out of the way. In the last couple weeks I ran into companies where the owner: Is the only one who does the bids. Spends over 80% of his time doing “billable hours” work (a professional firm).

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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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What chess teaches us about relationships

Consultants' Consultant

Consultants Consultant: If you’re smart and you want to be smarter, this podcast is fabulous. Shane Parrish’s Knowledge Project hits the spot every time. This one, where he interviews Tyler Cowen is a little boring auditorially (his voice can be described as “computer generated”) but the words themselves are beautifully provocative.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Women of color are a force in the U.S. economy. They are projected to make up the majority of all women by 2060, which means they’ll also likely become the majority of the U.S. workforce. They also generate $1 trillion as consumers and $361 billion in revenue as entrepreneurs, launching companies at 4x the rate of all woman-owned businesses.

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Business Software Simplicity is Essential

Management and IT Consulting

Based on research with top consulting firms, find out what’s most important to them as they look to automate and run their businesses more efficiently

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The Effect of Stretch Goals on Employee Engagement

LSA Global

The Effect of Stretch Goals on Employee Engagement. Stretch goals are performance goals that can only be achieved by extending oneself to the limit. According to Google, which has become known for its audacious business goal philosophy, “Stretch goals are the building blocks for remarkable achievements in the long term.” But even Google sometimes fails to reach its goals and those disappointing results can have unwanted consequences – killing motivation and damaging performance.

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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.