Sat.Sep 17, 2022 - Fri.Sep 23, 2022

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Consulting Firm Owners, Read This First

David A Fields

Sometimes we consulting firm owners make assumptions and those turn out to be wildly inaccurate. Like thinking our most recent project applies to the next client, presuming an uber-complex analysis takes only three days, or figuring no one will notice if we swap the chocolate covered cherries with brown marbles. In my case, I made … Continued.

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Time Tracking For Consultants: Increase Your Productivity, Profitability, & Fees

Consulting Success

As a consultant, should you be tracking your time? If so, how? The latest data from our consulting industry study showed that 58% of consultants use an hourly rate or project rate (based on hours). Whether you are using an hourly rate or not, there are times that you should and should not be thinking. Time Tracking For Consultants: Increase Your Productivity, Profitability, & Fees is a post from: Consulting Success.

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A Framework for More Effective Consulting Communications

Management and IT Consulting

Learn why having the right communication framework is essential for your consulting firm to captivate your audience by communicating the right message at the right time.

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Why your flat organizational structure limits your success

Asamby Consulting

Flat vs tall organizational structures When your business grows, you add more people to the team. If you don't add a management team, you'll automatically grow a flat organization. Everybody in the firm is reporting to you. What are the problems with a flat structure. What are the benefits of a flat vs a tall organizational structure. In this blog post, we will examine What a flat structure is What a tall structure is The pros and cons of both and How to make a flat organization work Let's go.

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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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How Actionable Strategy Helps Drive Results from Strategy Through Execution

Brimstone Consulting

Actionable Strategy Drives Success. Almost 70% of well-formulated strategies fail because of poor execution. While there are many reasons for this high rate of failure, in our work, we have found that the bridge from strategy to execution tends to fail due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. The strategy is not aligned with the goal.

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Choosing Management Consulting as a Career

Tom Spencer

As a young professional, fresh out of university I was certain I knew which career path I wanted to take. I had done extensive research into the consulting industry and was a member of the consulting club at my university. I knew then without any doubt that consulting was the great career choice for me, and I didn’t need help deciding. Almost three years into the profession, there are new graduates who are struggling.

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Chasing Dreams

CaseInterview.com

I’m a big believer that everyone should spend at least a portion of their life chasing their own dreams. Whether dream chasing is your life focus, or something you do a few hours a month, it has enormous value. The act of pursuing dreams brings a sense of vitality and aliveness to your life. It’s fun. It’s exciting. It’s invigorating. You shift from merely existing, to truly living.

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?The Benefit I Value Most from Women In Consulting

Women in Consulting

By: Kathryn Gorges. Here’s what I consistently treasure about the connections I make in Women In Consulting (and no place else): Friendship with women committed to success in building their business. Women generously sharing hard-won insights into proposals, winning business, charging, business structures, and key financial decisions. Women unapologetically out to make some money and have an impact.

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Do You Really Have Time to Do a Do-over?

Makarios Consulting

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”. – John Wooden, Coach, UCLA Bruins. Over nearly two decades of coaching and developing thousands of leaders, the #1 pushback we receive for any skill or model we present – whether we are talking about giving feedback, managing change, handling delegation, addressing conflict, etc. – is “I don’t have time for that.”.

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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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How Can You Thrive As A Woman In A Male-Dominated Industry? 5 Steps To Follow

Simon Associates

I started my career as an academic anthropologist , then shifted my focus to banking and then healthcare. As a consultant or an executive, I quickly found that whether it was a staff meeting, a board meeting, or a client meeting, I was often the only woman in the room. When it was my turn to make a presentation, I watched with wonder as some of the men left to get coffee.

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Have A Business Idea? Not Sure What To Do Next?

Business Consulting Agency

A very common situation for people is that they have a business idea but are not sure what to do next. It is the most common situation for first time entrepreneurs and established even. Seasoned entrepreneurs can feel stuck as well. Not knowing how to proceed is a common challenge to overcome. There is help! Business consultants work with entrepreneurs and existing companies.

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What Has the Pandemic Done for You?

Chad Barr

My clients, Richard Citrin and Michael Couch , have thought-provoking conversations with great thought leaders on their Leadership Café show. One of the questions they often ask is: “What has the pandemic done for you?” First, I want to acknowledge the dreadful conditions and deaths the pandemic has brought to millions around the world.

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Do You Really Have Time to Do a Do-over?

Makarios Consulting

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden, Coach, UCLA Bruins Over nearly two decades of coaching and developing thousands of leaders, the #1 pushback we receive for any skill or model we present – whether we are talking about giving feedback, managing change, handling delegation, addressing conflict, etc. – is “I don’t have time for that.

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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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Leadership Habit Jailbreak: Overcoming 5 Common Objections

Organizational Talent Consulting

Most leaders want to become better leaders. But it’s normal to have objections and doubts about investing in developing better leadership habits. When I talk with executives, I hear about how they are grappling with new workforce challenges, strategic concerns, and increasing demands for innovation. Observing these leaders in action, they often rush from meeting to meeting, fight one fire after another and respond to endless emails.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level? What are project management maturity models? Find answers to these questions in the article. .

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De-escalation

Alan Weiss

My experience is that when I have to escalate an issue with people in authority I’m successful 90% of the time. (The other 10% usually involves government.) So the front line manager waffles or can’t decide or is afraid, and the immediate superior doesn’t feel it’s a priority, but eventually I reach someone who realizes the least expensive and most promising resolution is to fix it immediately.Thus, the insurance claim is paid, the watch repair is completed, the hotel exp

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Strategic plan Implementation: How to connect your strategy to your operations

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

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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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Larry Fink at BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit

Harvard Business

What role should investors play in urging business leaders to take environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues more seriously and enforcing compliance?

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The chief hype officer

Seth Godin Blog

The chief marketing officer at a big company has an impossible job. The typical duration of a CMO is 18 months because once the CEO realizes that hype for money can’t solve their problems, they get restless. The problem lies in what people think “marketing” is. Marketing isn’t paying for ads, changing the logo or building a social media presence.

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How Sales Leaders Drive Growth

LSA Global

Top Sales Leaders Drive Growth If you find a sales leader who Is not up to the challenge of accelerating revenue growth, you have not found a high performing sales leader. But you need more from a sales leader than simply a desire to grow the top line. High performing sales leaders also have the will and the understanding of what really works to create sales growth.

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Outsourcing is a sure bet for financial services in 2023

1 to 1

Today’s business climate is creating a difficult balancing act for CX leaders. On one hand, they’re looking to provide customers with excellent service while providing omnichannel engagement in customers’ preferred channels. On the other hand, hiring skilled labor and retaining a trained workforce continues to be challenging in the current market. These opposing criteria can strain contact center operations and effect their ability to provide customer service at the desired level.

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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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It’s Time to Fine-Tune Performance Management

Harvard Business

A conversation with Harvard’s Heidi Gardner about incentivizing collaboration and long-term customer value.

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The beef tax

Seth Godin Blog

We’re all paying it, every day. In the US, taxpayers subsidize the cattle industry with billions of dollars of tax money each year. Most of that goes to pay for feed crops, but there is also a huge allocation of public land for the grazing of cows. About half the land in the entire country is just for cattle. In addition, a significant portion of the climate problem is directly caused by the effects of bovine respiration as well as the clear-cutting of forests for grazing worldwide.

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How to Develop New People Leaders

LSA Global

Promotion to Management and How to Develop New People Leaders While being promoted to a management role is exciting, many first time people leaders are dismayed by how difficult it can be to lead, manage, and coach teams of people with different roles, skills, attitudes, and desires. Unfortunately, most companies do not invest the time to develop new people leaders so that they are set up for success.

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How Do You Handle a Brilliant Jerk?

Peter Stark

I’ve worked on several executive coaching projects where one team member is a royal jerk. What makes someone a jerk? Here’s our definition: someone who is rude, abrasive, condescending, undermines or puts others down, is arrogant, blames others, and, in a nutshell, is difficult for multiple people to deal with. We emphasize multiple people because if only one person has difficulty dealing with this person, both may be exhibiting behaviors that are undermining their relationship. .

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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.