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Employee Hiring Strategies For Consulting Business Owners With Brian McComak: Podcast #271

Consulting Success

Choosing the right person to work with you is critical in business. It can be the factor that will drive your business into success or chaos. In this episode, Brian McComak, the CEO and Founder of Hummingbird Humanity, dives deep into employee hiring strategies for consulting business owners. He discusses the repositioning of Hummingbird to. Employee Hiring Strategies For Consulting Business Owners With Brian McComak: Podcast #271 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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4 Keys to Strategic Success in 2023

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

At the start of a new year, folks have predictions, resolutions, goals, and other areas of focus that too often end up as wishes pretty quickly. Instead of grand proclamations, I wanted to offer up a few pragmatic areas to focus on in 2023. I’ve broken them down to four focuses so that you can keep them with you throughout the year. Know Your Target Customer : Business success starts with understanding who your customer is or who you want that customer to be.

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What Clients REALLY Want to Know About Your Consulting Firms’ Approach

David A Fields

May Bezold, EVP of the Post-Revelry division at Back2Work, Inc., has asked your consulting firm for a proposal. You know from experience that if you share too little of your approach, a prospect like May won’t sign. However, sharing too much detail also leads to problems. What’s the right amount of information to share about … Continued. The post What Clients REALLY Want to Know About Your Consulting Firms’ Approach appeared first on David A.

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Rule of Thumb #2: Use Behavioral Lenses to Innovate and Adapt to Changes

Steve Shu Consulting

Last night I had a good dinner and conversation with a long-time friend and colleague. We talked about the recently passed Secure Act 2.0 and potential behavioral implications and impacts on the ecosystem and players. For those unfamiliar with Secure Act 2.0, this legislation covers finance and retirement-related considerations. Just to give some examples without covering the breadth, the Act includes items such as whether employers must provide automatic savings rate escalators in their plans,

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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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Failed resolutions? Here’s how to break the habit.

The Management Centre

I’m a resolution failure. It is highly likely you have already broken your new years resolution, along with almost everyone else. And it seems to me (admittedly from chats and straw polls, this isn’t science) that almost every year resolutions tend to be about mind, body, and not drinking the good stuff. Maybe because we make these promises after all the festive indulgence, and maybe because of all the summer holiday adverts.

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One Hour per Day

CaseInterview.com

Two young men graduated from college together 20 years ago. Both men came from similar backgrounds, had similar intellects, and similar skills. Twenty years later, one of those men had progressed to be a mid-level manager in his company, while the other became the company’s CEO. While this particular story is fictitious, it does prompt the following question… Why do otherwise similarly talented people diverge in their career performances over time?

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Rule of Thumb #1: Adopt a Portfolio Approach When Implementing Behavioral Science Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

While I will address return on investment (ROI) considerations in a future post, probably one of the first rules of thumb I have is to use some degree of portfolio thinking and management processes for implementing behavioral science initiatives. Research indicates that seemingly promising behavioral interventions sometimes do not work, and it can be hard to predict what will actually work (Milkman et al., 2021).

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Creating Buy-in & Facilitating Change Management

UPD Consulting

“Deep and sustainable change.requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.”. – Douglas B. Reeves. Addressing stakeholder resistance to a new initiative can be daunting and provoke feelings of anxiety in those trying to implement change. That said, organizations and leaders can use a few straightforward strategies to build support and tackle barriers to change for their large-scale initiatives.

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Do You Have Business Trouble? Can You Use Some Help?

Business Consulting Agency

A business can have trouble at times. This can even be for a good reason such as business growth. There is a wide range of reasons a business can experience trouble. Do you have business trouble? Can you use some help? Find out how working with a business consultant can quickly eliminate your business trouble. In certain instances, working with a business consultant can help avoid business trouble.

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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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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Let us face it, CEOs often isolated themselves from the average employee. (We wrote and challenged them about this seven years ago.) Most still sequester themselves in the penthouse office of the corporate headquarters. They cannot dance with employees because they think they are too busy to engage employees. Dancing here refers to engaging, supporting, and communicating with employees in multiple ways.

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Applied Behavioral Economics Series 2023

Steve Shu Consulting

In 2023, I’m going to experiment with series of short posts and mixed media that will try to appeal to those that are thinking of starting behavioral economics initiatives or trying to take things to the next level. I have a unique background to bring this type of content as I have worked in the commercial world for more than 30 years while also having an academic research and teaching background in behavioral economics.

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At Last! First-Ever Women Referees Smash Glass Ceiling At World Cup

Simon Associates

"Ref, no way was that offsides." "Foul? You call that a foul?" "Oh c'mon, you're giving me a YELLOW CARD??". At the recently-concluded World Cup held over 29 days in Quatar, the comments levied at referees — from players, coaches and spectators alike — were in some cases, for the first time ever, directed at women referees. That's right: six women officials (including Kathryn Nesbitt of the US) worked this year's tournament, the most-watched international sporting event on the planet.

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9 Ways For Busy Business Owners To Write A Book

Henry DeVries

It may seem like there is no time in your busy schedule to write that book you know is in you. Here are nine ways for you to consider.

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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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Is Your ERP Project Done? Do These 3 Things Before Closing the Book.

PM Alliance

The list of activities needed to move an ERP implementation project from idea to reality is enormous, and the thought of checking off that last task can be exhilarating. But before you consider your ERP initiative truly done, there are a few closeout items that need to be handled. 1: Documentation. Even though your new ERP system probably came complete with reams of documentation, the vastness of these solutions means that you should note down some details that may be unique to your organization

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Short Blurb for Behavioral Economics and Human Behavior Project Course (AEM 4000, Spring 2023 at Cornell University)

Steve Shu Consulting

For Dyson students looking to get a short summary of what is different about my AEM 4000 section, here is short blurb: The theme for this section is around Behavioral Economics and Human Behavior. This section is designed to introduce students to the field of behavioral economics and how it can help us understand and influence human behavior. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on projects, students will learn about key concepts like heuristics and biases and how to apply s

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How to Motivate a Top Performer — When You Can’t Promote Them

Harvard Business

Talented employees may feel demoralized by slow career advancement. These interim strategies can help ensure their underlying needs are met.

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Kai’s Picks Issue #1 – The Ultimate Annual Review Template

Kai Davis

I’m trying something new. Every Friday, you’ll get a link to a relevant resource (or two), a short write-up about why the resource is relevant, and a round-up of this week’s letters. Kai’s Pick: The Ultimate Annual Review Template. For anyone looking for a template for an annual review, this one ( [link] ) by Schlaf is very good.

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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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Personal Accountability: How do I Manage Myself if My Manager Won’t Manage Me?

Effective Managers

This is a real quandary. Effective managers know that the most important part of their job is to manage their team members. This includes setting context for their work and delegating clearly their accountabilities. In other words, having personal accountability for their managerial leadership work. And yet most managers in organizations do not focus enough on their managerial leadership work.

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How to Create a Project Timeline in 6 Steps: A Quick Guide

Epicflow

The success of any project largely depends on the efficiency of its initial planning and tracking its progress. In project management, there’s a variety of tools that make it possible to plan project work and assess the workflow from different perspectives. A project timeline is one of them. What is it exactly, and how to create one? Let’s figure it out in the article.

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Make the Decision to Start the New Year Right

Makarios Consulting

Today, you as a leader may be thinking about one person on your team who just isn’t measuring up. Maybe it’s how they relate to other people – pure, plain toxicity. Perhaps it is their work – or lack of it. It could be their approach – such as a failure to conform to the company’s core values. Yet even now, in the midst of your frustration, your thoughts skitter away from addressing the issue.

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How to turn off the Zoom app dock

Kai Davis

Do you spend a lot of time in Zoom meetings? I do. And when the Zoom app dock showed up in a coaching call yesterday, my client and I were a bit flabbergasted. “WTF ?!” is a fair approximation of our reaction. Anyways, I poked around and found out how to turn it off. With the below magical incantations, the app dock should disappear for a while.

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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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Resolutions, again…

Chad Barr

Here we are on January 4, excited as the time when people who made New Year’s resolutions have either begun in earnest or have already had a misstep on one or more of their intended plans. In surfing the web for the most commonly made resolutions, I found some fascinating studies. According to Statista Global Consumer Survey, the top resolutions, ones we typically hear about, include exercise more, eat healthier, lose weight, and quitting smoking.

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Start taking advantage of these 5 trends for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

Running a small business? Read in this blog posts what's going to be important in 2023. Here are our small business trends for 2023. 1. Cash flow, cash flow, cash flow The economic climate is still unstable. Inflation-rates still are at an all-time high. Energy cost is a heavy burden for many businesses. In this economic climate, it remains critical for small business to stay on top of their cash flow.

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Make the Decision to Start the New Year Right

Makarios Consulting

Today, you as a leader may be thinking about one person on your team who just isn’t measuring up. Maybe it’s how they relate to other people – pure, plain toxicity. Perhaps it is their work – or lack of it. It could be their approach – such as a failure to conform to the company’s core values. Yet even now, in the midst of your frustration, your thoughts skitter away from addressing the issue.

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It’s that time when people start to talk about a new year. You might be entirely on board and curious about how work and leadership will be different in the future. But maybe you are feeling a bit resistant. Especially given the unpredictability of this past year, it is no surprise that you may feel skeptical about preparing for the future or even a bit exhausted by the idea.

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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.