David A Fields
MAY 21, 2024
Whether you’re a long-time reader or you’ve recently started perusing these articles, you’ve probably grumbled at least once… “Hold on a second… David built a lucrative, consulting practice by layering chocolate references and obscure puns on top of illustrations my seven year-old could draw? Some of those line drawings don’t even make sense!
Consulting Matters
MAY 23, 2024
How Business Resilience Turns Setbacks into Opportunities Growing a consulting or coaching business can be stressful and full of setbacks. Between learning how to build a brand and market yourself, while juggling clients and projects, it can feel overwhelming. Putting yourself out there with content, social media posting, and asking for referrals that lead to nowhere can feel discouraging.
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Consulting Success
MAY 24, 2024
Are you limiting your business development activities to only attracting new clients? The easiest sale you will ever make in consulting will be to someone who already knows you, likes you, and trusts you — that includes your previous and current clients. At Consulting Success®, we teach the consultants in our Clarity Coaching Program to.
Tom Spencer
MAY 24, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of the global economy, businesses face a myriad of challenges that demand resilience, adaptability, and strategic planning. Economic uncertainties, recessions, and unforeseen disruptions can shake the foundations of even the most robust enterprises. Navigating these economic challenges requires a proactive approach that combines strategic foresight and a commitment to innovation.
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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.
Harvard Business
MAY 23, 2024
The problem with strategy frameworks is that although they can help you determine whether an opportunity is attractive or whether a given strategy is likely to work, they generally don’t help you in the task of identifying the opportunity or crafting the strategy in the first place. This article introduces a framework, built on an in-depth analysis of the creativity literature, that aims to fill that gap by providing a systematic approach to identifying potential strategies.
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Harmonious Workplaces
MAY 24, 2024
Fairer Methods Exist for Recruiting People Over Years Worked Experience counts. However, limiting the value experience brings for the perceived sake of salary savings devalues an organization’s potential. I recalled a few years ago; I interviewed for about five rounds with a manufacturing company based in Europe that specialized in a tool-honing device.
LSA Global
MAY 23, 2024
Effective Coaching and Feedback from Managers at Work Matters Effective coaching and feedback from managers at work nurtures talent, enhances performance, boosts engagement, and fosters continuous growth. Ineffective coaching and feedback at work creates ambiguity, drives disengagement , and increases risk. Based upon people manager assessment and organizational culture assessment data a few pivotal elements need to be in place for coaching and feedback to have influence.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
MAY 22, 2024
We all know developing a strategic plan is hard. We also know, implementing a strategic plan successfully is brutal. So don’t make your implementation process more difficult than it already will be. Keep it simple and focused on the results you want. Don’t make your implementation process more difficult than it already will be. Keep […] The post Don’t Overcomplicate Your Strategic Plan Implementation appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.
Harvard Business
MAY 24, 2024
For all the communication around strategy, we know that leaders at many companies don’t provide the necessary context for employees to understand what the words and sentences in a strategy statement actually mean. What can leaders do to help employees understand enough context to understand a strategy? In this article, the authors offer three recommendations: 1) Present the alternatives considered and explain why they were not adopted. 2) Explain how each choice is linked to the organization’s p
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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
Johanna Rothman
MAY 21, 2024
When I wrote Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management , I included this chart, the Iterations Content Chart as part of a possible dashboard. I created that chart to clarify the challenges a specific team faced. They had problems with multitasking and the inevitable changes. The first way to use an iteration contents chart is to gather data and answer questions.
Harmonious Workplaces
MAY 22, 2024
A Lesson from Church That Inspired Hope At the risk of being criticized for publishing religion within a business publication, I wanted to share some thoughts from this last weekend. We celebrated the Feast of Pentecost in the Catholic Church last Sunday, May 19, 2024. Throughout most of my life prior to my 40s, I […] The post Three Spiritual Keys to Living Your Purpose appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
Girard Training Solutions
MAY 24, 2024
As companies diversify their talent, managers face new challenges in leading individuals with diverse personality types, opinions, values, and behaviors. The goal is to build a high-performance team and bring out the best in your employees by embracing their different traits, strengths, and weaknesses. This is where personality-based assessments, like the DiSC® Model, come into play.
Office Skills
MAY 22, 2024
Excel is great for working with numbers and math. In this lesson, you will improve your office skills by learning how to create a formula in Excel. You will open […] The post How to Create a Formula in Excel appeared first on Office Skills Training.
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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.
Harvard Business
MAY 21, 2024
With any significant change in your career comes the need for new skills. But that’s even more true when you want a radical career change. In these situations, it’s going to take more than listening to a few webinars to build the knowledge you need get to where you want to go. You must set aside a significant amount of time for self-directed learning, formal training, or even a second job to gain the skills for the big leap.
Chad Barr
MAY 22, 2024
In a world where countless businesses are vying for attention, distinguishing yourself from the competition has never been more critical. Standing out is the difference between thriving and merely surviving. Here’s why it’s essential for your business and how you can achieve it. Why Standing Out is Critical Attract Attention: Without standing out, you risk becoming the best-kept secret that no one knows about.
Alan Weiss
MAY 22, 2024
When you can’t pay your bills as they come in, or you deliberately wait until the current billing cycle on your credit card is over, you have a problem. It might be insufficient cash flow, or insufficient savings, or a basic poverty mentality, but it’s a problem nonetheless. Don’t you demand that your clients pay immediately? (If not, you have another problem.
Nash Consulting
MAY 21, 2024
Mastering Post-Training Sustainability: Strategies to Maintain Organizational Change By Nash Consulting Successfully planning and implementing robust training in an organization isn’t a small feat. The conclusion of the training can feel like a major victory lap. But when the excitement of a successful training program fades and people get back into the daily routine, it can begin to overshadow the new skills and insights we've acquired.
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Effective Managers
MAY 20, 2024
In the rapidly changing world of management consulting, keeping pace with industry advancements is crucial. ISO 20700 training has emerged as a vital tool for consultants eager to amplify their influence and foster their professional development. More than just an enhancement to your skill set, this training offers a transformative journey that can reshape your approach to consultancy.
Harvard Business
MAY 22, 2024
Research shows that people feel more pressured to agree to requests than we realize, frequently agreeing to do things they would rather not do, such as taking on burdensome, low-promotability work tasks. As a manager, what can you do to ensure that your employees aren’t taking things on because they feel like they have to, but because they actually want to?
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 26, 2024
Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The meanings of both clauses change over time… Play fair: Everyone gets an opportunity to participate, from the very beginning Leave your campsite cleaner than you found it Take responsibility for the effects and side effects of your work Don’t seek monopoly power The long-term is the point Show your work and bring transparency to the market Don’t be a jerk Give others the benefit of the d
Girard Training Solutions
MAY 21, 2024
Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Alexa Chilcutt, a professor of executive education at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Texas Christian University. Alexa is also an executive coach who works one-on-one with professionals and is an expert on executive presence. Eric and Alexa focus on executive presence (EP) in this episode, defining it and naming some of its personality traits.
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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
LSA Global
MAY 27, 2024
How to Make Better Performance Improvement Plans When implemented correctly, better Performance Improvement Plans (also called PIPs) can be essential tools for enhancing employee performance, supporting a high performance culture , and achieving organizational goals. When implemented incorrectly, Performance Improvement Plans can cause employee disengagement , insecurity, and stress.
Leadership Vision Consulting
MAY 26, 2024
Happy Memorial Day! In this episode, we take a brief pause from our regular schedule to honor the holiday and reflect on the importance of collaboration. Instead of a new episode, we’re excited to re-share a valuable episode from 2021 that delves deep into the nuances of collaboration—a topic that has become increasingly relevant for us at Leadership Vision.
Harvard Business
MAY 20, 2024
The creator economy has given many young people an opportunity to eschew a more traditional career path and monetize their talents via social media. But, what if, you’ve discovered your priorities have evolved and you are now considering a job in the business world? The daunting process of reassessing your goals and then converting your value to this new space can feel overwhelming.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 22, 2024
If you’re sitting on the dock, watching the swim class without getting wet, it’s more accurate to say, “I’m just watching.” There are plenty of theories on how different people learn. Online, we’re in the middle of the biggest learning experiment in history, with countless videos, podcasts and interactive courses teaching just about anything.
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Just because we're working with a distributed team doesn't mean we have to abandon time-tested tools and methods like whiteboarding. Digital look-alikes often cramp creativity and all but eliminate the humanity of shared interactions. Hardware solutions are also limiting and, of course, expensive and immobile. In an increasingly digital and remote-first world, it’s important for us to select tools and processes that allow us to mitigate if not eliminate the above problems.
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