David A Fields

JUNE 4, 2024

You’re missing important (perhaps breakthrough) ideas that could catapult your consulting firm’s success forward. You see a guy on the street wearing a tinfoil hat. Naturally, you ask, “Dude, what’s up with the hat?” “It staves off all disease,” he responds. “That’s ridiculous,” you confidently counter. After all, even though you’re not a physician, you … Continued The post From Absurd to Ingenious: How to Quickly Unearth Breakthrough Ideas for Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David

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Successful Independent Consulting

JUNE 1, 2024

Everyone knows that consulting can be hard to sell because it’s often perceived as expensive and too theoretical. To combat this bias, demystify your process. Using work samples and deliverables to show prospects how you do what you do will go a long way toward eliminating their skepticism. Samples can be anything that will help a potential client get an idea of how you work and what you will produce for them.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 30, 2024

Do you prioritize health and wellness to boost performance as a consultant or coach? Picture this: You’re hustling hard, chasing those dreams, but somewhere along the way, you start feeling drained, overwhelmed, and downright exhausted. Sound familiar? Well, my friend, you’re not alone. In my latest episode of the Enough Already podcast, I had an amazing conversation with Julie Griffin , an executive wellness coach, on the surprising link between wellness and consulting or coaching b

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2024

In recent years, the consulting industry has witnessed a significant shift, with boutique consulting firms emerging as competition against their larger counterparts. This trend towards specialization and personal service is reshaping the landscape, offering clients a unique blend of niche expertise, agility, competitive pricing, and strong relationships that big-name consultancies struggle to match.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2024

As you’re navigating hybrid work, it’s a good moment to assess how your onboarding processes enable or empower your new hires to thrive. Researchers at Microsoft have conducted and identified studies that suggest that onboarding to a new role, team, or company is a key moment for building connections with the new manager and team and doing so a few days in person provides unique benefits.

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Chad Barr

JUNE 5, 2024

As we approach the midpoint of 2024, I am frequently asked about the future of web strategies and content creation. Based on current trends, here are my predictions and insights for the coming months through 2025: AI Integration : As AI tools become more advanced, analyzing and predicting customer behaviors and preferences will become essential. This will enable us to provide highly personalized services, enhancing engagement and satisfaction.

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Girard Training Solutions

JUNE 4, 2024

Unless you plan on not sleeping and not taking vacations, you will need to leverage effective delegation to offload some of your tasks to your team. Remember, your job is to achieve results through others, not be a hero or martyr. From my experience, trying to do everything yourself will leave you exhausted and hinder your ability to achieve great results.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

I've seen a number of posts recently saying that micromanagement isn't as bad as we might think it is. Instead, micromanagement might actually help the person who's the subject of that micromanagement. Sorry, no. Well, not sorry at all. Still No. Heck, NO. NO to all micromanagement. If any manager has micromanaged you, you know exactly how you felt.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2024

Despite all that one-on-one meetings can offer, they can be challenging to navigate, whether you’re new to management or have spent several years in a leadership role. Here some signs that your one-on-ones have gone stale, are unproductive, or are falling short of their potential: you don’t want to go to the meeting, you always go over time, you can’t fill the time, you leave every meeting feeling deflated, or you and your direct report are both on second screens.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 30, 2024

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Harmonious Workplaces

JUNE 1, 2024

The Transformative Power of Level 5 Leadership to Create Inclusive and High-Performing Teams The most effective leaders in my career have communicated a vision, had a plan, embraced the mission, and recognized the team’s work above their own contribution. These became some of my favorite places to work, and I still maintain some of these […] The post Humble Leaders Foster Belongingness and Inclusivity appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2024

Cultural Hierarchy at Work Matters Today’s leaders face incredible challenges and pressures. As the rate of change increases, an organization’s ability to adapt becomes paramount to its success. Yet, our change management simulation data tells us that most change initiatives do not meet original expectations. Why? Because change management consulting experts know that sustainable organizational change means changing the hearts and minds of people – a notoriously tricky and eclectic group.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 31, 2024

My 60 seconds this week is from the speaking book. I think I might have a working title now. That might even help me finish the book faster. (That's good, because I have a lot more writing I want to finish!) Enjoy! Watch the video for my eye rolls. The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for May 31, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2024

Your boss points out what’s going wrong more often than what’s going right. They nitpick your work, highlighting every possibility for improvement. Meetings sometimes feel like inquisitions. While a generally difficult boss might be challenging due to their mood swings, lack of clarity, or unpredictability, a highly critical boss consistently focuses on “the gap,” not the gain.

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Girard Training Solutions

JUNE 4, 2024

On today’s Management Development Unlocked, Eric interviews his former colleague Melissa Sheehan, a marketing expert based in San Francisco, California. Melissa currently works in the talent marketing and employer brand space for a global technology company, where she helps attract and engage employees. Melissa’s background spans various areas of marketing, ranging from brand to communications, demand generation, and talent marketing.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

This question is a trap. It’s based on scarcity and entitlement, and most of all, the world isn’t listening. When more and more people focus on this question, it simply pushes us apart. On the other hand, “what do I owe the world?” opens the door for endless opportunity. When lots of people ask this question, the contributions add up, the connections are solidified and better is possible.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

JUNE 2, 2024

Imagine turning every setback into a stepping stone for growth and innovation. In this episode, we unpack insights from Amy Schoenthal and talk about her new book, "The Setback Cycle." We discuss her personal journey from marketing to leadership, and illustrate how curiosity and self-awareness can transform life's challenges into opportunities for success.

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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 3, 2024

Why is it important to care about what workers want? And how can leaders help them succeed? Well even with the onslaught of AI and massive change researchers are saying that we will continue to be in need of workers from now until 2030 and beyond. In today’s work environment, understanding what workers want is […] The post What Workers Want And How Leaders Can Help Them Succeed appeared first on NextMapping.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2024

In a mentorship, having clear boundaries — along with responses to share when those limits are transgressed — is important for safeguarding your mental health, your privacy, and your productivity. To establish them, have a conversation with your mentor, preferably at the start of the relationship. You can start by flipping the script and asking your mentor about their boundaries first: “Since this is all new, though, I wanted to ask: What boundaries do you want to have around our mentoring relat

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MAY 30, 2024

Read the latest issue of the Customer Strategist Journal. As a writer, one of my biggest challenges is facing a blank page (or screen) before I start writing. How should I start? What should I say? That blank canvas anxiety was all but eliminated with the introduction of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. I can ask them to summarize a theme or start an article about XYZ.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 30, 2024

There’s often doubt. Giving someone the benefit of that doubt enables us to move forward, and that requires us to realize that our doubt might be unfounded. Systems that assume goodwill create possibility, connection and utility far easier than those that don’t. Being invited to find a place in those systems is a privilege worth earning.

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Strategic buy-in and strategy execution hinges on the ability to measure success accurately and transparently. Designing the right strategy success metrics can mean the difference between a leadership team collectively steering toward its strategic targets and veering off course.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Every podcast hosting platform will help you get your podcast online, create an RSS Feed, and get into the top podcast directories like Apple Podcasts and Spotify. But the beauty of podcasting is that there are so many options. Some podcast hosts focus on private podcasting, while others focus on video podcasts, their WordPress integration, or making it easy for beginner podcasters.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2024

A critical but often overlooked part of the recruiting and hiring process happens before the job description is posted — or even created. Hiring managers should conduct a thorough assessment of their team’s current skills, aspirations, and culture to make sure they’re courting candidates with the skill sets and capabilities will truly add value to the team and organization — both now and in the future.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2024

Managers struggling to implement hybrid work policies confront three key challenges: scheduling, culture, and productivity. Research into companies allowing employees to be both remote and in-person suggest these obstacles can be overcome. In scheduling, shift to a focus not on how often workers are in, but which activities are better done in the office.

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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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