Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 1, 2024

Here are three exercises to get you started. Exercise #1: Reflection. Exercise #2: Study Your Work History. Exercise #3: Get Input from Colleagues. Best regards, ~~~ These three exercises will help you identify your particular sweet spot. Pinpointing your niche is hard. What am I good at? What do I enjoy doing?

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David A Fields

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Unfortunately, handing off parts of your consulting practice proves increasingly difficult as you graduate from administrative tasks and low-level analytical exercises to high-value work that fits your personal … Continued The post 3 Mindsets + 2 Plans to Relieve Your Consulting Firm’s Growth Obstruction appeared first on David A.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2023

New research shows daily physical activity can even impact your creativity the next day.

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Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

By: Deborah Siegle Continuing from my prior posts on Bobbie LaPorte’s talk about how to balance your work and personal life, one of Bobbie’s Keys to Success is EXERCISE. First, Bobbie defined exercise in this context as planned, structured, repetitive, purposeful exercise. And, it’s never too late to start.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Will you be able to exercise more or eat a healthier diet? This may seem like a waste of time—like just a fluffy exercise—but trust me, it’s well worth taking the time to do it. For example, “I want to make at least X dollars a year,” or “I want to make enough money to pay for an amazing family vacation every year.”

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David A Fields

JULY 13, 2021

Sorta) There’s a straightforward exercise you can complete that will deliver the following benefits (and others) for your consulting firm over … Continued. How cool would it be if you could choose greater success for your consulting firm from a drop-down list?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Don’t create a plan. Create a system.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2022

Move beyond brainstorming.

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Consulthon

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Hi everyone, I am working for a client, doing a high-level assessment of their processes. I also need to do a heatmap of which processes are the most "eligible" to be improved at a later stage and.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2024

This article offers a series of questions that can help any leader evaluate and exercise their own strategic fitness.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2024

This article outlines practical strategies for exercising four types of active listening: emotional, informational, analytical, and reflective. We try to support our colleague by providing our opinion or offering a solution. Active listening can be hard to do, but it’s a great skill to practice.

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Simon Associates

JULY 20, 2022

Regular exercise improves our physical health, decreases our risk for severe health conditions and helps us feel better emotionally. But for many of us, our lives are so full that we don't know how to add exercise to our already packed days.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2024

And it’s an opportunity to exercise some intellectual humility, which includes having respect for other viewpoints, not being intellectually overconfident, separating your ego from your intellect, and being willing to revise your own viewpoint — especially in the face of new information.

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The goal of the exercise was to help people develop better team communication styles as an early part of the process of forming project teams. ” Well students got to role play that they were fishing together. They got to try different communication modes based on concepts from improv (e.g., “Yes, and”).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

While this exercise won’t take a lot of time, it may be psychically intensive. Many times clients have come back to me after completing this exercise and said, “Why didn’t anyone tell me this before? It only takes a couple well-worded questions to a few key people to get the information you need. (If

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UPD Consulting

JUNE 10, 2024

Memories of mandated, awkward exercises with your co-workers? And most importantly, it isn’t an exercise in shame or guilt. What do you think of when you hear “DEI training?” Or perhaps fear (of saying the wrong thing, hurting others, or being hurt yourself). Sadly, you’re not alone. At UPD, we know there’s another way.

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Steve Shu Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2017

Presuming that the focus on health is mostly on physical exercise and diet (versus mental health or social relationships), here are some things I’ve used to try to strike a balance: On the job, really focus on what is strategically important; try to cut bait or minimize involvement with small stuff that you shouldn’t sweat.

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Office Skills

MARCH 28, 2024

Multitasking : How to Handle Multiple Tasks in an Administrative Role Taking on an administrative role is an exercise in various technical and soft skill sets. In essence, you keep […] The post Multitasking Mastery appeared first on Office Skills Training.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

AUGUST 22, 2023

I recently had the opportunity to co-facilitate a client’s exercise on stress testing their business continuity plan. This client’s business continuity plan is in draft, so the exercise was important to not […] The post What Would We Do If… appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.

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MishTalk

APRIL 24, 2014

Tensions in Ukraine took another step for the worse today as Russia held military exercises on the border and Ukraine''s foreign minister responded " We are Ready to Fight Russia " Andriy Deshchytisa said Russia’s decision Thursday to launch the military exercises “very much escalates the situation in the region.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Once you can identify the five common manipulation tactics, you’ll be able to run through a protective mental exercise anytime a pitch for a product, idea, investment, or a course of action feels potentially inauthentic.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

Other participants were prompted to do a similar writing exercise, but about other values (including institutional ones). As part of our second study we asked a subset of participants how much self-doubt they felt approximately three weeks before their final exams (five weeks after they had completed the values writing exercise).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Three questions can help determine whether enough has been done: First, have you participated in a cyber tabletop exercise recently? Many have warned over the years of the growing cyber threats and some have offered thoughtful advice for how to strengthen an organization’s protection and resilience.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Like any muscle, to strengthen it, you must activate and exercise it. Building our curiosity muscle is essential because it will aid in the efficiency of leadership, enables continual learning, and because it’s a sought after skill by employers.

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In addition to learning about behavioral science theories in the digital age, students will then learn how to apply those key theoretical concepts through discussing actual, corporate case studies and participating in hands-on exercises related to nudging and experimental design. FinTech) settings.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 31, 2023

Marketing is an ongoing and continual activity Jeff has a hack about how to read while he's exercising! We discussed many things: Fees and why some clients want us to float their money and what to do instead. And more … I hope you watch this episode or listen on your podcast feed.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

In addition to learning about behavioral science theories in the digital age, students will then learn how to apply those key theoretical concepts through discussing actual, corporate case studies and participating in hands-on exercises related to nudging and experimental design. FinTech) settings.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 8, 2020

And in today's quick win, I want to really just give you an exercise that you can use to start imagining who that person is and how you create value for that individual. The Storyboard Exercise [04:02]. And here's my storyboard exercise. So hopefully this exercise is going to help you out and let me know how it works.

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Markovitz Consulting

MARCH 9, 2021

Without a connection to a desired business outcome, training becomes a strictly academic exercise that will be forgotten after the next bite of a danish. In my experience, the half-life of classroom knowledge is somewhat shorter than the time it takes employees to walk from the conference room back to their offices.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

Striking the right balance between these two extremes is a tricky exercise for leaders. Saying nothing can undermine people’s trust in your motives and compassion, whereas saying too much can leave people feeling overwhelmed and vulnerable as they struggle to process the information and implications.

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Most business vision exercises are farsighted. If you’d like to shake the rust off your consulting firm and jump-start fast moving progress, shift your gaze from the lofty peaks that will take years to ascend to a nearby hill you can crest now. They create plenty of clarity around a long-term vision, but the near-in [ ]

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The Management Centre

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Health: are you getting enough exercise and sleep, how is your diet? If you want to do more exercise, set a goal of going for a walk at lunchtime, or a 20-minute run after work. Social life: are you spending time when you are not working doing the things you enjoy, or with the people you really like to be with?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark Kilby explained his Compass Exercise for how he starts converting activities. You can see a version of that here: Converting Exercises for Online Facilitation – the Jumpstart Storytelling Exercise. Okay, what did I miss?? Ask away in the comments.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Don’t waste management’s or associates’ time with pointless exercises that doesn’t help anyone to improve. At worst, it’s employee abuse, given that they might very well be evaluated (rewarded or penalized) for these scores. Starbucks: if you’re going to measure performance, then do it properly. That’s just torture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2023

It’s critical to schedule time for simulated exercises and “scrimmages.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2019

All it takes is a piece of paper and three questions.

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Strategy+Business

APRIL 4, 2017

Avoid fumbling the response to a crisis by fully participating in on-the-ground trainings.

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