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The Little Known Strategy for Becoming an Executive Advisor

Consulting Matters

Executive leadership is all about the management of power and because of this foundational reality - the advisors that succeed has to be able to stand in their own. The website creation process isn't some "check the box" exercise. ” Get my Free Value Proposition Creation Video Training! as little as 90 days.

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

companies spend over $70 billion annually on training, and an average of $1,459 per salesperson — almost 20 percent more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing.

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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. They’re Not.

Harvard Business

This research project is still in progress, but we wanted to offer a glimpse into our methodology and initial findings. In total, 98 people who were enrolled in an MBA course on leadership training participated, with a variety of backgrounds and jobs. years of leadership experience. years of leadership experience.

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Most Managers Don’t Know How to Coach People. But They Can Learn.

Harvard Business

This research project is still in progress, but we wanted to offer a glimpse into our methodology and initial findings. In total, 98 people who were enrolled in a course on leadership training participated, with a variety of backgrounds and jobs. years of leadership experience. years of leadership experience.

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business

In most cases, that budget level produces a small innovation team that may be doing some concept development work, trend scouting, or training employees on innovation methodologies — but isn’t having a broad impact on the company.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. 3 – Training stakeholders to support growth.