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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

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. They have a defined niche that makes them easy to remember.

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How to Manage a More Experienced Direct Report

CaseInterview.com

I will be doing a training exercise in a few weeks where I’ll command an incident simulating a multiple-casualty situation after a major earthquake. That will increase their turnaround time for the work orders in their group by 70%. This is the situation that a good CEO strives for — to be the so-called “dumbest” person in the room.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Transformation and turnaround leader specialized in building teams, measurement systems, and driving results at distressed and growth companies alike, with a focus on the middle market. Translation: turnaround expert. Exercise #1: Look at Your History. Exercise #2: Get Input from Colleagues. That’s the hard part.

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4 Things End Users Want During Desk Relocation Projects

PM Alliance

Ensuring that technology resources are on hand during desk relocations can help address any glitches, particularly when checkerboard moves mean tight turnaround times. Your users are likely to consider these requests urgent. If users don’t like their new spot, your team is probably going to hear about it.

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

Asamby Consulting

Modern cashflow management tools make this exercise easy. Benefits include a favorable cost structure, easier access to talent and potentially quicker turnaround / longer coverage of business hours (e.g., In this economic climate, it remains critical for small business to stay on top of their cash flow. A spreadsheet will do as well.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. For example, he had one patient begin an exercise program by simply marching in place for one minute in front of the television. then two minutes, then three, etc.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.