Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2022

I made the leap to independent consulting in 2004 and never looked back. In my years as a solopreneur, my monthly income ranged from $5,000 to $28,000. That said, if you contribute to a solo 401(k) or SEP-IRA, you can pay less in tax if you earn more than $100,000 per year. Being a self-employed solopreneur isn’t for everyone.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Did Steve want some sort of team improvement that didn't jibe with reality ? Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. Managers can support their teams in many ways. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. The team's fixes cycle time.

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So we asked Rachel Whittle , L&D Consultant, what helped her get started in her role and what insight she has to share. Starting a new job always comes with a mix of excitement and trepidation, as you wonder what it’s going to be like. Working in multiple locations also comes with its own challenges. Here are her top 5 tips: 1.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams. Ask for help.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You might not be surprised—she was one of the two professors I learned the most from. (I I was surprised by how few women programmers I met, just a decade after I graduated from university. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. All their rewards arose from solo work.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 15, 2022

The Acme Corp senior leadership team is thrilled that they can bring people back to the office. That team decided that everyone would be back in the office on Mondays and Thursdays. ” Several teams asked questions about meeting rooms and the availability of those rooms. Why Mondays and Thursdays? Face-palm.).

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 25, 2021

If you want to level up your business and act as your strategic business consultant, I strongly encourage you to start regularly practicing Quarterly Business Reviews. If you want to level up your business and act as your strategic business consultant, I strongly encourage you to start regularly practicing Quarterly Business Reviews.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 20, 2022

Our team costs will rise by at least 30%. “As for offshoring, let's discuss that once we know how to create collaborative teams.” ” “Aren't the teams working as fast as they can now?” That means people are busy all the time, but on their work, not on the flow of the team's work. “Fine.

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What does it mean to apply growth marketing principles, but from a mindset of abundance (e.g., want to stay independent and solo, with a small team of contractors, but not employees? But there are inflection points in every business where it’s harder and harder to grow and scale when you’re 100% solo. Business growth.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

I’m going to suggest that A Players are team members with a strong goal-orientation and a relentless drive to keep pushing forward till the objective is met. They are also likable experts who can work solo or thrive in a team environment. B Players are not necessarily a stepping stone from A status.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2018

Working from home can be a coveted perk, allowing you to opt out of rush-hour traffic and eliminate the tedious banalities of office life. But it can also cut you off from the spontaneous interactions that can spark new insights (part of the reason Marissa Mayer famously rescinded Yahoo’s telecommuting policies). Remote Work.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often? What should you focus on first? And what should you do if you lose a sale?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

How do we reward someone based on individual work when we want teams to work together? The performance review problem helps them realize the source of this disconnect: How can we focus on aperson's solo contributions to the work when we want to encourage and retain collaboration? Became a consultant. What do we do?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

You and Your Team Series. Returning to our engineering manager, she might assign client communication for a key customer to her head programmer to deepen his exposure to business issues and to more fully leverage his naturally consultative style. Has returning to work after your vacation left you feeling less than refreshed?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 31, 2023

See the Book Birthday post for Successful Independent Consulting.) Here are some examples, using my books: Successful Independent Consulting has one ideal reader: the solo entrepreneur as a consultant. Not all entrepreneurs, although many of them would benefit from this book. Instead, think of a book as a product.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 2, 2023

Launching a podcast can feel overwhelming if you're doing it by yourself, but you don't have to do it alone. Since 2009, Buzzsprout has helped over 300,000 podcasters launch their podcast, and we've used everything we've learned to create this guide. Follow these tips to narrow your niche and clarify your message.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A Scrum Master asked, “How can I engage my team during a remote retrospective? That's because teams need safety for engagement. I still see team members who use their computer's built-in microphone and speakers. One guy introduced his piano and treated the team to an impromptu jazz solo. ” I do.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2020

” Or, someone gets pulled off to work on production support issues and is no longer available to the team for weeks. The teams can recover. The teams have little resilience. The teams take weeks at a time to recover. Teams can build resilience in many ways. The team has long feedback loops.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We create these positions to check that the teams don't try to implement something “wrong.” We can create small experiments and learn from them. This image, from Agile and Lean Program Management , shows a small-world network. The teams on the upper left have fewer connections. I'm sure he or she does.

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Tsavo Neal

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Web design for a consulting firm instead of an independent consultant is more similar than it is different — but the differences are important to note. In this article, I feature 12-15 of the best boutique consulting firm websties, and how these websites attract and develop new business for each firm.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring. Choose Mentees Carefully.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

You decided to put your consulting career on the front burner. Those important items that are eluding you are: Team Technology. As your career progressed you were moved from team to team. You may have decided to change companies but once again you were assigned to a team. Solos don’t have teams.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

They return results based on information aggregated from a compendium of sources that have been indexed over the years. During performance evaluations, 360-degree approaches and those that elicit feedback from multiple sources provide opportunities for growth and advancement. Always On = Burnout Yes, AI never sleeps.

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