Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

At some point all consultants will be on the hook to lead a senior team meeting. Meetings get such a bad rap now and are perceived as a waste of time either because they lack purpose, focus or exceptional facilitator who is able to draw together and synthesize disparate perspectives. Why is this meeting taking place?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 11, 2023

Tim, a C-Level leader, loves his skip-level meetings. He feels the meetings offer him a chance to connect with people he doesn't normally see. Sharon, a different C-Level leader, never conducts skip-level meetings. She feels that those meetings might cause her managers to feel unsafe, as if she doesn't trust them.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. A scenario like this leaves people feeling their time is being wasted in meetings, which makes them disengaged.

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Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Meetings should have as few people as possible, but all the right people. Scharf You’re wondering who should be in each meeting, are you? But here’s the thing - big meetings make people sad. Most of us know how frustrating it is to sit through a meeting where you belong about as much as a vegan belongs in Texas.

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Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation. Jason Fried So, what if after doing all of this, you still find yourself in too many meetings with not enough time to get your work done? Good luck with that!

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fun activities to include in your online team meetings. Fun activities in team meetings can help our team members connect to each and remind them of all the brilliant people they have on their side. You can include a fun activity in every team meeting if you like but keep it short and focused. Don’t make them a competition.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

Whether it’s how your group comes together to collaborate on project budget development or the systems you use to maintain stakeholder engagement, a willingness to blend new and old methods gives you wider access to options that can lead to the perfect strategy for your unique situation.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

The only thing worse than a poorly run meeting is a poorly run meeting filled with people who are behaving poorly. So how do you get people to bring their best selves to meetings? Run a great meeting. And we just happen to know a consulting firm than can come in and help you learn to run great meetings!)

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

The purpose of B2B marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients. And you do that by meeting more people and getting to know them. When I got my first clients in San Francisco, where I started my business, I sent out letters to members of the SF Chamber of Commerce and then followed up by phone for meetings.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

Meetings can’t just stop because work teams are now distributed. As we learn to adjust to the new working conditions that the COVID-19 pandemic has created, it’s important that leadership teams upgrade their toolbelts, including the skills needed to run effective and enjoyable remote meetings. Find a technology that meets these needs.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Meet Sheila. Sheila doesn’t have a terrific network in the industry you’re targeting and she’s never worked with a consulting firm; however, she’s proven she can open doors and get meetings. Fields Consulting Group. She’s a sales wizard. Fearless, charismatic, bright, resilient, persistent. … Continued. … Continued.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections?

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

How to Have Effective and Enjoyable Workplace Meetings This meeting started 10 minutes late. Can we just get this meeting started already? I literally have no clue what we’re meeting about. Boy, do I have a lot of work to get done that I’m not doing as I sit here in my fifth meeting of the week. It’s Tuesday.)

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 14, 2015

I was grateful for the recent opportunity to talk with Heather Tortorello, the talent growth director at Vivaldi Partners Group. Tom: Vivaldi Partners Group consists of three specialty practice areas: Vivaldi Partners, your strategic consulting firm; Fifth Season, your creative powerhouse; and. Heather Tortorello: Good question.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. Four-hour meetings? Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.”

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate more effectively – and reduce stress and fatigue. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back. It’s not an abstraction — quite the opposite.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2015

I recently had the chance to talk with Stephanie Green, Manager of Talent Acquisition for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at IMS Consulting Group. If you have an interest in life sciences, either through your studies or previous work experience, then IMS Consulting Group could be the perfect place to enhance and grow your career.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2022

For example, it can be hard to create the same dynamic during an online meeting since the majority of the meaning in our communication is conveyed via body language. In groups that are unfamiliar with one another, it is not uncommon to have prolonged periods of silence where each participant fears being the first to speak.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Large companies are striving to increase their purchases from small, diverse-owned businesses (SDBs) — those that are 51% or more owned and operated by an individual or group that is part of a historically underrepresented or underserved group (e.g., Despite their pledges, they are struggling to meet their goals.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

There are many problems with the way most meetings are run. In an effort to not make anyone feel left out, they unknowingly decrease the quality of the meeting. When well-intended managers are too inclusive with their meeting invites: There is not enough time for everyone to participate in the conversation. vgajic/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

There’s a lot of advice out there about how to make meetings more efficient and productive. And while it’s true that leading focused, deliberate conversations is critical to organizational performance, meetings aren’t just about delivering results. What is a quality experience in a meeting? Roger Schwarz.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 11, 2024

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” The president did nothing to stop the yelling.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Others have tuned the meeting out, retreating to their laptops or phones. At the end of the meeting, the only real outcome is the decision to schedule a follow-up meeting with a smaller group — a group that can actually make some decisions and execute on them. Others won’t stop talking.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

In a work culture with too many meetings, we often look for tactics to get out of meetings. But sometimes you need to get into a meeting, perhaps because the decisions made there will have implications for you or your team, or maybe because you feel you’ve been left out of important discussions. MINCHU/Getty Images.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 14, 2023

Consulting masterminds — or, a consulting mastermind group — is a collection of entrepreneurial consultants who share insights, knowledge, and experience to help each other. By the end of this article, you’ll learn… what a consulting mastermind group is; the benefits.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

Katherine steps up and displays not only her math brilliance, but also her presence — both of which would not have been revealed to the rest of the group unless she was put on the spot. In most organizations, being called out during a meeting is not the norm. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

We all complain about meetings. My boss doesn’t lead meetings effectively. Most of our meetings are just passing along information that could easily be sent in an email. We keep having the same conversations because nothing gets done between meetings. Martin Poole/Getty Images. We have too many. Nothing gets done.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

The modern workplace is awash in meetings, many of which are terrible. As a result, people mostly hate going to meetings. The problem is this: The whole point of meetings is to have discussions that you can’t have any other way. And yet most meetings are devoid of real debate.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I'd encourage you to do your homework on the type of work each office does and meet the specific people you may be likely to work with, rather than debate which firm is better. Once again congratulations on your two offers -- very exciting. Additional Resources.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

If your meetings are unproductive, this might be the reason.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

Upon entering a meeting, she recommends, do “a quick scan of the individuals,” noting “who’s next to whom, who’s smiling, who’s not, who’s standing, who’s sitting, and how much space is between people.” At the same time, you shouldn’t project your feelings onto the group.

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Gina Abudi

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Diversity within the organization enables for a variety of benefits, including creativity and innovation in: Solving problems of the business New products and services for customers Additionally, diversity enables for better meeting the needs of customers – who are often diverse themselves.

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Billable Percentage

MARCH 14, 2017

Here’s the quote: Meetings are expensive. Based on that comment, it’s become clear to me that too much of the time, we take a passive approach to meetings that waste everyone’s time and money. As such, I think it’s incumbent on us all to hold more effective meetings. Start on Time and End on Time.

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Action Plan

MARCH 5, 2024

Soon after, I started my high-end group programs, and they were filling to capacity. So, I cut back the group programs along with my income and settled into working with people at a slower pace and enjoying life in my home in the redwoods with a river in my backyard. I had published the InfoGuru Manual, and sales were strong.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

If you think that your boss is ineffective at leading meetings, you are not alone. Few managers or supervisors have mastered the art of meetings and even fewer organizations have made it a priority. You have a right to ask for whatever you need to be effective in the meeting. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

I had sat with over 100 focus group participants and heard story after story about the impact of the company's unethical sales practices on their lives. Use your initial discovery meetings as a way to connect, not sell. Guard your heart and mind before you do interviews and focus groups. That's a good thing.

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