LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Executive selling training professionals have lots of advice on how to sell to an executive when you have a half-hour on stage or in person. Before you even begin, however, you need to do your pre-call sales planning and research – as much research as if you had several hours scheduled to make your pitch. Preparation.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2016

It’s because one of my top three tenets regarding preparing a business for sale is to show growth. My work mentoring consultants always focuses on generating clients, i.e. making a sale to create revenue. The business owner who was his main bottleneck because he refused to train anybody to do certain tasks. “I

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Geoff Moore’s Crossing the Chasm detailed the concept of the ‘Technology Adoption Lifecycle’ which provided guidelines for marketing disruptive technologies; aligning messaging and marketing strategies with target audience profiles, from early adopters and early majority through late majority markets and technology adoption laggards.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

If you are confronted with the necessity of making a major change in your business, here are four guidelines for leading change that will help make 2021 a great year. Give an update on sales, revenue, customer satisfaction, productivity, or whatever metrics are most beneficial to show the company’s progress.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

If you are confronted with the necessity of making a major change in your business, here are four guidelines for leading change that will help make 2021 a great year. Give an update on sales, revenue, customer satisfaction, productivity, or whatever metrics are most beneficial to show the company’s progress.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Interestingly, however, we were trained at MBB that doing a project for more time gets you NOWHERE. After years of doing what we do (trainings/guest lectures/creating materials on case interviews), we noticed a distinct lack of practical tools designed to help people understand how consultants approach business. 1 – Market Sizing.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

According to the Department of Justice’s review guidelines , vertical mergers pose far less risk of consumer harm than mergers of competing, or horizontal, firms. Time Warner is all about content, while AT&T is focused on distribution. Their combination is what antitrust experts refer to as a vertical merger.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

China has unveiled the much-awaited guidelines for reform of its bloated state-owned enterprise sector as the latest official data show its economy continuing to slow. China Announces SOE Shakeup As a proposed remedy to this mess, China Plans Shake-Up of State-Owned Enterprises to Boost Growth.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

A week ago, they told me they decided not to hire me, and would do the facilitator training themselves. Basic Guidelines to Quickly Gain Credibility, Get Projects – and Be Paid. Describe general guidelines, but not procedures. If you’ve followed the above guidelines, then a proposal (or Statement of Work) should be easy.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 13, 2017

The first two were clearly only interested in making a sale that benefitted them, so I moved on. To achieve this favorable reputation for yourself, keep the following guidelines in mind. When you have these qualities, people are willing to come back again and again – creating a Win-Win.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

The following links are to free, online resources with guidelines to address the considerations and in the right order. Training and Development. A list of the detailed considerations would comprise numerous blog posts — and there’s already many books about how to start a consulting business. Product Development.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

It helps internals to appreciate and apply the many guidelines for consultants, as well. Often these internal consultants are in large organizations and from training and development or human resource departments. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. What Is an External Consultant?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms. Data science for machines: here the consumers of the output are computers which consume data in the form of training data, models, and algorithms. Modeling scientist: Models, training data, algorithms. They are modeling scientists.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

To understand a product’s sales potential, executives want industry-specific indicators. For example, if a company sells toothbrushes, it uses toothbrush sales forecasts to determine yearly targets. If official numbers contradict your understanding of the market and actual sales performance, do not ignore it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In high-performance environments, guidelines empower leaders to use their personal judgment to make decisions. Once promoted, there was limited investment in their leadership training. Again, expectations and guidelines work better for thinking adults than black-and-white rules and steps.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

For example, Duke has promotion tracks specifically for faculty with clinical service and educational focuses to their careers, providing tenure-track guidelines for advancement from assistant all the way to full professor. Men and women alike should work to enhance gender diversity in leadership.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 16, 2018

When a conversation starts, following your guidelines is the key. Make sure it’s not a sales pitch. While crisis simulations make great training exercises once an organization has developed their crisis ready program, they can also be a stimulating way to help you gain that buy-in. This struggle is real. I see it all the time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

This entails identifying whether exposure to a certain promotion, ad, or specific touchpoint (such as a sales encounter) for a demographic can generate future sales. With the right guidelines in place, there’s a much greater potential for geolocation data that remains untapped.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Clearly define roles and responsibilities among marketing, customer service, public relations, sales, corporate communication, human resources, etc.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

” Nobody wants to produce boring presentations that waste everybody’s time, but they do; nobody wants to train machine learning algorithms that produce misleading predictions, but they will. Crudely put, where active machine learning has people training machines, passive machine learning has machines training people.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

He simply tracked the sales of riot-related components such as crowbars and flammable fluids from major hardware outlets and looked for spikes in purchases that exceeded a certain threshold. One would have thought it was from comprehensive analyses of complex demographics and collections of red-flag news indicators of social discontent.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 3, 2010

The general guideline I use is — the greater the change, the lower the predictability; therefore we have to attend to the impact of the change on the total system. Training and Development. Then there are the Low impact changes, small changes in people and processes where predictability is pretty accurate. Truisms About Change.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

She was training a new project manager, Donna (not her real name), who had more experience than she did and “wasn’t necessarily pleased to be taking direction,” Karen recalls. “I stressed how important it was to follow the guidelines — and included the reasoning behind each process,” she recalls.

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