Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language. How to determine your new rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. Photo 50727473 / Piggy Bank © David Franklin | Dreamstime.com. for year three.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

It's the lack of words that keeps websites from getting launched and marketing tactics from getting implemented. It's the lack of words that keeps websites from getting launched and marketing tactics from getting implemented. I'm also NOT going to show you how to convince a client about something you want them to want.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 31, 2023

Their email address gives me an immediate impression of how serious they are about their business. Over the years I’ve noticed that consultants who use a personal email address tend to charge less than the consultants with a business email address. Here are two easy options for getting a business email address, though many exist.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ten steps for demonstrating your value.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language to use when notifying your clients. How to determine your new rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. With the new year just a few weeks away, now might be the time.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language to use. How to determine your new billing rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. In my example of $150 hourly, a 5% annual increase works out to $157.50

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The Fearless Marketer

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The problem is, we communicate without noticing if we are expressing features or benefits in our messages. Benefits are what THEY GET. So, to make it super-simple, we’ll start with this color-coded persuasion chart: How you use this is simple, but subtle. We show you what to do and how you do it so you get this result.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Politics gets its bad rap when leaders operate out of self-interest versus the best interest of others. Who gets the most "positive press"? What types of new ideas get noticed? Which departments get alone with one another? Which leaders get along with each other? How are decisions really made?

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 30, 2022

stock options) Most fun/exciting/satisfying However, many people get stuck on primary decision-making criteria when making the career choices that get them closer to their goals. If you had lunch with a few data scientists and noticed you were super excited about their work, ask yourself why. The goal dictates the decision.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2022

I'll even give you 6 weeks notice so the team has a chance for an orderly transition. I'll even give you 6 weeks notice so the team has a chance for an orderly transition. Sure, he won't get the boost of the extra money, but it would help the team. He didn't have enough money to pay the salaries he thought everyone deserved.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Politics gets its bad rap when leaders operate out of self-interest versus the best interest of others. Who gets the most "positive press"? What types of new ideas get noticed? Which departments get alone with one another? Which leaders get along with each other? How are decisions really made?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Yet, we don't always notice these changes, so we don't create options and experiment. Yet, the more we can create resilient workplaces, the more ease we find and the better results we can get. How We Make Personal Decisions for More Ease & Better Results. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 4, 2023

A lot of people ask me questions about how to be perceived as authoritative, as a leader, and as an expert. I get far fewer questions about how to actually be an expert, be a leader, and be naturally authoritative. If I’m misunderstanding something, what did I get wrong?” What do you think about this issue?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

How can specific practices be a sign of maturity? That's why I prefer to see how good we are with change rather than practices. For agile transformation, an assessment can help people see how they change—how they innovate the products and the culture. Here's what I look for: Notice when things work.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

Tim has big problems with potentially massive upside potential if we can get people to work together. How well do we create and explore alternatives? How satisfied are we with our people, product, and cultural leadership? If people don't come to your meetings, I want to know why.” These questions are all about outcomes.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 18, 2022

So, somewhere between, “How does next Tuesday at 1 pm look for you?” Out of the 1,000 text messages we’ve exchanged over the past decade, I noticed and responded to 999 out of 1,000. When she texted me a second time to see if I noticed the earlier text where she said she was getting married, I knew I missed it.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

Staff jobs only offer intangible and peripheral value, as I briefly discussed in Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1. Cutting overhead is definitely not personal—it’s all about how managers perceive an employee’s value. You’re an unemployed agilist.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

I hate how that one tree branch blocks the stop sign at the intersection; someone should tell the the city to fix it.". "I I hate how that one tree branch blocks the stop sign at the intersection; someone should tell the the city to fix it.". The problem solver notices that the new employee orientation is confusing.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 12, 2021

However, this method of practice reinforced the strong urge I had to “get it right” and to measure success by how hard I tried and how long I persisted. Less is often more. When I was first introduced to meditation , many years ago, it was before there was much awareness in our culture about mindfulness.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For those of you who haven't played in a while, here's how it works: The game leader counts the number of people and places one less chair than the number of people in a circle, their backs facing each other. The person who can't find a chair gets knocked out of the game. The person who can't find a chair gets knocked out of the game.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 16, 2021

I receive a ton of questions from my Inner Circle members about how to handle colleagues and bosses who take credit for their ideas and work. There are two very simple reasons why someone else will get credit for your ideas when you didn’t. They just say the right words in the right way, and they get noticed. Here’s why.

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Action Plan

JANUARY 25, 2024

So, what is the purpose of this rather annoying inquiry? :–) Well, when you start to notice and accept that whatever you like is just the way it happened to you… from your upbringing, education, media or happenstance… Then you may also notice and start to accept that pretty much what everyone else likes wasn’t a choice for them either.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But Peter can't get to it until the following day. Notice how little time the team spent working on this story: just 5.3 And, notice how much time the team spent waiting for each other: 72 hours. Even when managers try to create cross-functional teams, the teams still have dependencies.

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The Fearless Marketer

MAY 18, 2020

Will we get another bailout? Will we get a baseball season? As they say, things are likely to get a whole lot worse before they get any better. But if you take a closer look, you might notice that we tend to resist these feelings. So, how do we deal with all of that? But apparently, no such hero exists.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It could be a number of things: You want to make more money, you want to attract more clients, you want to improve your website, you want to get your LinkedIn marketing on track, you want to give more talks, or you want less spam in your inbox. To get more money takes a certain amount of work. To get less spam takes an act of congress.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Action Plan

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, what is the purpose of this rather annoying inquiry? :–) Well, when you start to notice and accept that whatever you like is just the way it happened to you… from your upbringing, education, media or happenstance… Then you may also notice and start to accept that pretty much what everyone else likes wasn’t a choice for them either.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 2, 2020

More than 4,000 participants have been asking the question: “How do I use social media to attract more business, and what are the social media platforms and strategies that are best for me?”. So getting attention and getting noticed, let alone getting a response is, to say the least, challenging. Same thing.

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Tsavo Neal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

What you put on your personal website depends on what you want to get out of your personal website — it’s purpose. Blog: Demonstrate how your content will benefit people — and prompt them to click on and read it. Blog: Demonstrate how your content will benefit people — and prompt them to click on and read it. with this email….

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 30, 2021

It would be great if we could put the world on pause while we get ourselves together, but that is not a realistic expectation. In fact, if you stop to notice, even today you are making multiple micro-adjustments maintaining your balance as you pedal yourself forward. Mindfulness practice offers us one path to accomplish this.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 17, 2021

Do you know who gets leadership positions in a company? If you want such a role, you need to be leading before you get it. If you need to demonstrate leadership before you are given a leadership position, how do you do that when you lack formal authority? But how does a vice president of sales or engineering spend their time?

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2020

It’s been interesting to notice how well trained they are to be aware of their surroundings — assessing potential threats, planning escape routes, managing time and space between themselves and potential threats. I have a few female friends who were raised by fathers in the military. Did we hit our margin target? (You Are they happy?

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this article, Charlotte Scott explains why we need assertiveness, what it actually is, and how to be assertive. Assertiveness is actually an interplay between how we communicate and how we treat the other person in the conversation. It also helps to earn others’ respect and boost your self-esteem.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 6, 2021

That often doesn’t work well because it’s unclear how to allocate resources. 1 Priority #2 Priority #3 Priority #4 Priority #5 Priority If your #1 goal is to get promoted within a year, that goal is very clear. It gets all of the time and resources that remain until the #2 priority reaches some point of diminishing returns.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The easiest way to get promoted is to do the following: 1) Choose an employer that’s growing and in constant demand for new people. If your boss isn’t looking to get promoted (thereby creating an open position for you), it becomes harder to have an upwards career trajectory with that employer. 2) Master your own job. Here’s why.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Although networking is a widely cited element of success in the early stages of a career, I didn’t realise until recently how critical to success networking would be, or why. How long have you worked at this company? If you really want to get noticed in the early stages of your career, standard approaches will not help you stand out.

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

One way to determine how a team is doing involves listening to their comments to one another or others. Process involves how well people work together on that team. Those who stepped up anyway made a significant contribution to the company, and it was noticed. I noticed one other thing. I could do this faster myself.”

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