Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In this short post, we will briefly explore how consulting firms work, the hierarchy within firms, the main types of firms, and a few ways to learn more about a particular firm as you chart your career path, prepare your applications, and get ready to matriculate into the consulting industry. How do Consulting Firms Work?

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

So, the importance of risk management cannot be overestimated – it’s better to stay ahead of all possible threats to your project. . What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Project management risks. Managing the supply chain.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. Cutting overhead is definitely not personal—it’s all about how managers perceive an employee’s value.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, let's consider how to see management's adaptable and resilient actions. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. And management actions matter the most. Why do I focus on management actions? Mindset is how we think about our work. Learn fast.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 20, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 1, 2022

In this episode, Bianca Robinson, the CEO of Cayden Cay Consulting, talks about her career shift from being a project manager for an engineering firm to diving into consulting service. She also discusses how and why.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Her successful career journey, with diverse roles in operations and staff groups at Disney, have been instrumental in shaping her understanding of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational success. It is about strong communication skills and leadership, and it requires understanding your audience and the context in which they operate.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Today, companies are desperately seeking strategies to retain customers, rebuild inventories, and restructure operations to fit the new business environment. Companies are also starting to adopt digital tools to streamline daily operations. Technology can also play a role in how consultants solve complex problems for their clients.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Even though some offices are starting to open up post-COVID, it seems unlikely that things will return to how they were before the pandemic anytime soon. Many businesses are looking at staying fully remote or offering a more flexible approach with a mix of coming into the office and working from home.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I need to manage my stakeholders and I don’t know where to start. As a project manager it’s important to know and understand who your stakeholders are and how to manage your relationships with them. For other bigger, more complex projects you can face a potential minefield of relationships that you need to manage.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 7, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

We have to facilitate acceptance of the change by managing with mind and heart. This approach keeps the learning fresh and relevant, helping to solidify the new behaviors and practices as part of the organization’s daily operations. See our blog post on how to give feedback with clarity while staying relationally connected.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Let Mandi Ellefson of Hands-Off CEO share how you can run your business profitably without you! How To Build A “Hands-Off” Consulting Business With Mandi Ellefson: Podcast #259 is a post from: Consulting Success. Even better, we can actually lead without working (and being) neck-deep in the company. Sounds impossible?

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 5, 2022

This article is the third of a series of posts on how to build a company "operating system", the infrastructure that functions as a backbone of your most common tasks and daily activities. In particular in this article we focus on how to track company time on Airtable in order to be able to run analysis and optimization activities.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

We define company culture as HOW work gets done as opposed to the strategy or WHAT you want to accomplish in an organization. You need to manage your company culture to achieve peak performance. Do you operate more as a market adopter like Kia or a market leader like Tesla? Do you embrace or avoid risk? You get the idea.

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Kraft Kennedy

AUGUST 8, 2023

We collected feedback about the misconceptions around Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and we’d like to take a moment to debunk the myths. ” The average size of our Managed Services clients is 65 users. “A Managed Service Provider will replace your IT department.” You spoke, we listened.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. workforce and 14% of the European workforce operate as freelance professionals. .

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 2, 2018

Field of expertise — Consultants who can diagnose problems and create sound strategies and actionable plans can charge more than those who focus on more tactical work like project management. As a general rule, the more strategic — or frankly, the more mysterious — the work is perceived to be by the client, the more they are willing to pay.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 14, 2021

One thing consulting has taught me is that, what you think is “right” at the time may be completely wrong for that certain task or may not necessarily be what your manager was looking for. My manager often says, “you are doing something wrong if you don’t find yourself questioning what is going on in the project”.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2023

Organizational innovation is fueled through effective and agile creation, management, application, recombination, and deployment of knowledge assets and know-how.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Indeed, a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management indicates that fifteen percent of companies offer a 32-hour workweek. Of course, every situation is different and will require a different approach.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This means streamlining operations, removing administrative burdens, and prioritizing high-impact work. A growing body of evidence suggests that reduced-hour work schedules for the same level of pay are not only feasible when it comes to maintaining outcomes but also potentially advantageous when it comes to employee wellbeing and retention.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This article explains how to determine your “base rate”, and the external factors that will impact your pricing. Links to articles on how to raise your rate or switch to a fixed fee are at the end of this one.) Do an internet search such as “typical hourly rate for change management consultant in [your location].”

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

In a business context, change now must involve all facets of the business, be well coordinated, happen fast, and effectively manage the human side of change. A focus on the implications of how change impacts those most affected is the first step in minimizing change resistance and engage people’s hearts and minds.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Earlier this year I attended the PEI Operating Partner Forum for the 4th time. It was interesting to note how prevalent the topic of human capital was. Additionally, the management team is key in terms of choosing the right support. The post Best Practices in Advisor Management appeared first on COMATCH.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. How to track your Goals and objectives: Tracking goals and objectives can be a daunting task for many senior leaders.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2020

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? How do you incent the managers? What makes sense for management compensation? Cindy, a director in a 500-person IT organization struggles with this—for herself and for the managers she leads and serves.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

David is a very experienced management consultant, currently on the national board of the Institute of Management Consultants in the USA. Did you know there is an international standard providing guidelines for delivery of management consulting services? David has created TCPG, a peer group for and about consultants only.

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Without consistent feedback a manager operates blindly. When you are the manager, it can be down-right difficult to get candid critiques or compliments that are not coated with ulterior motives or filtered by fear. The better the manager becomes, the better the team becomes. Hearing the feedback.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Middle Management Needs to Be Deeply Engaged in Strategy Design and Planning. It also found that middle management plays a powerful role in getting strategically aligned. For strategic plans to succeed, companies need to align middle management with strategy. When Middle Management Is Left Out of Strategic Design and Planning.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I've been a manager in several layoffs. The managers had already tightened the operating expenses, such as eliminating coffee in the break rooms. In addition, the managers had taken pay cuts. Then there are the companies that do across-the-board layoffs and give managers raises. Assess the Corporate Context.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

The immediacy of day-to-day operations can lead to a strategic process that is more about ticking boxes and filling templates, which often end up languishing, unopened, in an inbox. And they should be again.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. On top of that, people may not speak as freely with an internal facilitator or member of the leadership team leading the session.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

How to work with someone who’s moving their career forward at the expense of yours.

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