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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. When I use the word ‘team’, I refer to either a department or work group. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market. Pulling It All Together.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. When I use the word ‘team’, I refer to either a department or work group. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. For example, one organization I worked with had no training and were last in their market. Pulling It All Together.

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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Many solopreneurs make the mistake of marketing themselves as a jack-of-all-trades. For example, Fortune 500 or middle market? When you have a specific area of expertise, it’s easier for people to remember you, refer you to their colleagues, and of course, hire you. The exact opposite is true. What problem was being solved?

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Here is a verbatim snippet from her résumé at the time: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND SERVICES Senior consultant with professional experience in Organization Development and Change, Leadership and Organizational Communications and Coaching , as well as internal and external Corporate Communications, including global marketing initiatives.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business

Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography.

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What I Learned From 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple

Harvard Business

” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. Over this period, Apple would prove the cynics wrong and dazzle the world with its groundbreaking innovations, masterful marketing and against-the-grain approach. PR played a huge role in this success.