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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

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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How to Blow a Presentation to the C-Suite

Harvard Business

This was a rare opportunity to present directly in front of the CEO, so Divya and her teammates worked hard to research their assigned topic, frame the specific challenge, and debate different ideas and solutions. Instead of hanging out at the bar after dinner, they worked far into the night finalizing their presentation.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

Consulting is about more than financial return on investment (ROI). It is much easier to invoice clients for an hour of work than for a few PowerPoint slides that may not have even made their way into the final edit of the client presentation. How do we make sure that teams are meeting expected standards of performance?

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Upgrade your Legacy System without Disrupting your Project-based Organization

Progressus

We put together a continuous improvement and change management team in tandem with the implementation which keeps the training fresh, keeps features and functions present, and ensures user adoption and evolution of the system.” We guide your technology roadmap on a schedule that meets the demands of today’s fast-moving marketplace.

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6 Ways to Move Beyond the Commodity Mindset

Consulting Success

I was meeting one of my first business mentors. I had a few hours before meeting my friend so took some time to stroll the streets. People with a commodity mindset focus too much on what they will deliver and do for their clients, and not enough on the outcome, result, and ROI. Present higher-priced options.

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Proposals, Part 2: The Potential Solutions

The Consultants Peer Group

I presented five problems associated with the commonly accepted ‘standard’ consulting proposal – the kind that can be found online with a simple search. The individual was describing a meeting with a C-suite member of an organization in the industry who was talking about their needs and whether the consultant could help them.

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What are interviewers from consulting firms really looking for?

Tom Spencer

Based on the bit of information presented to you, can you logically connect the dots and recommend a sensible solution as you work through the case? Don’t forget to memorize some key formulas (like breakeven and ROI), and learn to become familiar with complex graphs and charts. Presentation Skills.