Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Last week, I discussed lessons I learned dealing with some of the largest sports’ brands in the world. Do the associations your brand generate meet the expectations you want? We use examples from sports, concerts, professional services, insurance, and more to make the case that being creative is a process and being boring is a choice.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 10, 2020

Managers are in too many meetings. It is one of the reasons for poorer employee engagement, customer service and productivity throughout the world. A study by the Personnel Management Association found that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%. Training plus coaching increased productivity by 88%!

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

For some networking meetings, the agenda is obvious: Your companies are considering doing business together, or you’re looking for a job and this person might help you get one. But many professionals find themselves in networking meetings where the goals are murkier.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 13, 2021

What kind of products does our customer offer and how do they differ from one another? Try to understand our customer’s products or services in detail. Should our customer produce only one shoe, he should probably enter new markets by providing a broader product portfolio. Image: Pixabay.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

We will continue to see an overreliance on pricing gimmicks: The struggles to sell tickets in sports, theatres, and other venues have led to a doubling down on “get-in pricing”, discounts, and overreliance on dynamic pricing. A feeling that people should inherently know that they should pick sports, theatre, concerts, or whatever.

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Women in Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

Before joining Women In Consulting, I had a sense of being frustrated by the lack of serious business conversation among the friends I’d made from my kids’ schools and sports programs and other activities. And those people had primarily been men in my life as an employee.

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Peter Stark

MAY 1, 2022

In the business of sports, it’s common knowledge that you can’t consistently win without working as a united team. Fence builders are famous for words such as, “We’re too busy to meet,” or, “If everyone would do their job, we wouldn’t need to meet.” Hold consistent cross-departmental meetings. Take a strong stand.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2023

No productive conflict? No board meetings? The effects of visualization and guided imagery in sports performance Kotter, J. When science meets mindfulness. One valuable lesson he shares for leaders to consider is a mindset that "pressure is a privilege." What is the alternative to leadership pressure? No aligned goals?

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. Like I was a commissioner for a youth Lacrosse program from seven years and brought 450 families into the community of the sport that we were dealing with, and grew it from 2 teams to 24 teams. I'm a coach in and out of the business.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

I facilitated a meeting in my office with fifteen senior human resource executives. The typical scenario plays out this way: The manager sets up a meeting with HR and asks for help to fire an employee. Leadership is a high contact sport. Employee turnover causes lower morale and employee productivity. No one is perfect.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

moves about involuntarily, pulled away and bounced around by meetings, texts, emails, news feeds, and during the last year of pandemic, by the kids, the pets, the laundry, and the pot of soup on the stove, and maybe YouTube and Netflix. The costs to our productivity and our personal wellbeing of this involuntary attention are enormous.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. Like I was a commissioner for a youth Lacrosse program from seven years and brought 450 families into the community of the sport that we were dealing with, and grew it from 2 teams to 24 teams. I'm a coach in and out of the business.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 20, 2017

In sports, the opponent wants you to think they’re going right when they really want to go left, that they’ll throw a fastball when they’re throwing a curve, etc. Years ago, I had regular breakfast meetings with a friend in a complementary business. Everywhere you look there are distractions.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 24, 2021

However, it becomes more severe when you have to meet a hard deadline by midnight. In his free time, Till enjoys sports and going out into nature. . “Whether I start a task by structuring everything on a sheet of paper determines whether I’m in bed at 11pm or 1am.” Image: Pexels.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In my last post I wrote about how teams are critical to success in sports, business, and actually other activities, and how individuals determine the success of the teams. One day I had two groups of employees, with a pre-selected mix of management, production people, and admin staff. The first group was a lot less productive.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. “Take a football player.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. Servant Leadership Quotes "Leadership is an extreme sport requiring both courage and humility."

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 25, 2020

I facilitated a meeting in my office with fifteen senior human resource executives. The typical scenario plays out this way: The manager sets up a meeting with HR and asks for help to fire an employee. Leadership is a high contact sport. Employee turnover causes lower morale and employee productivity. No one is perfect.

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Training Training Emotional Intelligence Leadership 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here are three principles I’ve found to be effective in staving off isolation, maintaining productivity, and surrounding oneself with a stimulating cadre of colleagues. What Everyone Should Know about Running Virtual Meetings. I’ve worked from home since 2006, when I launched my consulting and speaking business.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

Medical device companies are catching on to the financial potential of these devices and are beginning to add medical wearables to their product lines. Offers include things like gift cards and small cash payments for meeting certain daily fitness goals. Hurdles to Overcome. Image: Pixabay. Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 9, 2015

Networking – Not only can your clients benefit from the event itself, but also from the valuable contacts that they might meet there. By creating an opportunity for your contacts to meet each other, you offer them additional value by helping them to build their network. Get physical.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Consider some of the impacts branding can have: Provides direction for future product development. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. So, what benefits can hospitals gain from investing resources into brand positioning? Serves as the foundation for marketing communications.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Being a consultant involves meeting deadlines. Either in your head or on paper you should have a fairly clear picture of how long each step will take or when you could have a completed product. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Setting Expectations. Image: Pexels.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

I told him we would not meet in person until he talked to his wife about it. This is a contact sport; the more contacts you make the greater your chance of success and in a shorter period of time. Pay them a fair wage, have a good culture, and keep productivity high. On our second call I asked again and got the same answer.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

The retention of this data is driven by the need to meet intricate compliance and regulatory requirements. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity. The healthcare industry generates a large amount of data.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 23, 2018

Lack of consistent team meetings: When managers are overwhelmed trying to survive the next hour, the thought of preparing for a weekly meeting takes a very low priority. Some managers are fond of telling us that since they are always working on a higher “at the moment” task, they believe meetings are a waste of time.

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Peter Stark

AUGUST 15, 2020

Even if you just take a step outside and breath fresh air for a few minutes, the mental break can make a big difference in your productivity, focus and patience. Just because people are working those long hours does not mean they are any more productive than someone working fewer hours each week, but working more efficiently.

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Henman Performance Executive

JUNE 4, 2013

I don’t see shopping as a sport, pastime, or pleasure. Yesterday I went to Nordstrom’s, which has traditionally offered both good products and distinctive service. Nordstrom’s Critical Condition. by Linda Henman on June 4, 2013. I’m not a shopaholic. In fact, I represent the antithesis of one—whatever that is. Not anymore.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The book will also tell you how not to annoy your people during meetings, how to generate and manage creative ideas, and how office politics can be a kind of problem-solving. The “productive laziness” is built on the Pareto principle that states that in many cases, 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. Nina laughed.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Consumer Products. Some employees explain that they need to be available 24/7 to meet the rigorous demands placed upon them. Automotive. Business & Consumer Services. Financial Services. Healthcare. Heavy Equipment. Life Sciences. Media & Entertainment. Oil & Gas. Private Equity. Restaurant & Foodservice.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

A study of UK commuters found a similar result when those who were prompted to use their commute to think about and plan for their day were happier, more productive, and less burned out than people who didn’t. How could you have been more effective in a recent meeting? Leaders often: Don’t understand the process.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

In financial services, for instance, these ways are the newest cashless payment methods or mobile banking products. In CPG categories, connected spenders will be drawn to “hot” concepts such as health and wellness, and offerings that combine product and experience, such as subscription services.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. At Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lauren Hobart was promoted from CMO to President, while at KFC, CMO Kevin Hochman became President and Chief Concept Officer. ” 4.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Before meeting someone new — whether it’s a potential employer or a new client — do your homework. Know who you’re meeting, what he cares about, and what he might need from you. When meeting someone new, it’s normal to be nervous but you don’t want your anxiety to show. Prepare talking points.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The business implications are manifest: higher productivity and fewer conceptual gaps. As one executive described the risk of having poor focus, “When my mind wanders in a meeting I wonder what business opportunity I’ve just missed.” These people showed better concentration, even when multi-tasking.

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