Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2023

Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether. But what about how to schedule your meetings alongside other work tasks to best manage your productivity?

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 11, 2024

Creating a skin care product line is a nuanced endeavor that demands a blend of creativity, scientific precision, and industry knowledge. Business consulting services, particularly those specializing in the beauty and skincare sector, play a crucial role in navigating the complexities of bringing a new brand and product line to life.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 17, 2024

In the highly competitive landscape of product development and manufacturing, the pursuit of quality-driven products is paramount. In this exploration, we unravel the myriad benefits of partnering with consultants in the quest for creating superior products. Get expert help. Call today and get a consultation.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

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. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. For example, someone on your team who is feeling down enters a meeting.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 18, 2022

As part of a consulting engagement or broader enterprise strategy alignment, you can expect to plan and run an offsite at one point of your career. So whether you are running a small executive team offsite, or one for a larger group, here are five tips I’ve used to plan a successful strategy offsite.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Without a recruitment firm’s assistance, a company’s internal staff must handle these tasks, which can detract from their core responsibilities and reduce overall productivity. Compliance and Legal Challenges: Recruitment firms are typically well-versed in employment laws and regulations. References Allen, D., & Vardaman, J.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2019

When it comes to strategic planning, every organization will go about scheduling their meetings in a different way. Regardless, having scheduled strategy progress and project management meetings will remain essential to fulfill your organizational goals and objectives.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

Whether it’s how your group comes together to collaborate on project budget development or the systems you use to maintain stakeholder engagement, a willingness to blend new and old methods gives you wider access to options that can lead to the perfect strategy for your unique situation. Consider your communications strategy.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2020

This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. The earlier you wake up, the more productive you will be.

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Comatch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Grappling with complex topics, meeting demanding deadlines, and working long hours are all part and parcel of life as a consultant. 3 Reasons Hobbies Drive Productivity. Independent consultants are multi-role players, having to master every aspect of their consulting product. Stay Focused. Drive Neuroplasticity .

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

I initially started out my career in management consulting, exited to an internal strategy team in industry, and pivoted back to consulting. This two part article series will provide valuable perspective for those who are considering internal strategy teams as their next career option as I unveil my personal thoughts and experiences.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 4, 2024

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. To avoid falling behind and making costly mistakes, here are two essential talent strategy steps you need to take now. The table below shows the expected employee skills from 2015 to 2030.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 8, 2021

2 Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. Identify the meetings that can be eliminated, take tasks that you ought to tackle, and shift things around that make sense. Do a series of team planning meetings. 2 More Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. So, where do we draw the line?

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

The purpose of B2B marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients. Let’s say you’re a manager who’s looking for somebody to help their team work more productively and creatively. Well, the business manager, asks others in their company, “Hey, do you know somebody good who does productivity and creativity consulting for teams?”.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Please provide me with three distinct [topic of interest] strategies. Each strategy should have a unique approach and please name each of the strategies. Would you please provide me now with the pros and cons of each of the strategies taking into consideration all that you know about [topic of interest field]?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

You're a busy product person, a Product Owner. You have information the team needs, and you want to meet. You see the need for these meetings: Standups. Except, the team thinks you want to meet too often. Instead of calling every gathering a “meeting,” use the meeting's purpose to guide your decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 8, 2019

When you have a small product that serves maybe three types of customer (new, expert, admin for example), and that customer is down the figurative hall, you might not need any product people. Let's talk about why we have any product people at all. Product people: Create and refine the strategy behind the product/service.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

What does a good strategy execution require If you have the right strategy and execute it well, your business will thrive. But given your strategy is smart, what's required to execute well on your strategy? This article outlines a simple framework to execute your strategy. It's that simple.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2024

In this article, the author explains how to spot the classic signs of undiscussables — meetings marked by quick consensus, a lack of productive debate, or uneven participation — and offers strategies on how to uncover those unexpressed thoughts and feelings to help your team work more productively.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

Here are six practical culture change strategies that will move your company closer toward your goal. If you are looking for a good discussion topic at an upcoming meeting, take some time to ask those attending how they would describe the organization's culture. What is Organizational Culture? How can Organizational Culture be Changed?

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate without furthering meeting fatigue. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of meetings per person has increased by 12.9%, and the number of attendees per meeting has increased by 13.5%. Back to the Basics.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 23, 2011

These are companies that are essentially independent from product vendors. However, there are a number of companies that provide consulting or professional services as part of product companies (e.g., Improper tone for sales meetings – Product companies are often used to marketing-push type sales strategies (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This article highlights a simple negotiation strategy that leaders can start using today to make their next tricky meeting most productive. Yet, these skills are hard to learn and often take years of experience and practice.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 1, 2023

Unlike traditional product sales, SaaS requires a different type of selling. The highly customized solution selling training program module called Engage, was a First Sales Meeting Workshop for sales reps that focused on: How to Get Access to the Buyer The amount of information buyers receive daily is staggering.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifics of Project Management for Manufacturing Companies The manufacturing environment deals with creating physical products, which in turn embraces a variety of processes that should be properly managed. Meeting the increasing demand under conditions of ongoing resource shortage is a challenge for manufacturing project management.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

There are many problems with the way most meetings are run. In an effort to not make anyone feel left out, they unknowingly decrease the quality of the meeting. When well-intended managers are too inclusive with their meeting invites: There is not enough time for everyone to participate in the conversation. vgajic/Getty Images.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 10, 2019

Too many teams have overloaded Product Owners. The teams and PO have trouble connecting the organization's strategy to what the teams deliver. That insufficient collaboration means the PO doesn't always connect the strategy to the tactics. That was in Product Roles, Part 1: Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 2, 2024

Brand Development and Positioning Consultants assist in developing a strong brand identity and positioning strategy for the skincare company. Product Development and Formulation One of the critical aspects of skincare companies is product development and formulation.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections?

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 10, 2010

One technique that I tend to use a lot in management meetings and consulting engagements involves the use of two slide types. The meeting lead must work hard to apply their best facilitation skills on this slide – when to use open-ended questioning, when to analyze, and when to steer to closure require good judgment calls.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Simply put, a B2C sale takes place when your business sells a product or service directly to an end consumer. Alternatively, B2B sales happen when one business sells its products or services to another business. B2C and B2B sales are very different processes, requiring different strategies. Potential leads.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. The collected information is then taken into product development meetings, focusing all future engineering efforts on addressing the customer pain points in a way that can be monetized. Instead of asking “do you like this logo?”

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 10, 2023

Here’s a look at how to create an effective L&D strategy that aligns with your goals. Identify Core Goals and Priorities Before you focus on developing an L&D strategy, it’s critical to determine what the program needs to accomplish. When developing your L&D strategy, recognize that a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t ideal.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Focus on adding on-the-spot value by asking good questions and focusing more on the people you are meeting vs. establishing your credentials. Be courageous with former clients: Schedule a meeting to catch up and check in.

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