Women in Consulting

JULY 19, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 4, 2021

The value of time is derived from the fact that we must each make reasonable use of the 24 hours we have been allotted in order to live a balanced life that is not only productive but also healthy, happy, and fulfilling. Using time reasonably is not an easy task. Prioritising your time can make an important difference.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Without corporate mandates such as weekly team meetings or biweekly project check-ins, entrepreneurs have the ability to wipe out bureaucratic red tape and reach new heights of productivity. Here are four strategies self-employed professionals can use to schedule meetings more effectively. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Having a meeting-free day. Establishing one day with no meetings is a technique that I used throughout 2016 to complete a book proposal and write the manuscript for my third book. It’s also a strategy I use with my time management coaching clients. A meeting-free day isn’t the best option for everyone.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2023

Whether you’re a busy professional, a student, or an entrepreneur, time management is a crucial skill for anyone looking to increase their productivity. Effective time management involves an ongoing and regular process of organising your schedule so that time is allocated to all of the important aspects of your life.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Through teamwork you learn how to assert your position and also how compromise in all areas where a decision needs to be made: separating roles and responsibilities, selecting fonts and graphics to use in a presentation, creating a meeting agenda, deciding on a meeting place and time, you get the idea. Time management.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I still see so many teams spend weeks at a time estimating projects they won't start for years. Or, that someone is supposed to estimate ROI when no one has done any small experiments to see if anyone would buy/use this product/feature. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. I'm always off.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results , when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails. Does this need to be a meeting? We also helped to develop a decision tree focused on accepting and declining meetings.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most high performing teams start the year with a clear and agreed upon team charter that sets the team’s collective intention to maximize productivity. High performing teams review goals and accountabilities , set clear priorities, and feel confident about managing their workload.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 5, 2022

All of which are very relevant to the work I do today, the products I create, and the articles and tips I share on my newsletter ( [link] ). Instead of trying to master a hundred or a thousand different strategies, Chet recommends zeroing in on just the few essential skill areas that make the big difference. Hiring superstars.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails. Does this need to be a meeting? We also helped to develop a decision tree focused on accepting and declining meetings.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems. One could be responsible for documenting your processes, while the other is responsible for running great meetings. Or you train someone in your team to take over that role.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

Here are 3 employee experience strategies to keep your remote and hybrid workforce engaged in 2022 while balancing a return to the office. Strategy 1: Engaging a remote workforce First, we must recognize that some of employees simply do not want to return to in-office. hours in meetings a week, over half a 40-hour workweek.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Pausing to consider what needs to be removed from your schedule takes time. Here are a few strategies that can help you streamline your schedule and build in room to complete your new goals and resolutions. In many work environments, tasks and projects get piled on without any clear sense of priorities or time capacity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

That’s potentially more email, more tasks, more meetings, and more searching for answers to questions about items outside of your normal day-to-day. These six strategies can help you strike that delicate balance. If possible, have one consolidated list of your deadlines and those you need to meet for others. Ask for help.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2021

Who Should Decide Do your managers feel overwhelmed by all the decisions they must make day-by-day? It is estimated that decision making can take up to 70% of a manager’s time. Managers need to gain better decision making capabilities. You have plenty of company.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. What might happen to the various cycle times?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

Here are targeted strategies to overcome each one. Looking at the distance between your idea and the finished product — whether it’s a podcast, a coaching practice, an app, or anything else — can seem overwhelming. Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive. Time management issues.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Meetings Take Half as Long. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

They assess the team’s culture and ensure that it is healthy enough, accountable enough, and aligned enough with key strategic initiatives to help, and not hinder, strategy execution. Being a Player-Coach New managers are held accountable for team results. Are your managers capable of leading and delivering in a way that makes sense?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Inspired by a colleague, the time management expert Laura Vanderkam , I decided to spend the month of February tracking exactly how I spent my time, down to half-hour increments. In particular, there were four that made me rethink a lot of the conventional wisdom on productivity and time management.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. Environment.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

For instance, you have consulting within Business Strategy, Marketing, IT, Management and so on. You get the chance to meet a lot of different people. One thing is other consultants that will be working on the same projects as you, but there’s also the different clients, as well as all the people you meet in the office.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Through my own experience and in my work coaching clients on time management, I’ve seen that there often is a strong correlation between poor time management, working longer hours, and feeling stressed. Once you have these practical strategies in place, the final element is emotional.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

You can’t schedule that important meeting, because the key players are on holiday. In the midst of the summer doldrums, how can you stay motivated and actually make your time at the office count? Here are three strategies to keep in mind. Embrace “deep work.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water. Covey’s time management matrix is a good tool for this.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

On-boarding, for example, is usually a one-off session in which reps are expected to absorb large amounts of information in a limited amount of time. Salespeople must learn about strategy and sales tasks at your firm, not only a generic sales methodology. This helps Pacific Life leverage its scarcest resource: face time with advisers.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. This strategy can particularly helps with procrastinators, says Saunders. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not only does taking vacation contribute to enhanced productivity but it also immunizes our teams against the toxic negative attitudes that can be contagious in the workplace. In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. Photo by Vicko Mozara.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The world is replete with SWOT mechanisms for evaluating a prospective new product offering, as well as opportunity assessment templates for evaluating a project against overall business goals, customer impact, strategic potential, and competitive urgency. Attend a strategy summit? Should you speak at that event? Author a book?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” 5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For. You and Your Team Series. Thinking Strategically.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

For example, get a reminder to turn your meetings into “walking meetings” on any day when it isn’t raining, or a reminder to leave the office early if you worked too late the night before. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Want to stop being late to meetings? Building Good Habits.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% So more stable scheduling is feasible, and holds the potential for improved sales and productivity. The results were striking. per year between 1987 and 2014. We hope not.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

More and more people are working remotely, and many say it improves their productivity and satisfaction — while also saving them time and money. ” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. “It proves that you can manage it.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Over the last two years, I conducted four different experiments to monitor my own behavior, implementing trackers and blockers in order to better understand how social media usage affected my productivity. This proved to be a very effective strategy for me. Time-based internet blockers helped me increase my productivity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

” They encouraged companies to go beyond CSR (corporate social responsibility) and integrate social impact into companies’ competitive strategy. And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” “We talk purpose at the highest level strategy meetings.

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