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The Little Known Strategy for Becoming an Executive Advisor

Consulting Matters

If your entire marketing strategy is simply going by referrals, finding other consultants or coaches who are more successful and taking their overflow work or signing up for firms that will do the marketing for you - you'll have a hard time convincing a senior leader that you are their equal and peer. as little as 90 days.

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The 3 Pillars of an Effective Data Management Strategy: Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished.

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5 Shifts to Instantly Increase Your Consulting Success and Impact

Consulting Matters

Related: The Little Known Strategy for Becoming an Executive Advisor. It's not about delivering a methodology. You don't sell methodologies; you offer problem-solving support that transforms those problems into catalysts for growth. ” Get my Free Value Proposition Creation Video Training!

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How to Confidently Articulate the Value of What You Do

Consulting Matters

What you do isn't the same as your methodologies or tools. They are not enamored by your personality assessments, your coaching approach or any other your methodologies because they don't hire you for those. Clients will come to you all the time with requests for certain methodologies. Your value isn't found in your tools.

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ISO 20700 and Client Relationships: Building Trust and Transparency

Effective Managers

By adopting these practices, consultants can create a transparent environment where expectations, goals, and methodologies are clearly articulated and understood. ISO 20700 emphasizes the importance of clear communication strategies, ensuring that both parties are on the same page throughout the consulting engagement.

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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

What I'm NOT going to do is show you how to put sizzle around how to explain your methodology to your client that makes them sign with you on the spot because that is not going to happen. Clients don't understand, nor do they care about your methodology. This article is for you. Your shop talk is never going through their minds.

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How to Create a "What I Do" Statement That Impresses Potential Clients [On-Air Coaching with J. Kyle Howard]

Consulting Matters

Leading with the methodology. How to stop worrying about exciting ways to explain your methodology (and what to do instead). Strategies you can use right now to begin creating authentic connections with potential clients (and referrers to potential clients). Our goal is not to sell someone after a quick monologue.

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