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Consultant Marketing Pillow Talk

Jerry Fletcher

And the worst part is our guide may not recall blurting out the methodology or special ingredient or whatever secret should have remained so. For instance, the interviewer in a pod cast asks how you accomplished a turnaround for a client or what process was used to save multiple clients. It happens.

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4 Things End Users Want During Desk Relocation Projects

PM Alliance

Ensuring that technology resources are on hand during desk relocations can help address any glitches, particularly when checkerboard moves mean tight turnaround times. Your users are likely to consider these requests urgent.

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Rethinking Project Management Supply Chain Risks

PM Alliance

Turnaround times for procurement and shipping are in flux, creating challenges for project teams. Even if your current provider relationships don’t present immediate risks, you may consider investing additional time into confirming that the materials you normally purchase continue to be sourced ethically.

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A “Thing” That Really Works

The Fearless Marketer

What you do instead is educate your prospective clients about your consulting methodology, coaching approach, or training process that they need to understand and implement to get the results they are looking for (mostly in their businesses). Third, you don’t even mention your services for the first three-quarters of the presentation.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). And you do need to give a good team room to do their best.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External Ones

Harvard Business

This includes adopting a common methodology, frameworks and tools so that everyone speaks the same “ language ,” for example using the STARS model (for Startup, Turnaround, Accelerated Growth, Realignment and Sustaining Success) to align on the challenges leaders are facing.