Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It's a consequence of an intentional positioning strategy, which I will explain to you in this video. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. I was super excited, and I had this opportunity to be an internal consultant for a nonprofit organization.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Ongoing contributions usually do not come from clients during trainings or when receiving advice from experts. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members. Like value investing, Social Value Investing employs a long-term investment strategy that unlocks hidden or intrinsic value.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 4, 2019

He shares some thoughts on his first months as a strategy consultant, and gives a few tips on how to make the most out of your business school time – beyond the hours of case prep. The first week was mostly training and orientation. She worked in government and nonprofit consulting in Washington, DC and Chicago.

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Women in Consulting

MAY 22, 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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Women in Consulting

APRIL 18, 2013

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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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 21, 2011

Did your client try any strategies to address the issue before? (If If all they tried was training, then they might have a very short-term view of how to fix things.). Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Doctorpreneurs have three important qualities: Medical excellence: First and foremost, doctorpreneurs are excellent doctors, with first-rate education and training. Doctorpreneurs have credibility with the organization’s medical professionals, which makes it easier to implement bold or innovative strategies.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 16, 2017

She is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. 11 years ago, Dorie Clark was focused on one job — helping companies with their marketing strategies and social media presence. Diversify Your Career for Greater Success.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

Maybe because of the many consultant trainings that focus almost exclusively on the “human” side of things, with very little, if any, attention to the “business” topics. In contrast, are the consultants who highly value strategies, structures, plans and policies. . Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2018

That’s a question Jessica DeGroot sought to answer nearly 20 years ago when she started the nonprofit ThirdPath Institute, an organization dedicated to helping people find time for work, family, and life. Their strategies have since become the “ Vacation Checklist ” DeGroot shares with others at the nonprofit.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 26, 2010

Growth is toward higher states of differentiation and complexity where there are fixed rules and flexible strategies; a principle called Eqifinality, where there are a lot of different ways to get to the same goal. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development. Read more.]. Leadership.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost. PricewaterhouseCoopers (Strategy&).

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 27, 2010

As the leadership group starts to involve others, the focus shifts to: Evolving the Intervention Strategy. « Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vincent Siciliano, CEO of California-based New Resource Bank , was brought in to turn things around and restore the bank’s founding mission, which is to “serve values-driven businesses and nonprofits that are building a more sustainable world.” His strategy was clear. Approximately 40% of CEOs are MBAs.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2012

There are surveys that look at employee morale, perceptions of leadership, clarity about mission and strategy, physical plant, technology, etc. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development. Read more.]. Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do? Facilitation.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

For nearly a decade, I worked at Catalyst , a nonprofit focused on helping women advance in the workplace, consulting with progressive companies who began investing in diversity initiatives in the ‘90s. We created a playbook and training for managers focused on inclusive leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development. We on the contrary developed theories of the process, got trained in the process but in the face of the constant demand for instant solutions lost contact with the process. Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 19, 2010

For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. If so, how can the consultant apply all of these theories, strategies, and ,methods primarily designed for the secular business world to religious organizations? Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development.

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MishTalk

MAY 20, 2015

Businesses and nonprofit groups with 25 or fewer employees would have until 2021 — an extra year — to comply. Some nonprofits that train and rehabilitate disadvantaged workers, such as the homeless or former gang members, could also take advantage of the extension.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

After many years as Executive Director for a regional non-profit, Christina created Sage Strategies, a management consulting firm (www.SageStrategies.org). As Principal, Christina takes the lead in Sage Strategies’ projects for small to mid-sized non-profits. But to what purpose? The story is not over.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Experts are often looking for ways to help junior people in their profession, and younger employees are hungry for training and development. For example, successful agile talent is, almost by definition, entrepreneurial.

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Cheryl Cran

MAY 2, 2017

In addition, Great Place to Work scores a Culture Audit management questionnaire from each company, which reports details such as compensation and benefits, hiring practices, recognition, training, and diversity programs. Edward Jones provides over 1000 hours of training a year to its full time employees.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

At the time, Kruse was running a nonprofit life sciences association, and his job was to organize the annual convention. Michael Bungay Stanier , author of The Coaching Habit and the proprietor of a successful training firm, recalls that in his early days, “I was charging people around $200 for four one-hour calls per month.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

Not many would associate innovation with large, service-oriented nonprofits with decades of history. Army staffers now develop individual strategies to overcome these barriers, connecting families to community services to achieve self-sufficiency.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Unlike design thinking, an iterative process for developing alternative ideas and strategies based on understanding a “user” and a specific problem, social design addresses the needs of whole communities or societies. Consider the collaboration between Dr. Neel Shah and nonprofit architecture firm MASS Design Group.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

But by writing and publishing smaller “chunks” of what might eventually become a full book is one strategy for making things a whole lot easier. The idea of sitting down for hours on end and plugging away at such a lengthy text can be off-putting to say the least. After a year or so of such “piece work,” voila … your book is born!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development. This observation is from the creative theologically-trained mind of OD consultant and good friend, Mike Murray.). Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

After-school programs combine the students'' passions with practical advice and strategies to pay for school and stick with it. For schools that have high dropout rates and low hopes for their students, Common Core may provide a temporary lift, as new grants, materials, and teacher training become available.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In fact, some attorneys even steered the lower-class candidates to less prestigious and lucrative sectors of legal practice, such as government and nonprofit roles, positions that tend to be more socioeconomically diverse than jobs at top law firms. Attorneys cited “family” as a primary reason these women would leave.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In order to create value in India in the coming decade, companies must have a mobile-first strategy. Recently, a Fortune 100 consumer product giant shifted its sales promotion strategy in India from coupons in newspapers to offers on mobile devices. Healthcare : Telemedicine has the potential to explode in India.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2016

Spending to maintain the transportation system we have would seem to be an essential part of any strategy to keep traffic from getting worse. Down the line, automation will allow buses to operate like virtually linked trains at a fraction of the cost of rail. This would be particularly attractive as suburban conduits to major airports.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Most think banks are part of an elite establishment that’s lost sight of the broader mission to serve customers and would prefer they operate more like nonprofits. The cornerstone of bank recruiting strategies should be experiential diversity enabled by a broad range of personal experiences and networks.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

Nonetheless, that official received “ very positive references ” and went on to a top job at another nonprofit, Save the Children. While this may be the smartest legal strategy, it is morally questionable in cases in which an employee is likely to go on to commit sexual harassment, misconduct, or assault again.

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