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Bad Boss or Good Boss: Who Do Your Work For?

Rick Conlow

They are an epidemic killing off employee productivity, loyalty, creativity and company profit. The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. Offers little training or coaching.

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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. In addition to the normal skill sessions, students in the management level also attend seminars to improve their leadership skills.

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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. He shares a number of ways that he has made this work for him, including aggressively building product.

Marketing 202
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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

And that training does not have to cost a great deal of money or time. If you want to invest in your pricing team to pay you great dividends, this is an important expenditure of company training. The best time to make the training investment is while your pricing team has fewer competing demands.

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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. Let’s go back to our seminar list and take one of the responses: “achieve $100m net revenue.”

System 40
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The Art of Communication is the Language of Leadership

Rick Conlow

Misinterpreted instructions, miscommunication of expectations, or unclear goals can lead to errors, wasted time and effort, and decreased productivity. Decreased productivity and efficiency: Inefficient communication can result in delays, duplicated work, and missed deadlines. In addition, dissatified employees deliver poor service.

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Happy customers are closer than they appear

1 to 1

We provide onsite free training for our technicians. We also have finance classes and sales seminars to help people stay as sharp as they can on their skills. We have the same products and the manufacturers tell us what the price is going to be. We provide scholarship programs.