Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Do these consultants have other key skills like program management, executive coaching, and creating cross-functional buy-in? Then synthesize it into a “tag line” for your LinkedIn profile, email signature, résumé/bio, and business card. Translation: philanthropy expert. Absolutely, but that’s not what makes them unique.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 27, 2013

With Twitter and Instagram being notorious for hashtags, Facebook users were already tagging posts and statuses to no avail, allowing the network ample opportunity to extend its reach even further by embracing the popular trend. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2018

Most executives I coach struggle with balancing parenting and work duties. One of your primary jobs as an executive is to anticipate the future and set a course to achieve success. Many executives I coach take two hours a week to create white space. My sons compile all the tagged sections into one document.

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Comatch

JULY 27, 2022

If you’re looking for a high-performing individual, this comes with a certain price tag. Be prepared to allocate enough budget to avoid attracting an under-experienced executive. Many businesses make the mistake of trying to save money on wages by compromising on the qualifications and experience of the candidate.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Or you can see the role through a more meaningful lens as someone who comes alongside senior executives in order to speak truth to power and influence decisions that benefit the entire system. Once I started doing that, customer assessments are a nice price tag. Aligning the Senior Team Around Assessment Objectives (1:45).

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Kraft Kennedy

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With Managed Desktop, we’re leveling the playing field and providing accessible desktop management to firms of all sizes, without the prohibitive price tag. Operating System Upgrades Windows used to release updates once every several years, meaning those unwieldy spreadsheets would only rarely be dusted off and updated.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

If you are simply using them for blogging (executive announcements and memorandums) and one-way communication, you are missing their true value. Too many internal communication functions still practice one-way communication and these platforms are about having conversations and co-creating.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

If you are simply using them for blogging (executive announcements and memorandums) and one-way communication, you are missing their true value. Too many internal communication functions still practice one-way communication and these platforms are about having conversations and co-creating.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 23, 2016

If you are simply using them for blogging (executive announcements and memorandums) and one-way communication, you are missing their true value. Too many internal communication functions still practice one-way communication and these platforms are about having conversations and co-creating.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

People get tagged as “talented” when they fit in (or pretend to). Smart senior leaders understand this, and they tend to fight and work to get the exposure and familiarity to executives from their “tribes.” Too often, CEOs say they’re looking to promote talent but end up promoting familiarity.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 8, 2009

I suspect the poor design, slow performance, and frequent shutdowns can be traced to nobody working the linkages between the executives who were strategically visioning and the programmers who had to execute on it. The sad part is, the programmers will probably get the blame when its really the executives fault. Who f *d up?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Consider how Jeff Hudson, the CEO of Venafi, described internet security when addressing executives in Global 5000 businesses: He likened cryptographic keys and digital certificates — which identify webservers, software, devices, apps, and critical infrastructure — to the tags attached to every cell in the human body.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

This information is vital in the pre-RFP stage for timely information to your leadership team on the pricing direction, the technical team for feedback on their solutioning price tag, and to your subcontractors, as you shape the top-down target prices. Why would you want to do that? Let us cure this affliction!

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

KPMG CONSULTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE: John Veihmeyer. A major part of their worldwide marketing campaign was the tag line, “It’s time for clarity.” Richard Solomons – Chief Executive of InterContinental Hotels Group. KPMG CONSULTING WEBSITE: www.kpmg.com. KPMG CONSULTING HEADQUARTERS: Amstelveen, Netherlands.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 8, 2010

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that one of the main things I do as a nonprofit consultant is serve organizations as an Interim Executive Director (IED). Tags: interim Nonprofit executive director management. This is one of those situations. associated with a "real" employee. Getting things right is.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Many executives ask me what artificial intelligence can do. For instance, building a photo tagger requires anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of pictures (A) as well as labels or tags telling you if there are people in them (B). But lately the media has sometimes painted an unrealistic picture of the powers of AI.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

Because of the ability of health insurance companies and benefit executives at leading pharmaceutical companies to negotiate discounts and benefit packages, many in the industry argue that list prices on prescription drugs aren’t actually a reliable indicator of what Americans pay. From 2010 to 2015, prescription medicine revenue in the U.S.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Topics they deal with include strategy execution, leadership, people, processes and tools. Small businesses often lack the execution power for new initiatives, as everyone is busy with their day-to-day tasks. They help you analyze and optimize your marketing efforts. How much will spend for a specific outcome is not 100% predictable.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Here's a wonderful quote from a meeting I attended this morning of Santa Cruz County (California) nonprofit Executive Directors, discussing their response to the current financial crisis: "Don't panic. Tags: surveys crisis Nonprofit economy. Not because there isn't reason to panic - there is - but because panic doesn't work."

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 15, 2008

I am wondering about the duty line between Boards and an Executive Director of a non-profit. executes his/her goals and objectives (i.e. Equally important, and even more frequently forgotten, is the board's role in supervising a successful Executive Director. I have a question for you and your readers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Its Remuneration Committee employs several key performance indicators (KPIs) to guide the compensation of senior executives. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Tags: blogs awards carnival of nonprofit consultants honors. Throughout September the organizations with the most positive reviews will be featured on GreatNonprofits and Guidestar, the premier site for philanthropic research on the Web.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 6, 2010

Now that the ink is dry and the papers filed and the merger official and done, I can publicly reveal that the Interim Executive Director assignment I was working on for the past 8-1/2 months was for the Support Network for Battered Women (SNBW), and that as of April 1, 2010, Support Network is now a division of the YWCA of Silicon Valley.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 17, 2019

And it was here that I learned that I wanted to be on the execution side rather than on the consulting side, and also that I wanted to work in a startup rather than an established corporate structure. So if you’re trying to track the whole lifecycle of a good, you’ll need to have a unique way of tagging and identifying the good, right?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2010

As regular readers of this blog probably know, I do a lot of Interim Executive Director jobs. Tags: supervision management. The idea is that the best "management style" is to be able to put your own preferences aside and find the best approach for any individual employee and situation. At least, that's been my experience.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 5, 2009

This is the question that has haunted many a nonprofit Executive Director and Development Director. It is up to the Executive Director and Development Director (if you have one) to personally craft the ask, just as you would any Major Gifts ask, based on what you know of your Board member's giving history, occupation, net worth, etc.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

I'm still fully busy serving as an Interim Executive Director for one agency, and squeezing in some retreat facilitation and training when I can. Tags: taglines sector Nonprofit jobs. I've spent some time this morning and earlier this week in phone consultation with a for-profit company, and it's been great.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 9, 2009

Thinking of the small, local nonprofit where I'm currently the Interim Executive Director, and other like-sized organizations, I wondered if we were now valuing the volunteers more than the staff. Tags: volunteers value accounting. So, what do you think of the $20.25/hour hour figure? that bring our figure up to $16.80/hour.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

A side benefit is that we can also track the online interactions while reviewing the recording, thanks to simple tags we embed in the chat stream marking each section of the presentation. Happier employees and better execution, which translates to a better product, which translates to happier, more loyal customers.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 18, 2009

groused one nonprofit executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. I'm currently serving as Interim Executive Director at an agency with nine staff members. Tags: volunteers Nonprofit barack obama economy. Can you make them stop calling?” Of course, we all know, nobody just "becomes" a donor. Donors must be cultivated.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 7, 2008

I was completing nearly one-and-a-half years as the Interim Executive Director of Grail Family Services in San Jose. After a search of several months, and interviewing some wonderful candidates, we wound up re-hiring the previous Executive Director, who was once again available. First the busy part.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 11, 2007

I am currently in the midst of my third assignment as an Interim Executive Director. That explains why I like these jobs, but, if your nonprofit is in the midst of an executive transition, why should you hire an outsider consultant as your Interim instead of somebody already on staff? While the Board, staff, funders, etc.,

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 23, 2010

These larger boards serve more in an advisory or fundraising or even just a visibility function, with the real work being done by a more manageable governing or executive board. Tags: boards of directors Nonprofit. Another typical bit of generally accepted knowledge is to keep your board to an odd number of members.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 8, 2008

I've now been an Interim Executive Director three times, and it's always interesting, but this last assignment went on for so long (nearly a year-and-a-half) that it became in many senses more like a "real job." Tags: grant writing Nonprofit leadership future consulting. Yesterday's post covered the busy part.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The non-profit's executive director was certain the project needed $27,000 and was reluctant to push for more. Tags: stakeholders Nonprofit success funding expectations. Delivering food and humanitarian care for people affected by HIV and AIDS in South Georgia is important. Copyright 2010 William Biggs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. “You’re always moderating yourself,” agrees a Latina executive , who feels Latinas “are always tagged with the emotional thing.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 1, 2007

I am helping them out as the Interim Executive Director while we work on some long-term strategic issues and decisions. Tags: volunteers Nonprofit fundraising human race. One of my current nonprofit consulting clients is Grail Family Services in San Jose (GFS), California. Thank you for your support!

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