Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 16, 2016

So here I am, launching this blog , which will help you become a better management consultant and solopreneur. Along the way, one of my projects was a career game-changer. I was hired as an independent consultant to help Clorox implement a vendor-management system and contractor-compliance process.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 13, 2015

On the job, you may have 3 months to sink your teeth into the gory details of a project, with full research capabilities and the freedom to take a comprehensive look at every area that warrants attention. Interestingly, however, we were trained at MBB that doing a project for more time gets you NOWHERE.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. On the other hand, consultants who do project work should have résumés that clearly reflect the types of projects they have done.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 31, 2022

My first encounter with this subject came from one of my sociology classes at Stanford, which focused on status hierarchy dynamics. Then, we’d watch classmates who had not yet been exposed to the theory work on a collaborative project. There was an experiment with hiring managers who were asked to evaluate a stack of résumés.

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QEmploy

JUNE 10, 2019

In order to give you a head start we have compiled a list of 60 must-listen IT podcasts covering every possible subject. Furthermore, they explore every possible subject, including coveted topics in the IT industry. Among the explored topics: Cloud Computing, Open source, AppDev, Serverless and more. All About Android.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

Combine this information with the past performance meta-data tracked across your business capture, contracts, and projects organizations to gain powerful insights into your value proposition. The types of pricing information that are routinely requested include the following subjects. Measure pricing competitiveness.

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Prudent Pedal

MARCH 27, 2020

Here are my Work and Personal lists: Work Manage business-related issues created by the crisis. Google Tag Manager: I stumbled across Loves Data on YouTube. I feel like the subject of an episode of Hoarders! Her example inspired me to share my own lists, both Work and Personal, with my prudent readers. More good stuff.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Here is an example: Recently I had a catch up meeting for a project I’m working on. When we avoid , we use methods to steer clear of what we consider to be difficult or dangerous topics. We will change to subject in order to steer the conversation to something that feels safer. Withdrawal.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Projections : The real hot-button is projections and their validity. Regular readers of this newsletter, and viewers of my video podcasts, know my feelings about projections in the buy-sell world, I feel they’re useless. Everybody projects a nice steady growth rate with even rosier growth of the bottom line.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2015

Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. This will be of particular interest for students and recent graduates who are looking to pursue a career in the management consulting industry. Kearney: 40-50 hour weeks, depending on project-needs. Tom: What is A.T.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 14, 2014

Apart from finally getting the opportunity to meet my fabulous friend and colleague, Karen Freberg , for the first time in person, I got to spend a day watching presentations and engaging with academics (a combination of both professors and students) on their research projects and papers.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Here is an example: Recently I had a catch up meeting for a project I’m working on. When we avoid , we use methods to steer clear of what we consider to be difficult or dangerous topics. We will change to subject in order to steer the conversation to something that feels safer. Withdrawal.

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freshminds

JANUARY 20, 2016

So how do you manage people where you do not have the practical knowledge of their subject and the job they do? Understand the topic you are working on - To be a useful, co-operative and approachable team member in a tech focused team, don't isolate yourself from the group by seemingly having no relevant knowledge at all.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Take these examples from a recent survey we did with managers and employees: “We had an assistant who created a very adversarial atmosphere. ” “Instead of confronting a problem in a project plan, it was whispered about. Management chaos. We walked on eggshells around her. Her boss wouldn’t even cross her.

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Nash Consulting

APRIL 27, 2021

In one research project, subjects were hooked up to electrodes monitoring their brain functions and put into a virtual reality situation in which they were walking down a dark alley at night with the sound of footsteps approaching them from behind. And – bottom line – unapproachable managers are ineffective, as you can well imagine.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful About Proclaiming "Failed Management Movements"! Last week, I got a call from a consultant who lamented the “failure of all those management movements.” ” As usual in these conversations, the caller went on to explain how his particular idea was what leaders and managers really needed.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

About once ever 12-18 months my partner and I take teams of people into developing nations to work in villages to build clinics, or schools, or other projects to assist the local community as a whole. This is the subject of my next three posts here. How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance?

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Whether you are a management consultant, sales consultant, or design consultant, reading these blogs (and most importantly, taking action on their advice) will help you improve your consulting business. I wrote one article a week on the topic of marketing for independent professionals.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2018

Practice time management together. He’s also learned how to plan ahead to create balance and dedicate time to think strategically , and he’s picked up some other time management tricks. Raymond jumped to this conclusion because Jay had interrupted during his presentation about his new project in front of the CEO.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Developments emerge and are always subject to un- intended consequences in action as development is moved toward its purpose. Boundary management means the protection and support of a differentiated development culture and the managed change of this culture when appropriate. Career Management. Crisis Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 16, 2010

For the last 50 years it has not been fashionable to talk about moral development, yet the subject of moral development is all about being a grown up. ————————— For more resources, see the Library topics Consulting and Organizational Development. Career Management.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 26, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. I once worked with a guy who had done several projects at a large auto manufacturer. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Friday, June 26, 2009. NumbaJockey.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Perhaps you don’t have an angry mob yelling at your meeting but there are lots of crises that managers face when a meeting goes off the rails. The discussion shifts from topic to topic with no resolution. It always falls to the manager to impose order. Chris is trying to staff projects. Pandemonium.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. As with anything that matters in the workplace, the key to vacation compliance is to measure it and manage it. Make missed vacation a subject for feedback and a topic in development discussions.

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Nash Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

If meetings are accomplishing their goal and helping people to better manage their work and work relationships, people stop seeing meetings as an assault on their precious and finite time and begin to view them as an opportunity for better performance, increased productivity, and most importantly, greater workplace satisfaction.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

Topics Covered: How to Write a Resume That Will Get You the Interview. Your cover letter can make a big difference when applying for a management consulting position. Dedicate a section to explain why you’re the right fit as a management consultant. How to Write a Cover Letter That Will Get You the Interview.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

It may also cause you to trust your boss less, says Nancy Rothbard, the David Pottruck Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Change the subject. ’” Your goal, says Rothbard, is to “change the subject.” “Say, ‘I see that time is getting away from us.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In the study, the researchers asked two sets of subjects to wait in a room where there were two plates of food. Perhaps the idea of ego depletion caught on because it satisfies a need to justify why we sometimes do things we know we shouldn’t, such as slacking off at work when we should be finishing a project.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“You get more done and you advance the projects you care about and are responsible for,” which means “you’re more likely to be noticed, get promoted, and receive raises.” “Blogging about your subject on LinkedIn or for your company newsletter” is another way to show what you know.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

Believe it or not, there was a time when things like involving people in action-planning, group decision-making, action research, feedback, high-performance/high-satisfaction team-development, leadership and management coaching, the stages in the consulting process—and a host of other standard OD practices—did not exist. polarity management).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. And who’s in the best position to offer advice?

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Here are the three types of cognitive load: Intrinsic Cognitive Load: This is the inherent complexity of the subject matter being taught. Some topics are naturally more complex, requiring more cognitive resources to understand. Break down complex topics into smaller, digestible modules to minimize intrinsic cognitive load.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

They assume that these interviews will be of a very different kind to the consulting case interview, a belief which is contributed to by the fact that there just isn’t a lot of material that covers the topic. However, you will almost certainly not need to go into deep technical detail on these topics.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I’m not an expert on this topic. My goal is to have a dialogue around an important topic that has many taboos and stigmas surrounding it. Depression and suicide are difficult topics to talk about openly. The latter tends to be highly subjective and individual. Some things once said can never be taken back. .

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Buzzsprout

JULY 13, 2023

Agencies work to match podcasts with sponsors and manage the ad campaign. Show input or participation: Allow subscribers to vote in a poll or give topic suggestions. Creators can create and sell their merch while also raising funds for specific causes or projects. Write a book based on podcast themes or topics.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That discussion and the flood of emails I’ve received (with very polar points of view) has probably been one of the most controversial topics I’ve written about — ever. I had no idea that I inadvertently walked into such a controversial subject. Clearly, people are very passionate about their music. Seriously… no idea.

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