Consulting Success
MAY 13, 2024
In today’s competitive landscape, mastering lead generation is the lifeblood of any thriving consulting firm. In this episode, host Michael Zipursky talks with Amy Anderson, co-founder of Wild Coffee Marketing, to uncover expert insights and actionable strategies for maximizing lead generation success in the consulting industry. Don’t miss out on a power-packed conversation and skyrocket.
Consulting Matters
MAY 9, 2024
Unclear about what you do and how to describe it? Want to know a secret? All consulting and coaching business owners struggle with this from time to time. Crafting brand messages that clearly articulate the unique value of what you do as a consultant or coach can be VERY challenging, yet it’s crucial for connecting with your ideal clients. Here’s a Story You Might Relate To… Consider the experience of Kamaria Scott.
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David A Fields
MAY 7, 2024
Since you lead a consulting firm, not a firefighting squad, you can err on the side of risk taking rather than caution. In fact, a bias toward action, ambition and audacity may be required to grow your firm past what you’ve achieved already. Eight Steps to a More Audacious You (and More Audacious Consulting Firm) … Continued The post Eight Steps to a More Audacious You (and More Audacious Consulting Firm) appeared first on David A.
Tom Spencer
MAY 10, 2024
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a standardized test widely used for admissions into various graduate and business programs across the globe. Understanding what the GRE is, how it aids in unlocking master’s programs, particularly MBAs, and effective preparation strategies is crucial for prospective graduate students. In this article, we’ll delve into the key aspects of the GRE and provide insights on navigating this essential step in the graduate school application process.
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Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2024
What happens when you have to give a presentation to an audience that might have some professionals who have more expertise on the topic than you do? While it can be intimidating, it can also be an opportunity to leverage their deep and diverse expertise in service of the group’s learning. And it’s an opportunity to exercise some intellectual humility, which includes having respect for other viewpoints, not being intellectually overconfident, separating your ego from your intellect, and being wi
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Johanna Rothman
MAY 10, 2024
My 60 Seconds of Writing WIP this week is from the speaking book. Enjoy! The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for May 10, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This excerpt is from the speaking book. There is no such beast as a “standard” panel presentation.
Consulting Success
MAY 10, 2024
Interested in selling your consulting business? Even if you’re not right now — or don’t imagine yourself selling it for many years — you should learn how to sell a consulting business. Why? Because building a consulting business you *could* sell will help you build a more strategic, scaleable and valuable firm. By the end.
Granite Leadership Strategies
MAY 13, 2024
Most Government contractors focus on indirect rates as their main source of cutting proposed costs. Usually, this is in connection with cutting profit to lower the bid price. Too many believe indirect rates and profit are their only means of pricing changes. Some contractors even take the advice of potentially well-meaning advisors or prime contractors who tell them that their wrap rate must be some number that they convey secretly.
Harvard Business
MAY 13, 2024
Whether initiated by strategic realignment, leadership changes, or market demands, departmental transitions test a leader’s mettle. In this article, the authors offer four strategies to guide your team through a departmental transition while maintaining morale, productivity, and cohesion: 1) Communicate the “why” clearly and authentically. 2) Acknowledge the emotional impact. 3) Cultivate ownership and involvement. 4) Prepare your team for future changes.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Harmonious Workplaces
MAY 10, 2024
Two things coveted by business owners that organizational development can provide. I had the pleasure of meeting a fellow I-O Psychology practitioner this week. As we discussed careers in I-O, organizational development (OD), change leadership, training, operations, and HR, he challenged me with a question, “What do all business owners need, and how can we […] The post Drive Revenue & Reduce Risk with OD & Talent Optimization appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.
Effective Managers
MAY 10, 2024
In the dynamic and competitive world of management consulting, standing out is essential. Embracing the ISO 20700 standard as a practitioner has become a significant differentiator, offering consultants a distinct competitive advantage. Achieving recognition as a practitioner through ICMCI Checklist training goes beyond earning a mere certificate of completion; it signifies a consultant’s dedication to excellence, adherence to global standards, and commitment to best practices.
Chad Barr
MAY 8, 2024
Last night, Laurel and I had the privilege of attending a captivating presentation by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an esteemed American astrophysicist, author, and revered science communicator. Educated at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University, Tyson currently heads the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
Johanna Rothman
MAY 14, 2024
If you use Scrum or any other iteration-based approach to your work, the team plans in batches for that next iteration. The iteration is a timebox. The batch is the amount of work the team thinks they can do in that timebox. If the batch is sufficiently small and your cycle time is sufficiently short, that can work. However, planning for a batch of work is push -planning.
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Harvard Business
MAY 10, 2024
Executives who go through leadership development programs often come back with new energy and purpose, ready to transform their teams, themselves, and their organizations. But it can be challenge to gain traction, sustain momentum, and achieve durable post-program results. Success requires determined effort and patience. To better navigate this reentry phase, remember to acknowledge the contributions others made while you were away, anticipate reactions to your new ideas, embrace the opportunity
Girard Training Solutions
MAY 14, 2024
Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Eric sits down with Jimmy Burroughes, founder and CEO of Jimmy Burroughes Leadership. His company focuses on turning busy, overworked, and overwhelmed managers into high-impact leaders. Jimmy achieves this using his books, a podcast, and 400-500 workshops annually. Those workshops include facilitated conversations, seminars, and webinars that allow people to learn in the flow of work.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 12, 2024
I’m workshopping a new book. For the last few months, I’ve been feverishly writing a book about strategy. Strategy for individuals, small organizations and large ones as well. Strategy for someone seeking to make a difference, and strategy for people who do projects. Starting this week, I’ll be leading a series of discussions and talks inside of purple.space.
Peter Stark
MAY 12, 2024
Have you ever had an executive or manager who doesn’t take your feedback? We have all been there—you feel like you are speaking another language because nothing seems to come from your repeated requests or feedback! Maybe it’s time to bring a coach. But how do you know when it is time or if it will help? And, would they take the coach’s feedback either?
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Leadership Vision Consulting
MAY 12, 2024
In this episode, we're delighted to welcome Stefanie Krievins, a trained coach and facilitator with experience in HR consulting and business coaching. In our conversation, Stefanie shares insights into her career journey, her shift towards becoming a life coach and her innovative approach to organizational change and pro-troublemaking. Join us for this thought-provoking journey, and equip yourself with the tools to foster resilience and strength in your organization.
Harvard Business
MAY 10, 2024
In their work with more than 10,000 startup leaders across 70 countries, the authors identify three common management myths among startup leaders looking to grow their companies: the myth of scaling without hierarchy, the myth of structural harmony, and the myth of sustained heroics. By understanding why entrepreneurs fall for these myths, founders can better calibrate their own maverick impulses and instead rely on rigorous evidence about what actually leads to success.
Girard Training Solutions
MAY 7, 2024
On this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric sits down with Heli Nehama Ozery, founder and CEO of Artemis OD, a management consulting firm based in Silicon Valley. For the past 15 years, Heli has been working with global companies to help them elevate performance and productivity while fostering employee growth. Heli is passionate about making learning experiential and creating “aha” moments.
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 8, 2024
Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The internet took this idea, added a gratuitous semicolon and perfected Too Long; Didn’t Read. This is the mistakenly proud assertion that we are far too busy and too important to read the whole thing, we skimmed a summary instead. At first glance, it seems as though AI is good at this.
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Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c
Peter Stark
MAY 12, 2024
Have you ever had an executive or manager who doesn’t take your feedback? We have all been there—you feel like you are speaking another language because nothing seems to come from your repeated requests or feedback! Maybe it’s time to bring a coach. But how do you know when it is time or if it will help? And, would they take the coach’s feedback either?
1 to 1
MAY 7, 2024
We’re thrilled to announce our new thought leadership partnership with the European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) , a leading CX business network that empowers leaders, people, and organizations in Europe and around the world to collaborate, discuss, generate brand awareness, learn, and grow. Join us as we continue to explore exciting developments in customer experience, innovation, employee experience (EX), design, adoption, and more—all related to digital media and customer eng
Harvard Business
MAY 10, 2024
Researchers engaged with organizations across a variety of industries, each at a different stage of implementing responsible AI. They determined that, although data engineers and data scientists typically take on most responsibility from conception to production of AI development lifecycles, non-technical leaders can play a key role in ensuring the integration of responsible AI.
Harvard Business
MAY 13, 2024
When employees collaborate across silos, there are numerous benefits for organizations. But the employees who do this critical work — also known as boundary spanners or network brokers — may end up overwhelmed, burned out, and can even develop abusive behavior toward their fellow employees. Research shows why this can happen, and suggests three key strategies companies can use to mitigate any negative effects: strategically integrating cross-silo collaboration into formal roles, providing adequa
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Just because we're working with a distributed team doesn't mean we have to abandon time-tested tools and methods like whiteboarding. Digital look-alikes often cramp creativity and all but eliminate the humanity of shared interactions. Hardware solutions are also limiting and, of course, expensive and immobile. In an increasingly digital and remote-first world, it’s important for us to select tools and processes that allow us to mitigate if not eliminate the above problems.
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