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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Also, the larger the firm, the more overhead the billing rate needs to cover such as partner salaries and bonuses, real estate, advertising, and training.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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How to Create an Effective L&D Strategy

Clarity Consultants

Along with prioritizing training, you must align what will be offered and the needs of the organization and the learners. Identifying associated benchmarks to gauge the success of the program is also essential. Embrace Flexibility and Personalization Rigid training programs are typically less successful than those that are flexible.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

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Is the Confidence Gap Between Men and Women a Myth?

Harvard Business

While the research has not been specifically remedy-directed, where gender-based bias has been discovered some have sought to counter it with HR policy changes, training, awareness campaigns, equal opportunity legislation, and more. No small part of these countermeasures have been directed at women themselves.

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A Success Mindset Cultivates Achievement

Rick Conlow

Many professional teams with tons of talent fail to win when players don’t operate as a team. Becoming successful at whatever it is, takes initiative to develop personal talents and abilities. In addition, do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of successful people? The people around you are important.

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5 Steps to Disrupt and Improve Your Talent Pipeline

Organizational Talent Consulting

Most leaders struggle to find and develop the ready-now talent they need. However, industry experts forecast that your talent challenges will become increasingly severe by 2030. But with a few steps, you can disrupt your processes to improve your talent pipeline position. Workforce challenges are nothing new.

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