Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

What I'm NOT going to do is show you how to put sizzle around how to explain your methodology to your client that makes them sign with you on the spot because that is not going to happen. Clients don't understand, nor do they care about your methodology. This article is for you. Your shop talk is never going through their minds.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 3, 2022

As companies develop and grow, and the number of projects they deliver increases, business leaders are seeking ways to ensure more efficient coordination of all their initiatives. What functions does this department have in a company? Does every company need a project management office? What is a PMO? In particular, a PMO ?s

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

companies spend over $70 billion annually on training, and an average of $1,459 per salesperson — almost 20 percent more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

High-profile clients MBB firms typically work with leading global companies, governments, and non-profit organizations. Training and Development MBB firms invest heavily in the training and development of their consultants. Training and Development MBB firms invest heavily in the training and development of their consultants.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What you do isn't the same as your methodologies or tools. They are not enamored by your personality assessments, your coaching approach or any other your methodologies because they don't hire you for those. This principle is true even if you have experience from companies like Disney. Your value isn't found in your tools.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When you’re responsible for training or presenting information, it can be tempting to wing the presentation, mainly if you are working on a familiar topic. The most effective training is conducted when the instructional design is incorporated. Simply put, instructional design is a strategy or framework to deliver training content.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows. Comprehensive user support and training resources. Comprehensive documentation and training materials. Offering flexibility for agile or hybrid methodologies. Ensure it offers: Customizable views and workflows.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

Many other companies, including Microsoft and Amazon, also already offer AI tools which, like Google Cloud, where I work, will be sold online as cloud computing services. The question then becomes: How should a company that isn’t involved in building AI think about using it? Package AI for the customer experience.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 26, 2023

While developing learning and development (L&D) strategies for their organization, many company leaders are introduced to the concept of instructional design. Instructional designers are professionals who focus on creating and delivering learning products, such as company training and coursework for educational institutions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. We were nowhere near those numbers, and I believed it was a moral and business imperative to change my company. We do not see people like us succeeding in those companies. Native American, 18.1%

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

When you try to talk to everybody, you talk to nobody and you'll wind up trying to sell your methodologies to anyone who will buy them and truth is - no one wants your methodology. There are so many things that we're experts in and so many processes and methodologies we use to create results for our clients.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It supports Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, ensuring adaptability to different workflows. Comprehensive user support and training resources. Comprehensive documentation and training materials. Offering flexibility for agile or hybrid methodologies. Ensure it offers: Customizable views and workflows.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 13, 2021

After he sold his company, people began picking his brain, especially about the sales process. He targeted clients by industry sector online, created avatars for marketing, and realized he was comfortable working with companies that turnover about 2-3 million pounds. His NEW avatar is someone that is trying to grow their company.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. Although companies can provide transparency and control through various customer communications, the formalized and codified ways they do this is their privacy policies.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2020

For some this means that they want to work with more senior leaders in larger companies. It's not about being paid to give some best practices you have witnessed or created in another company. The third thing you need to do is stop selling your methodology when someone expresses interest in working with you.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 16, 2020

A subcontractor is a self-employed consultant or coach carries out work for a company as a part of a larger project. They can be hired directly by the company or by a consulting firm that lands the work and then hires them, usually for a fixed price. ” Get my Free Value Proposition Creation Video Training!

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 26, 2023

However, because sales are ever-evolving and new technologies are being introduced consistently, it’s important to keep the training far beyond just an annual workshop or two. If not careful, training can become incredibly dull for the trainees, dramatically decreasing their retention rates. However, it goes far beyond that.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

At the end of the day, the main thing that you sell to your client is not your methodologies or even your expertise. Ask about how long they worked for the company. It's how do you transition the conversation from talking about methodology to business performance gaps. It is your strategic partnership.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

First of all, the company should define the objectives of the POC, including the specific functionalities or features they want to evaluate; gather requirements, and establish criteria for evaluating the software. User training and adoption. We’ll dwell on the team training and onboarding in a separate section. Preparation.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2018

In our years studying and working with companies on this topic, we’ve observed that when many executives say “yes,” they’re incorrectly answering the question. This research project is still in progress, but we wanted to offer a glimpse into our methodology and initial findings. pbombaert/Getty Images.

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LSA Global

JULY 15, 2024

How to Deliver Better Sales Training We know from sales assessment data that far too many sales teams lack the proper business sales training , sales coaching, and sales support to consistently meet or exceed their sales targets. Research from RepVue agrees; they found that less than 50% of sales reps. achieved quota last year.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

Wanting something that encouraged more-frequent conversations between associates and partners, the senior lawyer read about what companies like Adobe were doing, and then asked his firm to help him create a new approach. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Effective Managers

APRIL 8, 2021

As one of the biggest and most successful companies today, Google is undoubtedly worth copying in some aspects of their practices. Google’s Project Oxygen defined ten traits and behaviors of their most successful managers and made them the focus of their hiring and training. Key Takeaways.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Got into it through training, sales training work primarily, and then got into all of the processed stuff, customer engagement, buying process research, understanding all of that and then aligning the corporate systems or the sales and marketing systems to what those customer needs are. We’ve been doing this since 1995.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3].

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 24, 2023

In the fast-paced world of education and training, the saying “knowledge is power” has never rung truer. They understand that education and training are ever-evolving, and to create impactful learning experiences for businesses, their team must stay on top of this change. Contact us today!

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 19, 2021

Their study’s methodology included a questionnaire and case studies. They also give hope that the company or department can do it. However, the leader does need to be positive, enthusiastic, and energetic about their company or department. He facilitated Medtronic’s growth into a great company.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Not your methodologies. Coaching, training, strategy, process improvement are all tactics that we use but it's not the essence of what we offer. More for themselves and for the companies that they lead. When it is all said and done, you are the instrument of change.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. First, the benefits. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Companies have long been required to issue audited financial statements for the benefit of financial markets and other stakeholders. That’s because — like algorithms — companies’ internal operations appear as “black boxes” to those on the outside.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

For example, many managers still believe that the errors they make in evaluating their employees can be corrected by training them to recognize the potential errors and suggesting ways to avoid them, while the actual evidence shows that such training can actually increase the number of errors they make.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Betsy Jordyn: We were at a business training where we were learning how to grow our consulting practices back in the day. I don't have this company. I landed this big contract with a company in a different part of the world, never met them before, in an industry I never worked for. And I said no, this is a different market.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

But the truth is, it wasn’t the tools alone, it was also the workflow management process —or methodology—I applied to the tools. Yet most companies roll out software with only technical training, intending for that software to improve efficiency and ultimately, productivity.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 24, 2020

While your experience, education and methodology matters, what people buy are your unique strengths and how you personally show up and support them. Join my list using the link at the bottom of this post and get consulting quick wins and training right to your inbox. It's a brand new skill that you haven't been trained in.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. However, not all management training programs are created equal.

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