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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Management

Effective Managers

Keeping a journal, seeking feedback from colleagues, and mindfulness practices can help managers become more self-aware. Developing Emotional Intelligence in Management Practice Self-Awareness Self-awareness is the foundation of emotional intelligence.

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The More Senior Your Job Title, the More You Need to Keep a Journal

Harvard Business

The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal. I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. A journal is an effective, efficient, private way to take a similar break.

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How to Write a White Paper That Wins Consulting Projects, with Gordon Graham: Podcast #4

Consulting Success

Set yourself apart in the consulting business by highlighting your specialty through customer stories and white papers. Gordon is a white paper writer and consultant who has has worked with Google, Oracle, Intuit, and many other Fortune 500 companies. He’s interviewed over 200 C-level executives and written over 170 white papers.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. What will you learn from starting a business that will help you prepare for consulting? Complete our Consultant For a Day exercise. Size its market. Identify how it makes profit.

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4 Key Consulting Fit Interview Questions You Must Prepare For

Management Consulted

Today, we’ll help by laying out 4 key types of consulting fit questions. Why Consulting? Make sure you are ready to share how your experience positions you well for this industry – it’s important that you don’t sound like a consulting-worshipper or share how you hate what you’re currently doing.

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The Consulting Blog’s new editor

Tom Spencer

The Consulting Blog’s new editor. in Management Consulting. We have chosen the talented Ashley Sherman to be an Editor of the Consulting Blog for 2013/14. Ashley was previously a Staff Writer for the NYU International Business Journal. Previous post: A Perfect Storm: Growth in Public Sector Consulting.

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6 Ways to Promote Your Authority and Get Consulting Clients

Consulting Success

The most successful consultants understand who their ideal clients are and who they aren’t. Some consultants jump from one shiny object to the next. This has been great for us at Consulting Success. Some are association newsletters; others are formal magazines, journals, even websites. Here are the three: I.