Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. Consulting though has many aspects – it’s not just about smooth talking. What are the different types of consultants? What value do consultants provide?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Consulting firms rely heavily on case interviews to find the right candidate and, therefore, you should practice them – practice them well, start practicing them early (2-3 months prior to the interview), and then keep practicing them often. Consulting Math. GMAT and GRE tests are excellent practice for consulting math.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 9, 2017

If you’ve been around the management consulting industry for any amount of time at all, you know how different of a beast it really is to conquer than nearly any other industry. Even if you’ve done a masterful job of networking , you still have to jump through the hoops and meet the stringent criteria of consulting firms.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Today I’m joined by seasoned consultant and passionate leader Ron Carucci. His work has taken him to over 20 countries in four different continents, and he is the author of several consulting and leadership books as well as a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Harvard Business Review. Ron, welcome. Thanks for having me.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. had a diversity metric.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

As we describe in our recent HBR article, “The New Sales Imperative,” the torrents of information, expanding array of options, and growing size and diversity of purchasing groups are leading to a kind of purchase paralysis: Customers are taking longer than ever to make purchases, and abandoning them more often.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

The term “safety culture” is misleading because it suggests organizations have multiple cultures: one for safety, another for production, and perhaps others for quality and for sales. Injury rates, often called “OSHA recordables” are important metrics, in that they reflect the very real experience of your workforce.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. So, without further ado, let’s review the 8 key elements of consulting case anatomy. The 8 Elements of Consulting Case Anatomy. 1 – The Background.

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Makarios Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The CEO brought in a new head of sales. We’ve got to hit 25% sales revenue growth this year. The head of sales got on it. She allocated some time and resources to hunt for new clients, but focused primarily on farming existing accounts to expand sales, capitalizing on the company’s reputation and relationships.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This allows you to personalize marketing, sales, and service interactions at scale. For coaches, consultants, and corporate advisors, this could mean automating routine content creation, enhancing lead nurturing through AI-driven insights, or streamlining the process of delivering personalized coaching and advice.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If you see this as an important step in the evolution of your business, there’s a lot you can do to improve data skills among existing employees without spending a ton of money on expensive consultants or full-time data experts. Is real-time web traffic an important metric for the team to keep an eye on?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

You should see SGA: Sales and General Administration—overhead. But I’ve consulted for a long time. These skills plus my deep agile and lean understanding, would allow me to use the flow metrics to increase agility. Look farther down a little, and you’ll see R&D costs.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

The customized Leading Sales Teams Training for LATAM Sales Leaders was designed to align with and reinforce business sales training and solution selling training programs that sales reps and distribution partners had participated in within the last 6 months. That takes consistent and frequent sales coaching.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. When I joined the company, my branch sales manager — someone I considered a field office general — was black, as were many of my instructors. So why has change been so slow?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s a great challenge to accurately measure the effects of advertising, packaging, distribution channels, media expenditures, social media Likes and Tweets, and sales organizational structure on brand share or sales revenue. Optimizing these micro elements of marketing typically yields improvements in sales revenue and market share.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 10, 2020

Your skills remind of me Matt Olpinski, a freelancer/consultant featured in my article on the best consultant websites : Here’s what Matt had to say about his freelancing website: The main reason why I have the website is because I don’t want to waste time, money, and energy on chasing down new clients. Schumacher. The former.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Their current sales presentation skills were varied and approaches were too inconsistent to easily prepare for and deliver winning sales presentations. Compelling Sales Presentation Delivery Skills Energy and calmness together create dynamic sales presentations. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

As a consultant, I’ve seen dozens of CRM implementations in a wide range of organizations, and consistently find that they fail more than they succeed. For most organizations, it’s calibrated to drive sales, which means sales conversions are the primary metric it follows.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

30 years old and long a mainstay in European consulting, BTS Group has been steadily growing since its inception in 1986. BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 50% Knowledge Gain 100% Net Promoter Score After putting their entire APAC sales team through customized solution selling training , this high growth technology client wanted to design and deliver a customized sales management training program for sales leaders to help meet aggressive growth targets.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We don’t need to track metrics to succeed as a business.” But we have worked with many leadership teams that acknowledged, “We don’t know what metrics to track to get meaningful insights so that we can make strategic, timely business decisions.” A well-rounded scorecard will have the following: Financial metrics. Sales metrics.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

For instance, if they love sports, perhaps you can invite them to join you for a game in the future; if they want to meet more people in the consulting industry, you could loop back next month with an offer to join you and a friend who’s a consultant for lunch.

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LSA Global

MAY 8, 2023

The cross-selling strategy was part of a strategic sales initiative to grow globally while achieving economies of scale across markets, regions, products, services, and suppliers.

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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. Most organizations need higher sales rep.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 19, 2021

Your client is a gas station and the market is so competitive that they make no money on gasoline sales. All the profit is in convenience store sales. While many of the sample case questions are from the McKinsey interview , they are equally applicable for Boston Consulting Group, Bain or any of the other top consulting firms.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Consulting lead generation isn’t easy, especially when done online. Now, B2B decision makers are actively looking for consultants online, and your digital presence can be a huge part of how you generate new conversations with buyers. Learn a framework for discovering which method is best for your consulting business.

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LSA Global

JULY 24, 2023

Their sales and service teams know the challenges clients face and build technology that empowers clients to solve them holistically as trusted advisors. desire, productivity, capability and results and drive higher engagement by leveraging neuroscience to motivate the desired sales behaviors. Learn more about getting aligned.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 23, 2023

The overall objective of the Sales Leadership Assessment was to help to create the expectations, competence, and confidence for the Director of Sales to perform at the Sales VP Level. The post LSA Global Delivers Sales Leadership Assessment for High Tech Company appeared first on LSA Global.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2023

The sales force was being asked to shift from selling products and features to selling SaaS solutions across multiple product lines and service offerings in different geographies and sales territories. This included business sales training best practices for managing results-based sales metrics.

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Jerry Fletcher

MAY 8, 2021

In most cases the answer will be that some metric in the sales equation is off. That, unless deeper problems or concerns surface, is the essence of the third tier proposal which makes the consultant a member of the team on an ongoing basis. Consulting: [link] Speaking: [link]. I find that it is best to be direct.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Sales Manager Training Workshop results were: 98% job relevance 98.4% net promoter score This global and growing Integrated Technology Company wanted a customized sales management training program to meet the unique needs of their marketplace. satisfaction 145% knowledge gain 96.5% Learn more about getting aligned.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What metrics are your competitors using? Perhaps your innovation engine is purring smoothly, but the sales and marketing function lacks the skills and experience to leverage something new. The sales team at one company I worked with is uncomfortable bringing out new designs. Is quality more important than quantity?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2024

In my journey from university to the professional world, I, like many of my peers, initially gravitated towards the allure of prestigious roles in consulting or finance. My first job out of university was in management consulting, a job that lasted around two years.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

If the PM is seen as a driver of AUM, whether through sales or performance, he can command a much higher share of the proceeds than a PM who is not. Selling through third party channels is a direct cost of sales – as third party and independent distribution channels will take cuts of the MER via trailer fees.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends. 5 Steps to Crafting an Effective Sales Strategy We know from our own organizational alignment research that strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams.

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