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How to Develop Your Tagline to Win More Work

Successful Independent Consulting

Narrowing your niche is an important step in the right direction, but you’ll also want to develop a tagline as part of your branding. After helping hundreds of solopreneurs, I’ve developed this formula: (What You Do) + (The Result) Step 1: Select the keywords that best reflect your expertise (What You Do). You get the idea.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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Soft Skills Training in the Digital Age: Strategies and Best Practices

Clarity Consultants

Yet many organizations still struggle to develop these skills at scale, especially in remote or hybrid environments. Unlike hard skills, soft skills development relies on interaction, feedback, and emotional nuance, which are harder to replicate virtually. Soft skills separate a competent employee from a great one.

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Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Tom Spencer

In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all. For example, J.C. Actionable A strategy is only as good as its execution.

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. While the group liked getting together and engaging in some joint activities — such as goal setting, best-practice sharing, and talent development — people often wondered why they were in the room. Talent developers.

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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Examples Several years ago, my agency represented a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience even though he positioned himself as a jack-of-all-trades. It was hard to recommend him to clients because we couldn’t say with conviction, “You need to talk with Jack Tradesmith because he’s the expert at leadership development.”

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Let’s look at some examples. Transformation and turnaround leader specialized in building teams, measurement systems, and driving results at distressed and growth companies alike, with a focus on the middle market. Translation: turnaround expert. For example what problem was being solved? Translation: philanthropy expert.