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Measuring the Long-Term Impact of L&D Initiatives on Business Performance

Clarity Consultants

Are you aiming to increase sales, improve customer satisfaction, or boost employee retention? For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Start by clearly defining your business goals.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work.

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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

It's going beyond what is documented on the org chart and approaching your consultant similarly to a doctor's approach to a patient. For example, I did a customer assessment for one of my clients, which revealed some horrible feedback about the sales process. A good doctor knows human anatomy.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Combining this with data on average spend per shopper enabled them to estimate a retailer’s sales , even before the company had recorded it themselves.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. How many sales do they have to close and in what time period? Step 4: Document assumptions.