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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. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. A good doctor knows human anatomy.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. During some of the conversation afterwards, one of the young American military personnel, probably not much older than me, stood up in the conversation and he very emotionally, in a very heartrending way said, “I’m just so tired of being trained to hate.”

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How to Consistently Get Consulting Clients.Even if You're Brand New and Just Starting Out

Consulting Matters

While your experience, education and methodology matters, what people buy are your unique strengths and how you personally show up and support them. A proposal is not a legal document – it’s an invitation for a strategic partnership. It's a brand new skill that you haven't been trained in. Take Action.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. ” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep.