Fri.Mar 22, 2024

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How To Run A Productive Consulting Meeting (Agenda Template)

Consulting Success

Do you ever feel nervous or disorganized before running a consulting meeting? Many consultants — especially when they’re new to consulting — feel uneasy and unprepared when meeting with their clients. If that sounds familiar, you’re probably coming from the corporate world. You had the luxury of having someone else plan and prepare your meetings.

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4 Experiments to Encourage Employees’ Career Progress

Harvard Business

The authors worked with 15 organizations and over 7,000 employees to experiment with ways to increase internal career development opportunities and prove promotion isn’t the only way people can advance. They found that when organizations enable ways to progress that go beyond promotion, it unlocks the flow of talent, skills, and strengths. Employees gain opportunities to grow, develop in different directions, and increase their career resilience.

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. It isn’t a summary of the book and touches upon only limited aspects of risk management and project control that have been discussed at the webinar.

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Fighting Loneliness on Remote Teams

Harvard Business

Remote work offers many benefits, but the lack of community – compared to in-person environments – can cause some workers to feel isolated and lonely. These feelings can impact job performance, sometimes significantly. This article will share four evidence-based strategies that leaders and managers can use to build community in their remote teams. These strategies include reflecting on what’s working for your team, recognizing your team in a meaningful way, providing support for career developme

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Explore the Top 5 Advantages of Incorporating OKRs into Strategy Planning

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Incorporating OKRs in strategy planning provides an effective framework that drives growth, aligns your goals, and tracks your progress.

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5 Ways AI is Changing the Consulting Landscape

Tom Spencer

Within the competitive world of consulting, staying ahead of the curve is vital. Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is a transformative force that is reshaping the way consultants deliver insights and value to clients. Some examples of AI automation tools include ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Fireflies. AI-powered tools can enable management consultants to analyse vast data sets, automate time-consuming tasks, forecast a range of future business scenarios, provide personalised recommendations, and offer

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Don’t Wait for a Crisis to Reduce Costs

Harvard Business

Leaders who take a hard, holistic look across their cost base will find opportunities to reposition their companies for future growth. But they must act boldly and decisively to achieve a competitive cost position. In this article, the authors discuss five critical actions that CEOs and other executives can take to tackle cost challenges. Collectively, these measures help organizations sustain efficiency and redirect resources to invest in innovation, promote growth, and capture value.

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60 Seconds of Johanna’s Writing WIP for March 22, 2024

Johanna Rothman

This week, my writing WIP is from the speaking book. Enjoy! Or, watch the video. The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP for March 22, 2024, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This excerpt is from the speaking book. Do You Worry About Imposter Syndrome? Imposter Syndrome occurs when you feel as if you are not competent.

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The arrogance of improvement

Seth Godin Blog

Who are you to make things better? How dare you raise your hand to help, offer an idea, take responsibility… Perhaps it might be helpful to reframe that feeling as the generosity of improvement instead. If not you, who? If not now, when?

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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I’m in the Optimism Business

Action Plan

I watch a lot of political news. Too much, perhaps. And a large proportion of it consists of bashing the other side. There’s a lot of anger, blame, and polarization. Both Republicans and Democrats tend to do that, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. And after a while, it can be a complete turnoff, which makes us tune out politics. So, it was very refreshing this past Thursday to watch two videos that were quite different.

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