Successful Independent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
ID 46944176 © Dundja | Dreamstime. It takes practice to quote your consulting billing rate with confidence. The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day. There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. There are lots of ways to do this.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Games have long held a position of power in the world of online content. Even before mobile devices became a popular form of game consumption, computer games were an excellent way for a user to interact with the online world. Gamification is so powerful because it is fun and addictive. People want to keep playing, they want to compete, they want to win prizes, and are happy to learn some important lessons along the way.
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Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Transcript. There are three steps that you can take, three very simple actions you can take on a daily basis that will significantly help you to build your business if you’re not already doing something like this. Let’s get right into it. If you want to grow your business, right, essentially, there’s one thing that you always want to keep in mind and that is that you want to have more conversations.
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
When you hire staff—be they full time employees, subcontractors or temporary partners—to work on your consulting projects, are they a cost or an investment? Your answer to this question affects many aspects of your consulting firm, including its growth trajectory.
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Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
It’s crunch time. That’s right…interview season is here! For many of you, learning how to structure your approach to a case is the most challenging part of the entire case interview process. You’ve been practicing so much that your structurer … Continued. The post Case Interview structure appeared first on Management Consulted.
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Steve Shu Consulting
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Many consulting firms (especially management consulting firms) rely on prior consultants in terms of selling work. Why? Mostly it is because people are the product. In consulting sales, you are selling yourself and your team. More specifically, you are affirming the problem statement, the problem-solving approach, and your team’s experience with solving similar (or comparable) problems in comparable situations.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Micro learning is a powerful tool because it delivers the concepts and information that employees need in less time for greater impact. Just-in-time learning provides an even greater resource for employees to get the on-the-spot resources they need to tackle tough tasks. Here are 5 things you can do to bring this speedy training method into use at your company this summer.
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Don’t waste your time dwelling on your problems — use your setbacks to achieve the consulting success you’ve been dreaming o f. Description: Mitch Russo is a certification business model expert who specializes in working with companies that are looking to quickly grow substantially in size. He understands that making small, calculated shifts in your thinking can change everything for your business and your success.
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
As you target future prospects and projects for your consulting firm, ask that good-looking consultant in the mirror: “Where do you have the right to win?” Billy, the standout voice in my college gospel choir, pined to play The Witch in Steven Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work. Machine learning, for example, may not eliminate many jobs in their entirety.
Markovitz Consulting
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
A couple of weeks ago, I offered five reasons for why we don’t see lean very much in the office and admin areas of most companies: Waste is harder to see in an office Waste costs less in an office Office waste is hard to calculate The customer (usually) doesn’t complain about the waste in the office We’re not very good at talking about waste in the office Naturally, a reader asked me to put my money where my mouth is and suggest solutions to this problem—and given that I make a living as a consu
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
Welcome back to Part 2 of our new video series! If you missed Part 1, where we do a video walkthrough of a case structure, you can check that out here. Today, Jenny Rae (ex-Bain) and Lisa (ex-McKinsey) share their … Continued. The post Top 3 Tips for Case Interviews appeared first on Management Consulted.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
There is a real war for talent occurring today. Many companies are already operating with lean staff, due to high attrition rates and not replacing staff, not to mention downsizing as a result of a difficult economy. In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense.
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Jacq Hackett Consulting
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Excellent organisation and communication skills are at the core of great project management. Here are five strategies to keep you on track.
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Let’s cut right to the chase: if you want to ratchet up the revenue that flows into your consulting firm and the profits that land in your pocket, you need to increase your value to clients.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
It’s difficult enough to stay resilient in the face of high demands and changing circumstances. Imagine adding extreme physical conditions, threats to personal safety, natural disasters, armed conflict, large numbers of traumatized people, minimal infrastructure, and complex, multi-stakeholder relations to your list of challenges. Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’
Markovitz Consulting
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
I spent two days in St. Louis last week at the Global Lean Leadership Conference. It’s a small conference—only about 150 people—consisting of companies that have embraced Paul Akers’s 2 Second Lean philosophy. Companies that wanted to join the conference were required to have the president attend (although there were many other people from those companies as well).
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Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
You will find greater satisfaction and incredible value in your work when you stop working for someone else and start investing in yourself. Description: Elliot Begoun is the principal of The Intertwine Group, a consulting group which works to help food and beverage brands grow. Elliot spent over 25 years working in the food industry before his wife challenged him to pursue his dream of becoming a consultant.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Games have long held a position of power in the world of online content. Even before mobile devices became a popular form of game consumption, computer games were an excellent way for a user to interact with the online world. Gamification is so powerful because it is fun and addictive. People want to keep playing, they want to compete, they want to win prizes, and are happy to learn some important lessons along the way.
Jacq Hackett Consulting
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
As a consultant, your working life now revolves around projects and one of your key roles is project manager. You need to become very good at this because poor project management skills will mean your consulting career is very short lived. Excellent organisation and communication skills are at the core of great project management. Here are five strategies to keep you on track.
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Barnstable Balderdally, EVP at Ghoti Corporation (a.k.a. FishCo) asks whether you can help with his plasma node leadership challenge. Two options: “Yes I can!” you confidently pronounce. Although plasma node leadership isn’t your consulting firm’s focus, you feel great about the lucrative project you’re about to capture.
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Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Each year several clients raise the same issue: the need to get buy-in from a skeptical senior executive in order to demonstrate a concrete benefit that will follow a proposed investment in an ethical business initiative or function.
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
Ever feel you’re fighting a losing battle at work? Compromise and empathy are valuable assets, but sometimes you need to outright get your point across if progress is to be made. Laboring on under a false understanding can just create more trouble down the line – and nobody learns anything if their misconceptions are never … Continue reading "How to win an argument every time (according to science)".
Markovitz Consulting
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
I’m leading a one-day discussion for a group of companies in Denmark later this month, and in preparation I surveyed them about the state of their lean efforts. It seems that most of them are struggling to bring lean to the office/admin areas, even when they’ve made good progress in their manufacturing areas. I’ve seen this pattern at most of my clients, and at the companies I meet at various lean conferences.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
As a busy professional, you know that sometimes you need to prep for important presentations on the fly. Whether you are literally reviewing your notes on and airplane, or you need a mental refresh before running in the door, here are 5 prep tips that will keep you sounding on point and on top of things even when on the go. 1. Start with your key talking points.
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Women in Consulting
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
:: In retrospect, I’ve always wanted to be an author. Growing up in a bookish family, I spent much of my childhood reading. In college, I majored in English literature while dabbling in psychology and biology. But whenever I tried writing fiction, my inner critic was scathing. Creative writing terrified me. And nonfiction? I wasn’t an expert in anything.
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Clear and simple shared objectives nurture employee energy, ideas, and commitment.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Photo by Joshua Jackson. Mindfulness has become the corporate fad du jour , a practice widely touted as a fast-track to better leadership. But we suspect that not all the benefits laid at its feet actually belong there. Our research and analysis has revealed a complicated relationship between mindfulness and executive performance—one that is important for leaders to understand as they seek to develop in their careers.
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