David A Fields
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Your consulting firm is hurtling toward the start a new year. Well, technically, every day commences a new year, but your calendar proclaims January 1st as the start of the Gregorian calendar year, so let’s go with that. More important than your choice of calendars is your choice of your consulting firm’s theme for the … Continued. The post What’s Your Consulting Firm’s Theme for Next Year?
Kai Davis
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Over in a Slack I frequent, someone asked how to grow their business and attract better clients. They run an SEO agency and were debating if they should acquire some assets (e.g., flip some sites, start an affiliate site, launch a SaaS) or work on improving their sales and marketing to get more, better, higher-paying clients. I’m a fan of improving + fixing what’s working.
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Consulting Success
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
When should you be vulnerable in your business? On a chilly April afternoon in Chicago, Sam and I were speaking with Perry Marshall. We were in the boardroom, brainstorming ideas on how to create a stronger bond with our community and build the Consulting Success® brand. We wanted to tell our story in a more. Be Vulnerable: A Consultant’s Perspective On The Power of Vulnerability is a post from: Consulting Success.
Consulting Matters
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
This year marked my official 10 year anniversary of starting my own consulting business. It was back in 2010 when I officially launched my website and grew my consulting business from $0-$300,000 in the first 18 months. Sounds exciting, right? I got a vision, had the courage to pursue it, and "Bam!" It was raining clients and money. That's the public story.Now let me tell you my REAL business launch story.
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Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
It’s a blind spot for many companies.
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Consulting Success
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
When Jason Fearnow first entered the consulting business, taxes ate much of what could have been good money from his hard work. How did this mining consultant turn that situation around and eventually quadruple the revenues of his consulting firm, Prime Contract Solutions? In this episode, Jason speaks to Michael Zipursky about the biggest financial mistake.
Markovitz Consulting
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
A client of mine has started to bring some of their employees back into the office. They’re not ending their work from home policies, but increasingly higher ranking staff are coming back to the mothership, particularly for important meetings. This shift makes sense for many reasons, but it’s having three unfortunate side effects. First, the work from home employees are beginning to have middle school flashbacks, where they’re definitely not part of the cool crowd, and they have to eat lunch at
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
They’ve specifically trained for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous situations.
Johanna Rothman
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
A Scrum Master asked, “How can I engage my team during a remote retrospective? People tell me things they think we could change. Then, we get into the retro and I know people are looking at their phones, not engaged. Got ideas?” I do. These ideas refer to safety. That's because teams need safety for engagement. Here are my three ideas: Create the conditions for success: equipment.
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Henry DeVries
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
Value-based pricing compensates you for expertise, innovation and speed. High growth clients will pay handsomely for these and the opportunities are unlimited.
Markovitz Consulting
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
A client of mine has started to bring some of their employees back into the office. They’re not ending their work from home policies, but increasingly higher ranking staff are coming back to the mothership, particularly for important meetings. This shift makes sense for many reasons, but it’s having three unfortunate side effects. First, the work from home employees are beginning to have middle school flashbacks, where they’re definitely not part of the cool crowd, and they have to eat lunch at
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Channel negative energy into positive action.
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutes. Employers think ex-consultants are the bees-knees. There are lots of reasons for this. Here are four of the best. 1. The Experience. In principle, consulting provides an incredible grounding in business. A consultant who does two or three years is likely to be exposed to all sorts of industries and commercial situations. A consultant might gain experience in solving problems with distribution, marketing, leadership, product development, or even analyzing the profit
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Tsavo Neal
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
How can I find the companies that need management consulting? “The last thing I need is a management consultant. What I could use, though, is some good advice. ” -Cal Harrison, The Consultant With The Pink Hair. Don’t look for companies that need management consulting. Instead, look for companies that would benefit from your advice. How can you find those companies?
The Source
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Our real-time forecast for the global consulting industry currently predicts that by the end of 2020, the market will have contracted by around 13% compared to 2019. However, that high-level picture can only tell us so much. Different countries have, of course, been affected by the pandemic in different ways; and international media coverage tends to focus disproportionately on the COVID response of large, developed economies.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
Lessons from an Obama White House staffer.
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes. With virtual internships emerging as the new normal for the foreseeable future, it may be best to examine how to successfully stay on top of your virtual internship and complete it as if you were doing it physically. To make the most out of your virtual internship, it matters what you put in. Aspects such as self-care, communication, morale, cultural fit, and openness to learning will impact the quality of your internship. 1.
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On the Brink Podcast
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Learn how to overcome your mental roadblocks to success. This was quite an amazing podcast conversation with Kelly Ruta. I can tell you that she is just plain fantastic. A clinical psychotherapist for over two decades, she has now turned her professional training into programs to help women, in particular women entrepreneurs, unblock their limitations and unlock their minds to become the best they can be.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Digging up the cost of services can be exhausting and in many cases impossible - especially when it comes to professional services. That's why we've decided to choose transparency over mystery. In hopes of providing you with some clarity and solace, we're laying out the average industry costs of strategic planning, organized by three tiers.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
It’s easy to be paralyzed by doubt and fear during tough times.
Alan Weiss
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
It has become abundantly clear that, short of a vaccine, the virus is going to charge and retreat, charge and retreat. Thus, nothing is assured, long-term, except the fact that your clients and prospects will need help in adjusting. What are you doing to address this? I wouldn’t be crazy about accepting advice from a consultant or coach who, himself or herself, is struggling and treading water.
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Chad Barr
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
In the midst of the chaos and turbulence of the presidential election, today, we pause as a one nation, united, to honor all those who have served our country this Veteran’s Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France.
Kai Davis
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
When it comes to fulfilling your services, do you have a process you follow? Or are you winging it each time you implement and deliver a project? Me? I’ve fallen in love with process. When you have a standard process to follow with a service, you can: Save yourself brain juice. Trust the process instead of figuring it out each time. Optimize your process by identifying what’s working (and what isn’t working) and changing it.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
You need to be able translate your principles into metrics your team can use.
Brimstone Consulting
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
If you’re not leading change, you’re not leading. The leaders we’ve worked with know that change begins with them. No one else. They accept that they are part of the problem and the solution. They are the question and the answer, the learner and the teacher. As Noel Tichy said, “If the leader is not willing to change, no one in the organization really will.”.
Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader
In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a
Makarios Consulting
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
COVID-19 has upended the way we do business. A remote workforce, virtual meetings, video conferencing, and the like are the new normal. If you are a leader used to managing your people in person, you might find yourself at loose ends asking, “How do I manage people I am not physically with? How do I know if they are working productively … or working at all?
Kai Davis
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
The latest episode of The Business of Freelancing features Alex Hillman (co-founder of Stacking the Bricks and Indy Hall), who shares lessons for freelancers and indie consultants from his recently released book, The Tiny MBA. Alex drops a ton of wisdom in this episode about how to tackle and unpack some of the issues we face with money psychology, playing the long game of business, and more.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Yale professor Nicholas Christakis maps society’s long-term recovery from the pandemic.
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