David A Fields

MAY 16, 2023

Running a boutique consulting firm can feel like sailing the Drake Passage during a storm on a 30-foot sloop. Stomach-lurching ups and downs, and moments of panic interspersed with general exhilaration. While most of your crew and passengers are helpful, if you spend enough time cruising the consulting seas, you’ll encounter at least a few … Continued The post 5 Consulting Clients to Steer Clear Of (Regardless of the Revenue) appeared first on David A.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 15, 2023

Every leader wants to be successful. But sometimes, the results achieved come at the cost of character. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that the most dangerous person is likely gifted with reason but no morals. A blind passion for results damages a leader's reputation and the organization. Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics.

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Consulting Success

MAY 15, 2023

Many businesses do not optimally perform. It can be frustrating, but you don’t need to suffer today. In this episode, Philip (Phil) Krichilsky, the CEO of Innovative Directions, dives into shifting from hourly billing to lucrative performance-based fees. In the consulting business, you are only as good as your billing hours. Phil wants every consultant.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 18, 2023

Join me in this week's episode of the Enough Already podcast, where I'm thrilled to welcome Carol Cox, founder of Speaking Your Brand, to the show. Listen in as Carol shares her incredible journey from studying women's history to becoming a software developer and ultimately finding her passion in public speaking and empowering women entrepreneurs. Discover how the concept of thought leadership emerged as a core service provided by Speaking Your Brand, and learn how Carol's own experiences shaped

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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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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Grasp Servant Leadership principles, popularity, and payoff to begin to excel as a leader. With employee engagement and retention on a decline this leadership approach is long overdue. Robert Greenleaf first introduced the Servant leadership style in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader.” The concept of servant leadership is simple: leaders focus on serving the needs of their team members, rather than their own personal interests or only emphasizing profit.

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Consulting Success

MAY 19, 2023

In 2017, I hosted a podcast called The Year of the Peer, where I interviewed 50 successful people from various walks of life. During our conversations, I asked each of them: Did you become successful all by yourself? They all laughed at the idea, explaining that countless people helped them along the way, providing various. Leadership For Consultants: Want More Big Wins?

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2023

As the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 19, 2023

As a consultant , you are likely working 60-80 hours during the week. Add in 6 hours of sleep every night, 14 hours for meals throughout the week, and 14 hours for weekly commuting, and there is not much time left for anything else. In order to keep your body and mind functioning optimally, you should dedicate 30 minutes for exercise every day. But where should you put this workout?

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 17, 2023

At some point in your tenure as a business leader, your company, department, or team is going to be shaken up. Even without the hopefully-once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, upheavals happen in every industry and with every business as markets flux, innovations emerge, economies adjust, competitors advance, and for countless other reasons. If you are in a period of reasonable calm (excepting, of course, the ever-present assortment of hiccups and fire drills that no company is without) you are likely re

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PM Alliance

MAY 19, 2023

No matter if you’re moving a single department from one floor to another or shifting entire business units across the country, facility relocations encompass vast volumes of information. Who and why are just the beginning. Your stakeholders also want to know how and when. Given the level of disruption even a small office move can have on operations, it’s not surprising that project teams get a lot of questions during the planning and execution phases.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2023

Managers should focus on helping employees maintain their passion over time — not just stoking it in the moment.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 19, 2023

Recently, I had the opportunity to run an “Impact Workshop” that aimed to reflect on our role as advisors (“consultants”), explore our individual motivations, and agree on behaviors that reflect our role. Surprisingly, one of the biggest revelations was how much we underestimated the importance of facilitating and how much of a central role it plays in our day-to-day work.

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Henry DeVries

MAY 16, 2023

“Even most well-meaning leaders can accidentally find themselves engaging in self-sabotaging behaviors,” says author Jenny Magic. Read her advice on five pitfalls leaders need to be wary of.

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Alan Weiss

MAY 15, 2023

Whenever you find yourself uncertain about what action to take with a client, simply ask, “What’s in the best interest of the client?” You can’t go wrong with that. It’s not in the best interests of the client to hide problems and complaints in the organization, to lie about his or her actual performance, to support initiatives that the buyer favors but you know won’t work.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2023

Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

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The Consultants Peer Group

MAY 19, 2023

The consulting industry is a broad, inclusive term that refers to all companies and individuals that offer consulting services, or sellers of expertise. These can range from large multi-national firms to boutique firms that specialize in specific industries or functions and to individuals, all together make the industry. But we all know this and we know it is big business, estimated worldwide annual revenue (2023) in excess of USD 700 Billion.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 19, 2023

In the dynamic and competitive world of business, companies often face a myriad of challenges that can impede growth and hinder success. However, partnering with business consultants through consulting services can provide valuable expertise and support to overcome these challenges effectively. Find out how business consultants can help companies tackle common business challenges and provide real statistics and facts to support the benefits of hiring a business consultant.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 19, 2023

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2023

Five ways remote workers, freelancers, and contractors can stay top of mind — even when out of sight.

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Epicflow

MAY 19, 2023

Schedule conflicts belong to the typical challenges of managing multiple projects with a shared resource pool. For example, the activities team members participate in can overlap or it can turn out that you’ve assigned a task to an unavailable employee. Anyway, schedule conflicts make it rather challenging to complete the project on time and within budget, which in turn will affect the success of other projects.

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Chad Barr

MAY 17, 2023

Frequently, I’m asked, “How can content marketing expand my business?” To answer, let’s view content marketing as a strategic approach of publishing and sharing captivating, valuable content to attract and expand your client base. Success hinges on crafting content that sparks dialogue, generates trust, and strengthens your brand’s appeal.

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Kraft Kennedy

MAY 16, 2023

What is Zero Trust? The ‘Zero Trust’ model is, in short, don’t trust, verify! A technology based defense to shore-up security vulnerabilities, the Zero Trust concept has quickly become the go-to security solution for organizations of all sizes. In today’s threat landscape, multi-factor authentication (MFA) had become ubiquitous.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2023

Three lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MAY 16, 2023

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Actionable

MAY 16, 2023

This 3-step process will help you transition from being paid for your time to being valued for your insight, helping you stand out in a crowded market. Get Free Access The post Achieving Impact Certainty {Annual Report} appeared first on Actionable.co.

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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