Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
As the owner of a small firm, what consulting leadership style will help you build a successful business? In this article, you’ll learn effective forms of leadership to help you start, grow, and scale a consulting firm in 2023.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.
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David A Fields
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
You see a lot of book lists floating around the interwebs. Many contain great recommendations of useful books for consulting firm leaders. However, the books on the list are largely not unexpected or trajectory shifting. (I say that despite many lists highlighting one of my books, which is flattering, of course.) Some of the most … Continued The post 5 Unexpected Books Every Consultant Should Read appeared first on David A.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Learn more about how we can help you and your team create a strategic plan with our strategic planning facilitator and ensure your strategy gets cascaded throughout your organization with our strategy consulting services.
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Steve Shu Consulting
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
My level of awareness was heightened this week by correspondence with the brilliant Mac Hodell (former Principal at BCG). We were exchanging ideas about definitive references for management consultants related to the visual aspect of presentations. To cut a long story short, he brought up the powerful idea of maximizing the Insight:Ink ratio on slides.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
A well-told story can help employees and other stakeholders understand how your business works and where it’s heading.
Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
I’m super excited to have my treasured client and colleague Michelle Massman on the show. During our conversation, we explore the power of taking action and openness to figure things out and its impact on long-term success as an entrepreneur. Michelle is a seasoned entrepreneur with a ton of experience navigating the ups and downs of running her own business.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.
Johanna Rothman
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
If you, as I, write frequently, you might wonder where is the “best” place to publish your writing. You might think social media, especially Medium or LinkedIn, is the “best” in terms of eyeballs. (That's people to the rest of us.) That's possible the day, or maybe the week, you publish the piece. That's because social media is all about “instant” eyeballs.
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.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
New research from McKinsey finds they have four strategies in common.
Henry DeVries
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
I had interesting conversations at the pre-Super Bowl LVII Legends and Leaders Celebration in Phoenix on February 10: one on building great business partnerships and another on what's being done to team up to fight the fentanyl crisis.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 between 9:30am-3:30pm Pacific , SME Strategy and our Chief Client Officer & Senior Facilitator, Jenna Sedmak, are offering Complimentary In-Person Virtual "Strategy & Leadership Diagnostics" consultations at our KWENCH office site in Victoria, BC. During the 30-minute consultations, we will discuss and analyze up to three strategic questions or concerns for your organization to help get to the bottom of and address core issues that may be preventing your orga
Rick Conlow
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
An effective team does not come easy. One way to determine how a team is doing involves listening to their comments to one another or others. Check out these seven negative comments. If spoken often then there are days when the manager wonders, “Why bother? I could do this faster myself.” However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills.
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Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
A culture of trust and belonging doesn’t just happen. Here’s how you make one.
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Product design is more creative than engineering, more practical than art, and more hands-on than graphic design Product design is a field that involves the creation and development of new products or product improvements. Product designers work with a team of engineers and other professionals to design and create products that are functional , aesthetically pleasing, and meet the needs of customers.
On the Brink Podcast
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Learn what motivates you and others so you can collaborate better While I have used the Enneagram personality framework with clients, I have never had as great a discussion about it as I had with Karl Hebenstreit. Karl is a certified executive coach, organization development consultant, international speaker and author of two books: The How and Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram and Nina and the Really, Really Tough Decision (for younger readers).
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
New research finds that some employees, particularly high-earning men, are choosing to work less.
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Acing the Fit Interview: Strategy and Approach Motivation Questions Effective Storytelling Finessing Negative Stories In the third article of this series, you will learn about personal experience questions that demand a different approach from motivation questions. The START Framework Many interviewing guides out there espouse the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Action, Result) that purportedly outlines the components of an effective story.
Makarios Consulting
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
What would happen if a significant number of the people in your organization were not performing and executing well in their roles? Can you imagine the employee frustration? The operational inefficiency? The customer complaints? The profit loss? You may not have to imagine it. You might be experiencing it. To function at the highest level in your organization, you need to have the right people in the right seats.
Alan Weiss
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
When a client’s objectives are completely “internal” ask the question “Why?” to find out the business improvement (“external”). Example: The client says, “We want to improve communication among our teams.” Well, you can improve communication among teams until the cows come home without any improvement in the business.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
How to use tools like ChatGPT to craft communications that will land with all the different audiences you’re trying to reach.
CaseInterview.com
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
When I started my career, I thought the right decision could always be made through logic. If I had the right data and applied rigorous logic to the decision-making process, I would always come up with the right answer. While this always worked for me on school exams, I realized that when it came to complex life decisions this approach wasn’t always right.
Chad Barr
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
How many of your goals or dreams you have yet to achieve because you have not yet taken action? Here are some of my favorite quotes that hopefully inspire and energize you to take massive action: “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” Thomas Jefferson “You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.” Zig Ziglar “Dream big, start small, but most of all, start.” Simon Sinek
Organizational Talent Consulting
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
I had just started a new position in Lincoln, Nebraska. We left family back in Illinois, and a significant snowstorm was heading our way across the Great Plains. It dumped almost a foot of fresh snow on our house, and I was out of town for work. My wife was stranded with a new baby and a three-year-old. Without knowing it, my leader called my wife to ensure she was OK.
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
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Part of your responsibility is being willing to put your credibility on the line to back them up.
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
When we think about altering a policy, a setting or even the outfit we usually wear, it’s easy to imagine that everyone is going to notice. In fact, almost no one will. That’s because no one cares about the noise in our head (or the actions we take) nearly as much as we do. You might think it’s going to cause a big commotion when you do something that’s inconsistent, but if it’s generous and useful, it’ll simply happen.
Peter Stark
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Ten Steps to Create a Win-Win with Customers Last week, I found myself one of the last two people at the airport baggage turnstile. The turnstile was going around and around but, unfortunately, my luggage was not on it. The other gentleman whose luggage did not arrive proceeded over to the lost luggage counter. He thought the way he could get the counter person to find his lost luggage quicker was to yell at her.
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