David A Fields
AUGUST 14, 2018
Picture yourself presenting your final results from a project to your client. The meeting is swimming along smoothly and you’re basking in the warm glow of another happy client. Then, your client asks, “Buddyboy, could you slice the data one more way so we can see impact by geographic area?
Rod Burkert
AUGUST 15, 2018
Greetings! We are still in Wisconsin … still a few miles from the Mississippi … still at my in-laws … and still working on the interior RV furbishings and modifications. I hope you found my last video about 10x-ing (not 2 or 3x-ing) your goals to be useful. Because for the intelligent, sophisticated, experienced, nuanced business appraisers and advisors we’re supposed to be, we are kind of stuck in our ways!
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Tom Spencer
AUGUST 11, 2018
How do you keep people motivated enough to perform well and work for long hours in a high-pressure environment? It is a crucial question for management consultancies (and other professional service firms), which are – by definition of their core competence – dependent on good performers and dedicated employees. The key to keeping people motivated is job satisfaction.
Consulting Success
AUGUST 16, 2018
Michael was recently featured on Peak Performers Podcast, which you can listen to here: How to Market Your Expertise with Michael Zipursky As a consultant, there’s a lot that you can bring to the table. You’ve worked on many different types of projects with many different types of clients. But this leads to one of the most common problems among early-stage consultants: Most consultants want to be all things to all people.
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Clarity Consultants
AUGUST 13, 2018
Introducing the Clarity Communications list of the best 10 Learning and Development (L&D) blogs. A great blog provides solid content that makes the important points of a topic easy to grasp. To make our list, a blog must be interesting and entertaining while at the same time providing useful information. Each blog on our list is useful for anyone in the field who wants to further their understanding and sharpen their skills.
Management Consulting Connection brings together the best content for management consulting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
CaseInterview.com
AUGUST 17, 2018
You have an enormous advantage in life when you have the capacity to tolerate the truth. Anyone can tolerate the truth when it’s positive and favorable. It’s much more difficult when the truth isn’t what you want to hear. Just because you wish something wasn’t true doesn’t make it any less valid. For example, it’s difficult to tolerate the truth that your skills just aren’t good enough (yet) to tackle a particular project.
Consulting Success
AUGUST 13, 2018
Whether you’re an executive, a VP, a director, or whatever your level is within an organization, in most cases, it’s not about you. Everything that you do is about the company. Even though much of the success the company is seeing is directly connected to you, you somehow feel uncomfortable talking about your accomplishments and contribution. When you leave the corporate world and decide to become a consultant, if you carry the same mindset that.
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 11, 2018
The technology industry is booming: in 2008, Microsoft was the only tech firm ranked in the world’s top 10 public companies by market capitalisation. In 2018, tech firms take seven of the top ten spots (Financial Times Global 500). Top graduates are more interested in joining Google than Goldman Sachs. Start-up ecosystems are exploding as entrepreneurs seek scalable fortunes.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 16, 2018
Daniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images. As the concept of emotional intelligence has gone global, we’ve watched professionals founder as they try to improve their emotional intelligence (or EI) because they either don’t know where to focus their efforts or they haven’t understood how to improve these skills on a practical level. In our work consulting with companies and coaching leaders, we have found that if you’re looking to develop particular EI strengths, it helps to c
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Henry DeVries
AUGUST 15, 2018
Ironically, it wasn’t until Frank King came close to ending his life that he realized the purpose of his life. Today he is a speaker and trainer on suicide prevention as a workplace health and safety issue.
The Fearless Marketer
AUGUST 13, 2018
Being self-employed isn’t easy. Not only do you have to develop, market, and deliver professional services at a very high level, you also need to accomplish all of this in relative isolation. The majority of self-employed consultants, coaches, and trainers run their businesses from a home office (often a spare bedroom). And although this saves on overhead and eliminates the headaches of commuting, it can be lonely, de-motivating, and discouraging — especially when business is challenging.
Chad Barr
AUGUST 15, 2018
Photo by: Chad Barr. I admire the courage of Golda Meir and Nelson Mandela, the brilliant mind of Peter Drucker, the design innovation and foresight of Gaudi, the creation of the new frontier and landscape by Steve Jobs, the painting of Van Gogh, the images captured by Ansel Adams, the financial success of Warren Buffett, the remarkable innovations of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the sound, composition and music of Mozart and Pat Metheny, and the empire created by Oprah.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 15, 2018
Eric Raptosh/Getty Images. Common wisdom in management science and practice has it that to build support for a change project, visionary leadership is needed to outline what is wrong with the current situation. By explaining how the envisioned change will result in a better and more appealing future, leaders can overcome resistance to change. But our research, recently published in the Academy of Management Journal , leads us to add a very important caveat to this.
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Consultants' Consultant
AUGUST 17, 2018
Consultants Consultant: New client? You’re facing learning-credibility tension. You need to juggle the need to know more about the context with the all-important need to look credible. You’re trying to minimise three types of threats: a competence threat, a productivity threat and an acceptance threat. This HBR article is worth a read. It suggests 4 things consultants […].
Consulthon
AUGUST 17, 2018
Hi All, Currently, I am analysing cases and the time spent on each one. I know what is an acceptable time, but I am experiencing a difficulty to decide what is are the outliers in the range of dat.
Martinka Consulting
AUGUST 15, 2018
A little after they opened at 9 am on the Friday before the July 4 weekend I went to get a haircut. I wasn’t the only one and was told it would be about 20 minutes. So, I walked across the street, got a cup of coffee, checked emails, etc. I came back 17 minutes later and instead of two stylists there was only one. After a few minutes another customer told me the other stylist didn’t feel good and was across the street getting food.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 14, 2018
pbombaert/Getty Images. Are you successful at coaching your employees? In our years studying and working with companies on this topic, we’ve observed that when many executives say “yes,” they’re incorrectly answering the question. Why? For one, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do — and this behavior is often reinforced by their peers.
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Consultants' Consultant
AUGUST 17, 2018
Consultants Consultant: [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose [link] leah weiss Kelly sits down with Stanford University professor Leah Weiss whose new book How We Work looks at ways in which we can re-humanize the workplace. [link] book How We Work looks at ways in which we can re-humanize the […].
Management and IT Consulting
AUGUST 14, 2018
After years of advising clients on digital disruption and technical transformation, consulting firms are finally looking within their own business. .
Consulthon
AUGUST 12, 2018
How can one build a compelling business case in regards to multi-skilling and cross-utilization? I am interested in best market practice or succesful implementations of those concepts, especially f.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 15, 2018
Carlo Allegri/Getty Images. Working from home can be a coveted perk, allowing you to opt out of rush-hour traffic and eliminate the tedious banalities of office life. But it can also cut you off from the spontaneous interactions that can spark new insights (part of the reason Marissa Mayer famously rescinded Yahoo’s telecommuting policies). And, at times, the solitude may lead to isolation or the feeling that you’re left out at work.
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Confessions of a Consultant
AUGUST 12, 2018
Keep focused on your best people. Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. At the height of the Celtic Tiger, labour retention was definitely ‘in’. Trying to keep up, I wrote a book called ‘Keeping Your Best Staff’. The book attempted to distil the methods deployed by the best-managed companies to create what’s sometimes referred to as sticky talent.
MBO Partners
AUGUST 13, 2018
Presence is a valuable tool that can help self-employed professionals build better relationships and manage stress and anxiety. Here’s what you need to know about mindful awareness and how to practice it in your daily life.
Cheryl Cran
AUGUST 17, 2018
Right now, if your business or role involves repetitive tasks it is likely that you have already or will be impacted by robotics and automation. It is irrefutable that we need to expand our perspective to seeing that robots, AI and automation are infiltrating all industries and everyday life. Let’s look at robotics/automation first and […]. The post 4 Industries Leveraging Robotics & Automation For Future of Work appeared first on NextMapping.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 17, 2018
Steven Puetzer/Getty Images. At some point in our careers, we find ourselves in need of help from others — whether it’s to make a direct connection to a hiring manager, to gather information on a prospective client company, or to get help in learning about a new industry quickly. However, over the years, we often lose touch with people in our network as work, family, and other demands fill our limited time.
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Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 11, 2018
These are the decisions that are forced on us, the ones that feel unfair, the ones where there are no seemingly good outcomes. How to proceed? Acknowledge that it sucks. That you’d rather not be in this situation. That it’s not what you hoped for. You can return to this step as often as you like, but don’t permit it to have anything to do with the other steps in the process.
MBO Partners
AUGUST 16, 2018
Follow these five tips to build quality client relationships and establish a strong reputation for your business.
LSA Global
AUGUST 17, 2018
There’s a Need for New Managers to be More Open to Feedback? Few people seek out and enjoy receiving negative feedback from their coworkers. We all want to hear the positive – how great we are at what we do. But think of it differently. Wouldn’t you like to get better at your job? Wouldn’t you like your new managers to be more open to feedback even if the feedback points out what is not working well?
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