Consulting Matters
JANUARY 5, 2021
Your marketing efforts have paid off. All of your activities on social media and doing speeches worked. You created a proposal, negotiated and renegotiated with your client and the deal is done. And now you’re wondering what to do now. Just like your clients have processes in place to ensure consistently high customer service, you have to do the same.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
JANUARY 7, 2021
One you’ve moved through the stages of strategic planning, from discussing your company vision through to goal setting , developing a detailed action plan is the next step towards implementing your strategy. While many organizations are familiar with action planning and task management as a part of their daily operations, this action plan should be aligned with your organizational goals.
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The Source
JANUARY 8, 2021
Crises have, historically, often led to seismic shifts in the competitive landscape of consulting. As we hurtle towards the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the pandemic, it’s worth stepping back and taking stock of how, exactly, this particular crisis has changed the rules of the game for consulting firms. In our view, there are five key trends that your firm needs to have on its horizon right now—because if you’re not keeping abreast of these trends, your competitors certainly are.
David A Fields
JANUARY 5, 2021
Consulting engagements come in many flavors. Your consulting firm’s work for a client could range from answering questions in real time based on your knowledge and experience, to developing research-based recommendations, to constructing and implementing complex solutions. Where does advisory work fit in, and should you construct contracts for advisory work differently?
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Clarity Consultants
JANUARY 6, 2021
COVID-19 fundamentally altered the learning landscape in 2020. Organizations typically had to adopt a work-from-home model with little notice, causing them to focus heavily on simply maintaining typical operations. As a result, training initially became an afterthought, as there were more pressing matters. Today, COVID-19 is still an issue. However, much of the changes that were first necessary now feel.
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Management Consulted
JANUARY 7, 2021
Looking for sample case study interviews with answers? Look no further! In this article, we’re walking you through some of the best case study samples on the web. These case studies simulate the virtual case interview environment and represent cases… Read Article. The post Case Study Samples: Video Examples With Answers appeared first on Management Consulted.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 8, 2021
You don’t need to pretend to have all the answers.
Rick Conlow
JANUARY 7, 2021
Success quotes can literally change your life if you truly digest them. That is to say, you can accelerate your career development. Numerology consider the #22 one of the most powerful numbers. It represents focusing on dreams or desires and transforming them into reality. Also, people associated with this number are confident, and positive. To sum it up, they are like “angels” able to achieve impossible things.
Johanna Rothman
JANUARY 5, 2021
Michael Mahlberg taught me something cool last week. We're writing an article together. Part of the article is about forecasts. I was ranting and raving about how to help people see their confidence levels. He pointed me to this slideshare: Lightweight Kanban Metrics (in German). (Don't worry about the language.) Go to slides 24, 25, and 26. I'll use his slides as inspiration when I walk through an example below.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
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The Fearless Marketer
JANUARY 4, 2021
In the new Disney movie, Soul, the hero, Joe, has just achieved his dream, playing in Dorothea Williams’ jazz band, and he says, “I’ve been waiting on this day my entire life… I just thought it would feel different.”. And Dorothea replies: I heard this story about a fish. He swims up to this older fish and he says, “I’m trying to find this thing they call the ocean.”.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 5, 2021
Seven tips to guide the conversation.
Rick Conlow
JANUARY 6, 2021
Do you want to become a better leader? This leadership training will give you 3 strategies to accelerate your career development and team success. Unfortunately, leadership failures litter organizations across the globe. Recent studies say 82% of managers fail. In addition, too many managers are self-focused, untrained, or overwhelmed. As a result, employees are collateral damage and employee engagement is horrible in most places.
Alan Weiss
JANUARY 6, 2021
The mistake most organizations make with their investments is in desperately trying to develop all performers to perform at the top levels. That kind of performance isn’t merely a question of skills development, no matter what human resources latest fad of the month is, but rather one of behaviors and talents such as discipline, accountability, focus, commitment, mental agility, and so forth.
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Consultant Journal
JANUARY 4, 2021
Once you pass the Startup phase with your consulting business, you’re ready for Scale Up. If you’re at Scale Up, you’re probably hitting a number of targets: You have $3,000 to $8,000 a month in recurring monthly income. You’re focused on your business as your main work. You’re open to ideas, input and training so that you can make the mindset shift to building a business team, scaling your business, delegating work, and getting ready to pay yourself a six-figure in
Harvard Business
JANUARY 7, 2021
Your employees are waiting to hear from you.
On the Brink Podcast
JANUARY 4, 2021
Learn how great content gets your business found on the web! As content marketers , we at SAMC know the power of great content. Search is all about being the authority on a topic so that search engines know you, prioritize you and deliver potential customers to you. Today’s podcast is with Verity Craft, and as you will hear, she and I spend valuable time digging deeper into the power of content marketing, the changing role of thought leaders and the challenges of social media.
Alan Weiss
JANUARY 2, 2021
The stock market and the economy are two different things, not intimately related. While the market reaches record heights, businesses are closing on Main Street. One thing we can learn is this: The less money you have, the more important are critical thinking skills, particularly decision making. Apple can make a $40 million error, and it’s barely a footnote on the financial reports.
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Consultant Journal
JANUARY 4, 2021
If you’re in the startup phase of your consulting business, you’re probably working through some common processes: What’s my business? How do I make my business stand out? How do I get clients and how do I keep clients coming in the door? How do I price, set fees, negotiate with clients, put together quotes and get business? What systems do I need in place to get paid, manage workflow and grow?
Harvard Business
JANUARY 4, 2021
Make the most of that unnerving stretch of time.
Brimstone Consulting
JANUARY 4, 2021
Tired? Stressed? Here’s how to build your personal resilience so you can help cultivate your team’s resilience. Psychology Today describes resilience as “that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes.”.
On the Brink
JANUARY 5, 2021
Photo courtesy of Texas Monthly. "We didn't hire Becky to make history," Popovich said. "She earned it.". When Becky Hammon joined the San Antonio Spurs pro basketball team as an assistant coach in 2014—the first woman in NBA history to hold this position— Barack Obama congratulated her on Twitter. Boy, have times changed! And when the Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich was ejected from a December 30th game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Hammon replaced him to become the first woman to act as head
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Consultant Journal
JANUARY 4, 2021
If you’re at this stage of your consulting business journey, you’re ready for a change. In the Reboot stage, you give your existing business processes, branding and offer a shake, so that you can get back on track. If this is you, you’re probably experiencing the following: You’ve had some initial successes, but you’ve hit a road block.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 4, 2021
A military pilot, an entrepreneur, and a business professor discuss the professional struggles and strengths that come from their ADHD.
On the Brink Podcast
JANUARY 7, 2021
Learn how to bring your organization "in tune" through music! What if you could listen to a podcast in silence? What might you hear? Your heart beating. Your breathing. Your mind quieting down so it can step out and look inside. What if you could learn how to use music to help your business find its own harmony, its melody, its rhythm, and its beauty?
Rod Burkert
JANUARY 5, 2021
Have we ever meant “Happy New Year” quite as much as we do at the start of 2021? Yet, we’re also starting 2021 a little unsure what it will bring … because 2020 blindsided all of us, and we can’t quite relax just yet, can we? So, it’s hard to know what to say to you here as a way to welcome our analytical souls to the dawn of 2021.
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
JANUARY 5, 2021
As we stand on the cusp of a new year, it is a perfect time for a refresher on company vision: how to establish it, how to get people to align around it, and how to execute it. Establishing a Vision Establishing a vision for your business is the first step in developing a solid strategy. Your company’s vision should be a realistic statement of aspiration based on what you are today and what you want to become in the future.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 8, 2021
Three actions leaders can take to promote honest discourse and healthy civic engagement.
Kai Davis
JANUARY 5, 2021
I have a bone to pick with a phase in the consulting industry: feast or famine. Feast. When work is good. You’re booked solid. Famine. When work is bad. Your pipeline is dry. I think there’s another part here that we aren’t seeing: the time and attention we’re able to put towards working on our own business. When you’re in feast mode, you’re booked solid and turning away work.
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