Sat.Oct 19, 2024 - Fri.Oct 25, 2024

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Thought Leadership, Boiled Down to a Few Easy Steps

David A Fields

Is it hard for you or your consulting firm to become a Though Leader? Not really. The benefits of thought leadership for consultants and consulting firms are well established: more inquiries from more clients, less competition and higher premiums on your projects. Plus, you’re invited to speak at conferences, write articles for prominent magazines and … Continued The post Thought Leadership, Boiled Down to a Few Easy Steps appeared first on David A.

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SEO for Consultants: Your Most Pressing Questions, Answered

Consulting Matters

Let’s be real: SEO can feel like a big, mysterious puzzle for consultants. You’ve probably heard the buzz about how SEO can attract your dream clients without you having to chase them. But if you're wondering “Is SEO really worth my time?” or “How do I even start?”—you’re not alone. If you’re a consultant or coach, I know how valuable your time is.

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How to Master Conflict Resolution

Harvard Business

Learning to navigate conflicts is not really a choice in today’s organizations. It’s an imperative. In this article, the author explains what conflict resolution is, why it’s an essential skill, and how to approach the conflict-resolution process. She offers four steps: 1) Try to see the situation from the other person’s point of view; 2) Pinpoint what the conflict is really about; 3) Think about your primary goal; and 4) Decide how to proceed.

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How to Avoid Strategy Myopia

Harvard Business

Stop prioritizing the urgent, the proven, and the easily measured, and focus instead on the long term.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Consulting Success LIVE Event: Phoenix Mastermind Wrap-Up: A Transformative Experience for High-Level Consultants

Consulting Success

The Consulting Success Phoenix Mastermind, held from October 3-5, 2024, was an exciting three-day event filled with powerful insights, actionable strategies, and networking opportunities for 6 & 7 figure consulting business founders looking to scale their businesses and lives to 7 figures and beyond. We do these powerful 3 day live mastermind events (sign up.

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Small Business, Big Data: How AI is Changing the Game

Tom Spencer

Artificial intelligence ( AI ) is no longer the exclusive domain of large corporations. Small businesses are increasingly tapping into the power of AI to drive growth, enhance efficiency, and improve customer service. However, adopting AI is not without its challenges. This article examines how AI is affecting small businesses and discusses the hurdles that need to be overcome to fully embrace this transformative technology.

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A Strategic Approach for Meeting Customer Demand as Quickly as Possible

Harvard Business

The core premise of the strategic concept of “proximity” is that, thanks to digital technologies, value is being created closer and closer to the moment of demand — not just in time but also physically closer. This means companies can, in effect, procrastinate and wait until customer demand is present before producing an actual product or service. This trend, which is made possible by technologies ranging from AI to 3D printing to IoT, can help leaders make smart strategic decisions, especially

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5 essential tips to enhance your influence skills

Halo Psych

6 minute read “If we want to say something in a way that others will hear, we have to think about them, about their values and their frames of reference – not just about ourselves” – Margaret Heffernen This is one of my all-time favourite quotes when it comes to influence. It gets to the heart of why some people are more influential than others.

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LSA Global Delivers Customized Sales Training for SaaS Team

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a customized sales training program for team transitioning to a SaaS business model. The business sales training program focused on helping sales reps to better sell new solutions to meet key client business needs versus discussing the techni

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

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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MBA Sweet Spot: How to Dream Big and Apply Smart

Tom Spencer

The MBA journey is a deeply reflective process, centered around understanding your goals and aspirations. Being honest with yourself about your strengths and weaknesses is crucial in determining how you measure up and which schools are the best fit for you. While targeting M7 schools is an admirable goal, it’s important to diversify your application strategy by including a range of schools.

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Why Offsites Work — and How to Get the Most Out of Them

Harvard Business

Some high-profile companies have recently issued return to office mandates, which have been met with mixed reactions from employees and the general public. A decade of research suggests a performance-boosting alternative for helping employees build meaningful collaborative networks: corporate offsites. They can be a powerful strategic tool for managers, allowing them to reshape employees’ informal organizational networks to facilitate more sharing of ideas and expertise.

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Our Favoritism Is Creating Chaos

Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

We all struggle with it: We want to be fair to all of our teams, but there are simply some teams we enjoy working with more than others. Some teams are working on projects that will elevate our professional areas of expertise and interest, while others are not. Some teams are succeeding more than failing, […] The post Our Favoritism Is Creating Chaos appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC.

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Press Forward, Step Back: Success Through the Lens of the Keyboard

Chad Barr

Have you ever stopped to think about the most used keys on your keyboard? Interestingly, the space bar and the backspace key hold the top spots, and they reveal powerful lessons for business and marketing. The space bar, representing forward movement and progress, and the backspace, symbolizing correction and adaptation, mirror the daily decisions we make in running a business.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

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.

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Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

In today’s business landscape, sustainability is no longer a niche concern; it’s a core component of corporate strategy. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have emerged as critical tools for companies to measure and communicate their sustainability efforts. These metrics are increasingly influencing business decision-making and thus shaping corporate reputation in a way that impacts customer loyalty and financial performance.

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5 Ways to Deal with a Colleague Who Doesn’t Respect Rules

Harvard Business

It’s easy to get angry when you’re constantly picking up the slack or fixing mistakes caused by a rule-breaker. You might feel like you’re always cleaning up their messes, correcting their work, or filling in gaps they’ve left. The unfairness of it all can also get under your skin and cause resentment. But you can’t just march up to them and demand they stop ignoring standards.

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High Quality

Alan Weiss

You need to have both a high quality offering (products and services) and a high quality buyer (e.g., someone who looks at ROI and not cost, and has money to invest). High quality buyers are almost always people with P&L responsibility, and not staff people (although a CFO or CIO makes sense) and are virtually never in HR. If you have high quality offerings and a high quality buyer you’ll tend to obtain higher sales amounts and frequency.

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20 Percent of Households Making Over $150,000 Live Paycheck to Paycheck

MishTalk

Bank of America has an interesting report on who’s living paycheck to paycheck (PTP). It’s not just the poor. Blame the Fed.

Banking 101
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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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Full circle with myopia

Seth Godin Blog

In 1983, an old article from the Harvard Business Review changed my life. In 1960, Ted Levitt, a professor at HBS, wrote the most popular article in the Review’s history. Called Marketing Myopia, it described a different way of thinking about change and marketing. I was a (very) young MBA student at Stanford and somehow got an interview for a summer job working as the assistant to Jim Levy, the CEO of Activision.

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A Simple Exercise to Help You Check Your Biases

Harvard Business

Five science-backed tools to help managers address the most common DEI challenges.

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Ep096 Brian Walch

Girard Training Solutions

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric sits down with Brian Walch, owner of Shiftfocus Coaching and Consulting. Brian is based in Anchorage, Alaska, and he helps organizations develop their managers. Brian also assists organizations in building best-in-class management cultures. He has a 25-year career in IT consulting and decided to move over to helping managers make a bigger impact while helping people develop in their careers.

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Continued Unemployment Claims Are the Highest Since November 13, 2021

MishTalk

Continued claims look bad. But they are only part of the picture. The complete picture is ominous.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Embracing the Dynamic Role of Chief of Staff with Maggie Olson

Leadership Vision Consulting

In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we chat with Maggie Olsen, founder and CEO of Nova, Chief of Staff, about her dynamic role and extensive experience serving high-level leaders at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and T-Mobile. Maggie sheds light on fostering entrepreneurship, navigating feedback, maintaining consistency in leadership, and the nuances of emotional regulation for leaders.

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When You’re Told You’re Not Strategic Enough

Harvard Business

How to articulate and broadcast your vision successfully.

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Best Sales Qualification Model to Elevate Your Close Rate

LSA Global

The Best Sales Qualification Model: Elevating Your Close Rate Using the right sales qualification model can transform a team’s approach to lead qualification by ensuring that business development efforts pay off. Done right, sales teams can make data-driven choices that improve efficiency, build stronger customer relationships, and drive profitable growth.

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Fed “Playing With Fire” Take Two, Who Starts the Business Cycle?

MishTalk

The Mises Institute responded to my criticism of their video regarding the Fed. Let’s review the rebuttal.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

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

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Intuition

Seth Godin Blog

Intuition is simply a theory we haven’t yet put into words. Once we write down and share our intuition, it becomes more resilient, focused and useful to others.

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What the Best Leadership Teams Do Right

Harvard Business

And where many others go wrong.

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7 Steps to Optimize Employee One-on-One Meetings

LSA Global

How to Optimize Employee One-on-One Meetings: Strategies for Lasting Impact We know from Action Learning Leadership Development Programs that one-on-one employee meetings are the most critical touchpoint of your relationships with each of your direct reports. Research by Steven G. Rogelberg at the University of North Carolina shows that managers who don’t hold one-on-one employee meetings frequently enough or who manage them poorly risk team member disengagement.

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