David A Fields
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Imagine your consulting clients are donuts (this is helpful in many, many ways) and the attention you give them is glaze. Obviously, the more attention you slather on your clients, the better. Consulting clients love to be attended to. Substantial, personal, genuine attention creates happy, loyal clients.
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Communication, Presentation, and Persuasion – Using The Pyramid Principle to drive action What if we told you that there’s a better way to create and present your decks? One that will drive action and get you to the most important … Continued. The post The Pyramid Principle appeared first on Management Consulted.
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Consulting Success
OCTOBER 15, 2018
It’s not about how much money you make. It’s about how much you keep, what you do with that, and how it impacts your life, your freedom, your flexibility, your family, your community, and so forth. This is what profitability consulting is all about according to Thor Conklin, founder and CEO of Peak Performance Group. Sometimes it’s as simple as shifting around the mindset from the tactical side to executive coaching and trying to figure.
Clarity Consultants
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Today, education and technology go hand-in-hand. After all, it wasn’t long ago that the online-only college degree seemed unfathomable and, now, you can find online plans from leading colleges and universities across the globe. The post What Does Next-Gen L&D Look Like? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Learning and Development.
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Consulting Matters
OCTOBER 19, 2018
To win business and deliver results - all consultants MUST cultivate their political savvy. While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons. Politics is not necessarily a bad thing. Politics gets its bad rap when leaders operate out of self-interest versus the best interest of others.
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Consulting Success
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Michael was recently featured on Cash Flow Diary. You can listen to it here: Consulting With Success with Michael Zipursky Whether or not you can achieve it should never be in question. It should always be a matter of “how” or “when.” On a recent episode of Cash Flow Diary podcast with Jay Massey, I take you through my story — and all of the lessons I’ve learned along the way.
IMC USA
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Fort Lauderdale, Florida — October 12, 2018. The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) is pleased to announce that Wayne Outlaw CMC® is a recipient of its prestigious Distinguished Service award for continued service and demonstration of strong, long-term support of IMC USA. Mr. Outlaw is the President of Outlaw Group, Inc., in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina. “ Wayne has faithfully served on the National Certification committee for 12 years and served as Committee Chair
Consulting Matters
OCTOBER 19, 2018
To win business and deliver results - all consultants MUST cultivate their political savvy. While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons. Politics is not necessarily a bad thing. Politics gets its bad rap when leaders operate out of self-interest versus the best interest of others.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. In our nearly five-year research program on the subject, we’ve discovered that although 95% of people think they’re self-aware, only 10 to 15% actually are.
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Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 17, 2018
I’ve been pair-writing a book with Mark Kilby , From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. We hit a big milestone today: We published the first complete draft today. We’ve been working on this book for a year. It’s much better because of our collaboration. We reflected a little on our success to date: We both want the best possible book.
CaseInterview.com
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Many people struggle to pursue what they really want, out of fear of what people will think. When I hear this, I always ask, “Which specific people?”. As in, "What are their names?". In many cases, the other person has a hard time responding. They’ll often say, “You know, ‘people.'”. The great irony is that when everyone is so worried about what other people will think, they’re often too busy worrying about others judging their life to judge their own.
Melissa Agnes
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Don’t let the lack of certification in this profession put your organization at risk. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , and YouTube. Charlie Maclean-Bristol, one of the Founders and Directors of PlanB Consulting, joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss how organizations can get around the lack of certification in the profession of crisis management, to make sure they’re partnering with the right professionals for their company’s crisis r
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 18, 2018
kuritafsheen/Getty Images. The feedback in the 360-degree reviews was supposed to be anonymous. But it was crystal clear who’d made the negative comments in the assessment of one executive. Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of La
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The Fearless Marketer
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Today’s Article is by Dr. Amina Aitsi Selmi. Amina has been a client of mine and publishes the Wise Wednesdays ezine. It’s my favorite read every week. I’m taking a few days off this week and asked Amina if I could publish this article from a couple weeks back. Amina’s website is: DrAmina.com. Well, it’s definitely autumn in the UK. As the leaves turn orange signaling the passage of time, the last of the warm sunny days are a reminder of the wonderful summers yet to come and the beauty present i
Chad Barr
OCTOBER 17, 2018
In working with, and observing some of the most successful global entrepreneurs, I have concluded that one of the key components of effective global thought leaders is their consistent and exhaustible ability to publish provocative and powerful content. This content often manifests itself in various formats which includes posting tips and ideas on the various social media platforms, personal quotes, producing written articles on blogs, newsletters, print and online publications.
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 18, 2018
A shift in mind-set can enable us to improve our working relationships with those we struggle with.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Barcroft/Getty Images. Social media can connect us to new ideas, help us share our work, and allow previously unheard voices to influence culture. Yet it can also be a highly addictive time-sink if we’re not careful about our goals , purpose , and usage. Over the last two years, I conducted four different experiments to monitor my own behavior, implementing trackers and blockers in order to better understand how social media usage affected my productivity.
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Johanna Rothman
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Ryan Ripley, host of Agile for Humans, interviewed Gil Broza and me in AFH 102: The Influential Agile Leader. Oh, we had fun! We spoke about the workshop I lead with Gil, the Influential Agile Leader. We also spoke about the conversation Gil and I will lead this coming Wednesday, Oct 17, noon Eastern. If you’re interested, sign up at that link.
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OCTOBER 17, 2018
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Leadership Vision Consulting
OCTOBER 14, 2018
On this episode of the podcast, I’m chatting with our founder and president, Brian Schubring, about Strengths and Diversity. We know the word diversity means many things, but on the show, we’re using it to illustrate how a common language of Strengths can lead us to a greater understanding of the things that make us unique. Most often, when someone goes through an experience with Strengths, they receive their top 5 Themes and those words describe things about them.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. Divya, a director who leads a large engineering team, was invited to a two-day retreat with the CEO and senior executives of her Fortune 50 company. She and 30 of her high-potential peers were excited to rub shoulders with the leadership team. The purpose of the retreat was to expose up-and-coming leaders to broader challenges, expand their network across silos, and, of course, give them an opportunity to connect personally with C-suite executives.
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Henry DeVries
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Would you be willing to demand that wealthy prospects pay to take a class held at a university with a 200-page textbook before you would be willing to take them on as a client?
Strategy+Business
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Three ways to work across deep divisions. For more insight, read "There's No Such Thing as Difficult People.
Martinka Consulting
OCTOBER 19, 2018
“I like being in control. I don’t like to listen to anything from anybody.”. The above is from the owner of a struggling business on the TV show Restaurant Impossible. When my wife and I heard it we immediately hit rewind so we could play it again and transcribe it. I’m sure there are all kinds of fancy names for this as it’s one of the most common traits of business owners, especially founders.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Martin Poole/Getty Images. A recent management column in the Wall Street Journal appeared under the appealing headline, “The Best Bosses Are Humbles Bosses.” The article reported that humble leaders “inspire close teamwork, rapid learning and high performance in their teams.” It even reported that one HR consulting firm is planning to introduce an assessment to identify personality traits that include “sincerity, modesty, fairness, truthfulness, and unpretentiousnes
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Consulthon
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Hi all, My client wants to set a specific and actionable KPI for its Legal Director. This KPI is meant to drive the Legal director to focus more on the recovery of debts that are older than 1 year.
Rod Burkert
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Greetings from La Veta, CO. We are at 7,000 feet of elevation, and it snowed on Sunday … definitely not our kind of weather. One more stop after this (Albuquerque, NM) before we make like geese and head south for the winter. Last week I wrote about the differences between email newsletters and blogs. Both allow you to communicate with your audience of leads, prospects, clients, and referral sources – but in different ways and with different results.
Martinka Consulting
OCTOBER 17, 2018
By Jessica (with a little help from John). Recently I (Jessica) attended a presentation at Equinox Business Law Group titled “ Non-compete, Non-Solicitation and Non-Disclosure, Oh My! Crafting Effective and Enforceable Employee Restrictive Covenants. ” Victoria Bartow did a wonderful job presenting and I learned things that I wasn’t aware of, given I’m new in this industry.
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