Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2020

"Playing small" is making choices that put a lid on your true potential. It's the part of you that wants to protect your comfort, security and validation in the short-term at the expense of what is possible in the long-term. These feelings are particularly acute for both new and seasoned consulting and coaching business owners which in comparison to other business owners, growing to the next level is personal because your business is based on you.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 7, 2020

Leadership skills are an essential part of the consultant’s toolkit. More than just managing people, leadership is about communicating effectively in order to motivate people to achieve the desired outcome. Leadership is central to organizational performance, or as McKinsey & Company puts it: “Telling CEOs these days, that leadership drives performance is a bit like saying that oxygen is necessary to breathe.

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The Source

MARCH 9, 2020

Today’s clients are faced with a dizzying variety of options when it comes to buying professional services. While the industry is still dominated by a handful of big firms, they are no longer the default option they once were. This is the first in a series of blogs that explores some of the newer businesses and platforms seeking to turn the industry on its head—and whether your firm needs to worry about the new competition.?.

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Henry DeVries

MARCH 12, 2020

Here’s a truism about referrals: if you don’t ask, you don’t get.

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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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David A Fields

MARCH 10, 2020

Note: At the end of this article, you’ll be requested to join an experiment. If you’re willing to join, simply post, “Yes.” In the comments section below the article. Have you ever finished a day or a week and thought to yourself, “Holy cow, I can’t believe how insanely productive that time was”? You busted … Continued. The post The Great, One-Day Consulting Experiment appeared first on David A.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 7, 2020

Networking can be a frightening process but a necessary one since it gives you a chance to meet new people who are the biggest asset you can have in life. Through successful networking one gains a multitude of benefits such as strengthened business connections, introduction to fresh ideas, access to jobs opportunities, more confidence and appeal to different perspective on topics.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 9, 2020

Here’s our second monthly interview with a leading-edge business professional where I speak with someone smarter and wiser than me to figure out what being in business is all about. . This time I interview Paul Zelizer on expressing and living your values as a business owner. I first met Paul when he was managing the Wisdompreneurs Facebook group about 4 years ago.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 11, 2020

By digging into the current eLearning trends, you can better understand what the future of workplace training looks like and how to implement emerging solutions that generate positive results. With that in mind, here are seven learner-centric eLearning trends that need to be on your radar. The post 7 eLearning Trends That Are Learner Centric appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 12, 2020

On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast , we're joined Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts LLC and author of Never Go With Your Gut : How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 12, 2020

Background: By day, I write and teach my students on CaseInterview.com about how to have a successful career. By night, I volunteer with my county as an emergency worker, search & rescue team member, and emergency medical responder. Much of my training is in mass casualty incidents. Under normal circumstances, medical care in the United States is based on the principle of “do what’s best for the patient.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

If you're like many of the teams I meet, you've sort of got a handle on things. You can release. Your product mostly works. And, then Something Happens. And, your team has trouble recovering. That's brittleness in the system. You can build resilience as a team. In this post, I'll summarize how your team can build resilience. Start by Working as a Team.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 10, 2020

With great coaching you can become a great leader. Unfortunately, coaching is a lost skill. If you walk the halls of the corporate world, you won’t hear or see much of it going on for two reasons. Managers seem too doing reports or analysis. Managers are in too many meetings. When I talk to managers about coaching, the #1 thing they tell me is I don’t have time or they look at me like I am an alien.

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Consultants' Consultant

MARCH 12, 2020

Consultants Consultant: Everyone wants to know how much to charge for their consulting services. How much. The post How much to charge for consulting appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2020

Stop the multitasking already!

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On the Brink Podcast

MARCH 12, 2020

Hear about the long-awaited healing power of telling your story. I met Ivy Gordon through my work as a speaker with Vistage International. But today’s podcast with her is less about her acumen as a business innovator or coach. Rather, she is on a mission to enable women to tell their stories about rape and abuse through her website, Unspoken Story. While she is a successful innovator and business leader, what she talks about here is the need to provide a voice for women who have been raped or as

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

CASE STUDY. Revenue increased by 34 times. Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. During the engagement, the organization increased revenue by 34 times. After a decade of growing organic herbs and vegetables and raising farm animals, a family-run New England farm decided to pivot and produce high-end functi

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 13, 2020

The Association for Strategic Planning will be hosting their annual conference in beautiful Whistler, British Columbia for 2020. Over the course of May 13th through 15th, including one pre-conference day and two full conference days, strategic planning executives, business owners, consultants and thought leaders will be coming together to share what they've learned.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2020

Identify your key constituents and tailor your message appropriately.

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On the Brink Podcast

MARCH 9, 2020

Learn how to perform at your peak without making yourself sick! Marcey Rader changed her life and wants to help you do the same. During her 16 years in business, she always positioned herself as the go-to person to help staff become more efficient and productive. She ran 12 marathons, over 30 triathlons, and several endurance races. Always pushing, pushing, and pushing some more.

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Kai Davis

MARCH 12, 2020

Hi, I spent the afternoon doing some last COVID prep, supply shopping, and self-care, so what was today’s newsletter will arrive in your inbox tomorrow. In the meantime, here are five resources I recommend you investigate to prepare for the coming months with COVID. Most of all, stay safe, stay calm, and remember to breathe, my friend. We will survive this.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 12, 2020

On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast , we're joined Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts LLC and author of Never Go With Your Gut : How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.

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Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2020

Four lessons from the military on managing stress.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 12, 2020

I received the following letter today from a client and it spoke to me. It spoke to me because of how pure, true and relatable this message is. I’ve chosen to share it with you because I want you to know that the fear you are likely experiencing amidst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is normal and it’s OK. Everyone—and I mean everyone from world leaders, to business leaders, to those employed by those businesses, to consumers and families at home—everyone is experiencing some elements of fear

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Chad Barr

MARCH 11, 2020

As it turns out, Ohio, Cuyahoga county in particular, now has its first three cases of Covid-19. All the hand washing, and sleeve sneezing could not have prevented the inevitable from occurring right here. As fate would have it, our daughter and son in law have been notified that they, like in the hit show, Hamilton, were in the room where it happened.

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Management and IT Consulting

MARCH 11, 2020

You know your business better than anybody. You know its people, its clients, its skills and achievements, and its hard-won victories and the things you’d do differently next time around. It is important to celebrate your wins, but you know it is just as important to the success of your company to look more closely at why you won, and how. Or why you might have lost a deal or how things may have turned sour on that one project.

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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