David A Fields
MARCH 17, 2020
You’re swimming in a vast sea of stressful news and, given today’s reality, you’re well within your rights to feel anxious, nervous and uncertain about how your consulting firm should proceed. Clients are shutting down their operations; workshops and meetings are being called off; in fact, the entire economy appears to be headed for an … Continued.
Successful Independent Consulting
AUGUST 31, 2020
Photo by Euan Cameron on Unsplash. As independent consultants, we’ve all worked remotely to some extent but now we are working virtually 100%. And likely, this isn’t temporary. Many companies are already saying they won’t require every employee to return to the workplace this calendar year. Some are considering shifting permanently to “work from anywhere”.
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Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Do you groan when you think of having another virtual meeting? Do you feel burn-out sitting in front of your camera all day? What if virtual meetings didn’t leave you with “Zoom fatigue” — but instead, you left your meetings feeling energized and excited? In a recent mastermind event with a select group of our. How To Run The Perfect Virtual Meeting With Your Clients is a post from: Consulting Success.
Consulting Matters
DECEMBER 23, 2020
If you struggle with determining how to set a price for your consulting services, don’t worry you are not alone. It’s a real challenge for those of us who get paid for our knowledge and insight to come up with the EXACT RIGHT AMOUNT TO CHARGE that both honors our expertise and is fair and reasonable to our clients. To help you master the art and science of pricing consulting services, let me share with you 5 Guiding Principles : Pricing is not a separate activity you to do earn money
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Markovitz Consulting
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.” Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%.
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The Source
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Our real-time forecast for the global consulting industry currently predicts that by the end of 2020, the market will have contracted by around 13% compared to 2019. However, that high-level picture can only tell us so much. Different countries have, of course, been affected by the pandemic in different ways; and international media coverage tends to focus disproportionately on the COVID response of large, developed economies.
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Do you work on your entrepreneurial mindset? Are you taking care of your mental game just as much as your physical health & well-being? At Consulting Success®, we believe that your mindset plays a major role in how well you do in business. But we wanted to see if the stats backed it up. This. Entrepreneurial Mindset Study 2020: The Mindset of Successful Consultants is a post from: Consulting Success.
Management Consulted
AUGUST 2, 2020
A question we frequently get from readers is, “Where should I start if I have no experience with case studies or case interviews?” It’s a great question, and we’re all too happy to provide a list of recommendations. If you’ve… Read Article. The post No Case Interview Experience? Start Here appeared first on Management Consulted.
Tsavo Neal
JULY 14, 2020
Personal websites. Everyone should have one. . Intuitively, I believe this is true. But why? My personal website, the website you’re reading now, has been everything to me. My career, my business, my life’s work — all wrapped up into one neat, 2-dimensional digital package. But what about others? Am I just a lone weirdo, obsessed with “cloning” my self through my website?
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Brimstone Consulting
AUGUST 13, 2020
How to engage and support your remote team for the long-haul. In February, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. Six months later, many organizations have announced that their employees will never have to return to the office , while others have pushed the return-to-office date to June 2021. . Throughout the pandemic, employee engagement has been on a roller coaster ride.
The Fearless Marketer
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Why I’m writing my newsletter as poetry, I have no idea. ( See last week’s here ) But this idea popped into my head when I woke up this morning and I went with it! It points to something that’s both obvious and easy to miss. My clients often work with me because. They feel marketing is a struggle. And they want to learn how to make it easier.
Consulting Matters
DECEMBER 30, 2020
We're coming up on the end of the year and it's time to review what worked and didn't so we can come up with plans for 2021, right? Wrong! If 2020 has taught us anything, we don't always have control over all the things we put into typical annual plans, complete with SMART goals and actionable strategies. That type of planning is OUT. What is IN is cultivating smart habits that keep you in tune with your market and allow you to respond to them with ease and confidence.
David A Fields
JANUARY 28, 2020
Where did Molly go wrong? Read the following, true story of Molly Milkcakes and see if you can spot her mistake. Molly, a consultant with Local Universal Consulting (a.k.a. LUC), was at a hot prospect’s office trying to close a project. She eloquently outlined the benefits of LUC’s offering and, while the decision makers nodded … Continued. The post How to Avoid Many Objections that Trip Up Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.
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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
JULY 28, 2020
Shifting to a remote work environment permanently for the foreseeable future has become a reality for many organizations. The rapid shift to remote work occurred because of the pandemic. It was a necessary response to a crisis situation that occurred quickly and without much warning. Because of that, we and our team members quickly found ways to do our jobs from our dining room tables with kids, dogs, and doorbells in the mix.
Clarity Consultants
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Many people assume that eLearning is automatically a bit impersonal. When classes are taught through online forums and video conferencing, there’s a kind of distance between the instructors and students, particularly a physical one. However, eLearning doesn’t inherently lack the human elements many students need. In fact, it can actually foster strong connections and, ultimately, be quite intimate, sometimes achieving.
Markovitz Consulting
APRIL 7, 2020
I really didn’t want to read this book. Yet another deathly dry, turgid, tedious book about lean is not what I need right now. My bookshelves are filled with lean books that provide all the enlightenment of a one-watt bulb. So Steady Work sat on my shelf for a few weeks while I looked for pretty much anything else to do—shopping for toilet paper, learning to make sourdough starter, watching Zoom videos on proper handwashing.
Successful Independent Consulting
MARCH 31, 2020
We’re in an unprecedented situation because of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and the economic fallout has been drastic for many business sectors, such as travel and restaurants. For us as consultants, the effects are likely to be more gradual but our income will likely be affected. This article explains your options for cash-flow relief, whether you need it immediately or in the near future, and how to get it.
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Consulting Success
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This is the ultimate guide on how to start a consulting business in 2021. By the end of this guide, you’ll know how to turn your skills and expertise into a profitable and successful consulting business. Let’s dive right in. Contents Step 1: Choose Your Consulting Business Model Step 2: Get Clear On Your Ideal. How To Start A Consulting Business In 2021 (6 Steps) is a post from: Consulting Success.
Management Consulted
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Behavioral interviews are a key component to the case interview. Yet, if you’re just starting your interview prep journey, you might be even asking, “What are behavioral interviews?” Or, “How do you pass a behavioral interview?” Or maybe still, you’re… Read Article. The post What are Behavioral Interviews? appeared first on Management Consulted.
Steve Shu Consulting
JULY 16, 2020
This is a repost from an answer I wrote a couple of years ago on Quora. I usually fail miserably at explaining this for some reason. Probably the most common definition out there is that management consultants are like doctors for companies (instead of doctors for people). This analogy probably works for most cases. However, in the spirit of consulting analogies used by guru David Maister, there are probably sub-analogies.
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes. It’s been a while since we were distanced from the office, and it’s not looking to end anytime soon. Many tech companies such as Microsoft have announced that they plan to let employees work remote permanently. Working from home is the new normal. As much as people are tolerant of interruptions from a weak internet connection, kids screaming, or dogs barking in the background, it’s time for us to adapt and change.
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Consulting Matters
JANUARY 30, 2020
One of the most agonizing (and least talked about) experiences that keeps really smart people from building the consulting and coaching businesses of their dreams is the fear of not having what it takes. The fear might be not having what it takes to do the marketing and attract clients or even if they landed clients they wouldn't have the goods to back up whatever promises they made in their marketing.
David A Fields
JANUARY 7, 2020
You know a rain barrel full of reasons why your consulting firm is better than other firms that do what you do. Among the reasons, of course, is you. Your experience and ideas and unique perspective. Hence, when Bethany Buttonwerk asked you why her company should work with your consulting firm instead of others she’s … Continued. The post A Superior Response to “What Makes Your Consulting Firm Better?
David A Fields
AUGUST 5, 2020
You deserve congratulations for your accomplishments so far. Your consulting firm, whether big or small, thriving or struggling, is a manifestation of your intention and commitment to create value for others. Could you achieve more? Yes. Much, much more? Definitely. Common wisdom and common sense point you toward a simple maxim: build on your success. … Continued.
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David A Fields
DECEMBER 15, 2020
You and your consulting firm are pretty spiffy. But does your firm employ the one, best consulting approach? Let’s find out. You savor the evidence that your consulting firm produces excellent work. Glowing testimonials and multiple, word-of-mouth referrals provide ample evidence that your consulting firm consistently pleases your clients. Yet, other consulting firms proceed quite … Continued.
David A Fields
JULY 28, 2020
You’ve told your consulting clients the keys to success, and you’ve reminded them. More than once. By the way, you’ve also made these core principles clear in your articles and webinars. We’re talking about the fundamentals you communicate to virtually every one of your consulting firm’s clients. “Blame the process before you blame an employee.” … Continued.
David A Fields
APRIL 14, 2020
Many of your consulting firm’s prospects are caught in the eddies of crisis and battling to stay afloat. While they appreciate your relationship-building calls, unfortunately, they’re too preoccupied to fully engage in deep conversations with you. On the other hand, you know who’s in the same boat as your consulting firm and casting about for … Continued.
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