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Is It Time to Consider a Fixed Fee for Your Consulting Services?

Successful Independent Consulting

You know you’re going to have to interview each of the division heads and other functional leaders, but you can leverage the interview questions from the last assessment you did. Plus, you’ve developed a good system for interpreting interview data. You also have a survey you can adapt to get needed data from other stakeholders.

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Wrap Up Post from Issues Management Workshop at #CPRS2014

Melissa Agnes

Here are some interesting reads on the United Breaks Guitars crisis: Interview with Dave Carroll: How Businesses Can Protect Themselves From Social Media Crises. Interview with Taylor Guitars: The Power of Real-Time Communication. Thanks to all of you who attended and participated in my workshop. Learn more here.

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Consulting 101: Preparing for Case Interviews

Tom Spencer

Case interviews can seem like a daunting task. Thankfully, by taking tangible steps you can be well prepared for your case interviews. In my opinion, a productive place to begin is to watch videos about the case interview. From these videos you can get familiar with the format and process in which a case interview is done.

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How a Remote Australian Mine Became a Gender-Balanced Workplace

Harvard Business

The authors, whose research specializes in changing sexist and homophobic behaviors in traditionally male-dominated settings, were initially hired to deliver workshops on the subject at South Flank, but in their six weeks there, studied its workforce via observation and interviews.

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Case Interview Prep

Tom Spencer

Case questions form the cornerstone of the consulting interview, and reading this blog or reviewing the case prep resources listed below will not be sufficient preparation. Many experts recommend at least 30 mock case interviews with friends, classmates, contacts in the industry and anyone else who is willing to help. Ace Your Case!

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Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better

Harvard Business

For example, implementing a new interview process, without educating employees on its benefits, inhibits its adoption. We found that, months after attending the workshop, employees reported engaging in more of the research-backed strategies for mitigating bias highlighted in the workshop than they had prior to the workshop.

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The Business Plan Is Alive And Well But It May Not Be What You Think

Steve Shu Consulting

Business plans can often take the form of workshop sessions and Powerpoint documents as opposed to a traditional textual Word document. The business planning effort can be more organic than written and involve focus groups, customer prospect interviews, etc. Example situations are new business launches in larger companies (e.g.,