Consulting Matters

JANUARY 30, 2020

This fear is the primary culprit behind procrastination on getting a business launched, resistance to creating a world-class website and being strategic about marketing and sales. You don't have the fear because you aren't seasoned, talented with a long track record of success. And this fear is sneaky. hiding behind a company brand.)

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Gallup focused on six outcomes: sales, profit, customer engagement, turnover, employee engagement, and safety. 10%-19% increase in sales. Managers should conduct performance reviews that encourage and make use of employees’ talents and offer recognition and development aligned with their strengths.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2024

If you’re a founder — or aspire to be one — this episode is for you.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JULY 16, 2019

My colleague Nancy says that someone in an area like talent management may not be specialized enough to get many project requests; they’d do better if they specialized in a subset of talent management like sales compensation or talent management software. How can I sign up to become a Council Member?

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The post Create a Better Work Environment – Redeploy Your Talent appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC. My clients weren’t happy. Their team members weren’t happy. Their customers weren’t happy. No matter what […].

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Five years ago, compensation (i.e.,

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LSA Global

JANUARY 29, 2025

Net Promoter Score This worldwide industrial technologies company wanted to design and deliver a Customized Sales Training program to help their sales reps who were facing increased competition, new pricing models, changing client demands, delayed sales cycles, and increased pressure to find and grow new accounts.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

L&D initiatives are essential for attracting and retaining top talent. By prioritizing L&D, companies can ensure they have the right talent to drive long-term success. Are you aiming to increase sales, improve customer satisfaction, or boost employee retention? Start by clearly defining your business goals.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JUNE 15, 2011

Business Development and Management Skills – Consulting services sales and marketing are unique topics, and turning to folks like Michael McLaughlin at [link] , Ford Harding [link] , and Ian Brodie [link] are some of the best investments that one can make. So there you have it.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 24, 2024

This not only boosts employee capabilities but also aids in talent retention. For example, a retail giant might use AI for inventory management and predictive analytics in customer purchasing behavior, leading to reduced operational costs and improved sales.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 22, 2021

Often, this means shifting away from harder sales approaches and spending extra time listening to customers and identifying their genuine needs, something that your teams may need to learn about to do effectively. It allows them to feel secure and cared for by those they choose to do business with, something that can be incredibly reassuring.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 12, 2019

I recently discovered a series of practical tips on Instagram, of all places, by following Johanna Voss , owner of a boutique talent agency for female influencers and keynote speakers. She asked the sales rep, “Would you give it to me for $150?” Johanna told me she used this technique when she needed a new mattress.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Success in a sales force requires having strong talent up and down the organization. A weak salesperson will weaken a sales territory, a bad sales manager will damage their team and dampen results in their region, and a poor sales leader will eventually ruin the entire sales force. Consider two examples.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 14, 2021

A company that prides itself in having one of the industry’s best training programs, our client aimed to convert sales training courses to eLearning modules that would help its salesforce kick-off 2020 with a bang. TOP TALENT CREATES CUSTOMIZED ELEARNING CONTENT FOR SALES ENABLEMENT. part of our client’s Sales Academy program?—?were

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Now I run a national talent agency for HR consultants as well as the Professional Independent Consultants of America, both organizations that help independent consultants be successful. One way to get over the psychological hurdle is to avoid calling it “sales”. I made the leap to independent consulting in 2004 and never looked back.

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LSA Global

MARCH 17, 2025

Top 8 Research-Backed Sales Management Skills to Master We know from sales management training that leading a sales can make or break sales performance. Sales success requires a thoughtful combination of strategic thinking , people skills, and analytical expertise to effectively lead, manage, and coach a sales team.

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2024

Other Features Resource management Scheduling Business intelligence Talent management Real-time reporting and analytics Team collaboration Project portfolio management 5. Other Features Project management Resource planning Reporting and dashboard Collaboration Sales and CRM Time tracking Invoicing Cost management 14.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce. Gap is joining a growing corps of large companies that are turning to an overlooked pool of entry-level talent: the 5.5 Sourcing eager talent is just part of the new equation. Across the U.S., Sourcing for Commitment. Screening In for Aptitude.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Most sales forces focus a good deal of their attention on the short term — on bringing in today’s sales or making this quarter’s numbers. It’s understandable: The sales team wants to be successful. But sales forces that are managed only to meet short-term needs can drift into mediocrity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2016

Sales leaders have a deep-seated belief in using stretch goals to challenge a sales force. Many successful companies have lived the virtuous cycle: Sales leaders set a stretch goal, the sales force surpasses it, and sales force morale and confidence gets a boost. Track historic goal achievement outcomes.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Dorie is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and talented professionals get their true talents noticed, appreciated, and recognized, in today’s noisy marketplace. At this time, your business may be over weighted with sales activity, but this effort is essential to later success. High-Pressure Sales Never Pays Off.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Yet, our organizational alignment research found that the alignment of strategy and talent accounts for 60% of the difference between high and low performing companies. To be effective, talent management strategies must be anchored by clear, believable, and implementable business objectives that company teams understand and commit to execute.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Alan Weiss

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The half-life of certain talents is about 4.5 And if it is, what kinds of talents will make it most productive? I’ve worked with organizations where the sales vice president tells me, “Our sales director isn’t very good and need to be replaced, but I’m better off with a body in that position than no one at all.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

When your true talents are understood, it’s far more likely you’ll be tapped for relevant and interesting assignments — and it helps you stand out in a field of competitors. Here are three strategies that can help ensure your talents are recognized. Network both inside and outside your organization.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Talent Developers: attract, assess, develop, and retain talent.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Research shows that managers see far more leadership potential in their employees when their companies adopt a growth mindset — the belief that talent should be developed in everyone, not viewed as a fixed, innate gift that some have and others don’t. But what are those organizations doing to nurture their talent?

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The impact of not leveraging your best talents towards meeting the needs you are most equipped to help are huge when it comes to long-term sustainable success: You take work that is not especially in your wheelhouse. You don’t do your best work; nor does it energize you. Who are they? What needs do they have? The Ultimate Best Practice.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

.” While there are many contributing factors, one of the most important is the sheer lack of analytic talent, up and down the organization chart. In turn, this lack of talent makes it harder for companies to leverage their data, to take full advantage of their data scientists, and to get in front of data quality issues.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Based on our work with member companies at the Marketing Science Institute, two competing forces explain this discrepancy—the data used in analytics and the analyst talent producing it. of marketing leaders reported that their companies have the right talent to leverage marketing analytics. and 2017 (Mean 3.7,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Three factors have made the difference: Strategic talent management. The main difference between K-Pop and the rest of the music industry is talent management. In the traditional business model, talent is discovered by scouts or through auditions. K-Pop companies source artistic talent all around the world.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 9, 2020

As long as you're skilled at sales and negotiations, you can easily land a single a client that could provide a good portion of your annual income. Choose the business model that suits your strengths, passions and motivates you to invest your time and talents towards making it a success. what a company deems important.).

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The impact of not leveraging your best talents towards meeting the needs you are most equipped to help are huge when it comes to long-term sustainable success: You take work that is not especially in your wheelhouse. You don’t do your best work; nor does it energize you. Who are they? What needs do they have? The Ultimate Best Practice.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

The presence of money fears can be good if they act as alerts to be strategic about investments and with marketing and sales. Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return. Money fears are totally normal and should be expected.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The home of independent business talent.” TopTal is a network of the world’s top 3% of software engineering, design, and finance talent — available on demand to help companies accelerate, adapt, and scale.” The marketplace for top-tier business talent. The company claims to have 30,000 users in 150 countries.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

Management teams and organizations that prioritize inclusion attract better talent and perform better. Hire for talent, not a résumé Inclusive management starts before employees even walk in the door. Dozens of studies have demonstrated that more-diverse teams make better decisions than less-diverse teams.

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