Effective Managers
APRIL 3, 2025
One of the most common assumptions in organizations is this: the best performer on a team is the best candidate to lead it. It seems logical. After all, high performers are dependable, they meet or exceed expectations, and they understand the work deeply. So when a management position opens up, many leaders instinctively turn to their top technical person.
David A Fields
APRIL 15, 2025
There are a few things you know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, about the process of generating revenue for your consulting firm: Are there times or situations that are particularly ripe for building relationships, for avoiding skepticism and for sending chocolate? Yes there are. They can be neatly wrapped up in the pithy saying … Continued The post A Relationship Building Opportunity Your Consulting Firm Shouldn’t Miss appeared first on David A.
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Clarity Consultants
APRIL 18, 2025
Soft skills separate a competent employee from a great one. Communicating, managing conflict, and adapting under pressure isn’t optional; it’s essential. Yet many organizations still struggle to develop these skills at scale, especially in remote or hybrid environments. Here is where soft skills training becomes important. Unlike hard skills, soft skills such as active listening, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking can’t be mastered through static content alone.
Consulting Success
APRIL 14, 2025
[podcast_headshot url=”[link] What are the steps involved in transitioning from a successful corporate executive role – having helped scale a startup to IPO – to launching your own thriving consulting firm? Neel Singh, co-founder of the commercialization firm Tropoly, did just that. A long-time listener of the Consulting Success podcast since his executive days, Neel.
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 25, 2025
Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy , only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world. In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all.
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Effective Managers
APRIL 11, 2025
A recent Forbes article reports a sobering reality: employee engagement in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level in a decade, with only 31% of employees feeling engaged in their work. Gallups data paints a clear picture of a workforce that is increasingly checked out, and its easy to point fingersat the return-to-office mandates, at younger generations, or at economic uncertainty.
David A Fields
APRIL 1, 2025
Your consulting firm takes bold actions to win clients and generate value. Today, though, my question is whether focusing on small, mundane acts could accomplish more for your consulting firm. Most people harbor an outsized obsession with the big play… … the highlight reel shot that wins the game, the all-in bet that hits the … Continued The post A Tiny Action with Outsized Impact on Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.
Clarity Consultants
APRIL 16, 2025
Many companies invest heavily in hiring and training, yet struggle with high employee turnover and slow productivity. Traditional onboarding methods often rely on outdated classroom training and static materials that fail to engage or equip new hires effectively. As a result, employees feel disconnected, leading to frustration and disengagement. Now is the time to transform corporate onboarding with custom eLearning solutions.
Consulting Success
APRIL 21, 2025
The world is always changing, and big global events like trade wars, political conflicts, or new government rules can shake up your consulting business. Clients may cut budgets, laws may shift, and industries may struggle. If youre not prepared, you could lose income and face major setbacks. Thats why the most important asset you could.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 25, 2025
In my career, I’ve often seen technical expertise what we call hard skills acclaimed as the cornerstone of professional success. While this is true to a degree, Ive learned that its not enough. The ability to navigate complex challenges, influence stakeholders, and inspire teams requires something more: soft skills. Skills like effective communication, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and resilience are often the deciding factor in whether someone thrives or stalls in their career.
Harvard Business
APRIL 21, 2025
By reverse engineering your team’s workflow, you can customize generic AI tools to fit your processes.
LSA Global
APRIL 21, 2025
Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: Setting the Stage for Long-Term Success We know from sales leadership simulation assessment data that the pressure on new sales hires to ramp quickly and deliver measurable impact is higher than ever. Yet too often, organizations f ocus too narrowly on product training and neglect the foundational skills for new sales hires to be set up for success.
David A Fields
APRIL 22, 2025
Sit back and imagine your consulting firm as pure, rich, creamy scoops of ice cream. Prospects and consulting opportunities are the hot fudge that pours onto your icy practice in a steady, glossy stream of chocolatey richness. When you put it that way, its hard not to like consulting, right? Except, that you need to … Continued The post 5 Steps to Effective, Consulting Firm Marketing appeared first on David A.
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Clarity Consultants
APRIL 9, 2025
At Clarity Consultants, we know that seeing is believing, especially when it comes to effective learning and development solutions. That’s why we’re excited to share our new sample videodesigned to give you a firsthand glimpse of how we craft engaging and impactful digital learning experiences. Experience eLearning Excellence Our sample video demonstrates the high-quality, interactive, and learner-focused approach that defines our eLearning services.
Consulting Success
APRIL 17, 2025
Magnetic messaging is a short statement that explains who you work with and the value you can create for them. At Consulting Success, we teach our Magnetic Messaging formula: I help [WHO] to [solve WHAT problem] so they can [see WHAT results]. My [WHY choose me]… As a consulting business owner, your magnetic message (also.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 11, 2025
In todays fast-paced business environment, successful product development demands more than just great ideas and cutting-edge technology. It requires collaboration, agility, and a deep understanding of the customer. Cross-functional teams have emerged as a powerful model for fostering innovation and efficiency in product development, allowing companies to break down silos, improve communication, and leverage diverse expertise to create better products, faster.
Harvard Business
APRIL 22, 2025
How to navigate this regression—and prepare for a resurgence down the line.
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Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.
LSA Global
APRIL 10, 2025
How to Reinforce Organizational Change: Turning Intent into Impact When organizations undergo change, the initial rollout is only half the battle. Successful shifts in strategies, structures, processes, technologies, or people lie in the ability to reinforce organizational change: embedding the change so it becomes part of the organizations ways of working and thinking.
David A Fields
APRIL 8, 2025
Imagine your consulting firm as a palace. Ideally, frequent storms of consulting opportunities shower your spires and domes, coursing down to sustain the peasants consultants in your employ and nourish your garden of profit. Or, if your consulting firm is not a palace, then perhaps its a house. Or a tent. Or trullo? However you imagine your … Continued The post The Underlying Condition Necessary to Create More Rain at Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.
Clarity Consultants
APRIL 3, 2025
CAMPBELL, CA – March 27, 2025 Training Industry today announced that Clarity Consultants was named to the 2025 Training Industry Watch List for the Company Custom Content Development sector of the corporate learning and development (L&D) market. This recognition emphasizes our ongoing dedication to innovation, quality, and impact within the corporate learning and development (L&D) industry.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
APRIL 22, 2025
Your organization was founded on and has worked to maintain a culture of mutual support and respect. These ideals are even memorialized in your organizations values. However, instead of an organization with seamless and respectful communications, supportive cross-team collaborations, and solid performance, youve got departmental silos, inter and intra-team conflicts, and performance thats anything but […] The post Competence Bias is Killing Your Organization appeared first on Weber Busines
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.
Tom Spencer
APRIL 18, 2025
In todays fast-paced digital world, businesses must be agile, innovative, and customer-centric. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through data-driven product development. By leveraging insights gained from data analytics, companies can make smarter decisions, create products that better meet customer needs, and ultimately stay ahead of the competition.
Harvard Business
APRIL 18, 2025
Six ways to navigate the relationship.
LSA Global
APRIL 7, 2025
What Should a Leader Do When People Want One Person Off the Team? When the majority of team members want one person off the team, its a serious red flag both for team dynamics and leadership. This kind of situation can be nuanced and complex; it demands thoughtful, strategic handling. Here’s How to Approach It When People Want One Person Off the Team : Don’t Rush to Judgment While you may feel the need to act immediately, we know from leadership simulation assessment data that the b
Halo Psych
APRIL 7, 2025
Youve recently taken on another team. Its been a couple of months, and youve spotted some issues namely that there are a few people in the team who are either underperforming, or who have a questionable attitude. Here are some of the things youve experienced which is ringing alarm bells: Undermining you on decisions Ignoring your requests Passive-aggressive behaviour Argumentative behaviour, including in front of other people If this resonates with you, then just know youre not alone.
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Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c
Chad Barr
APRIL 23, 2025
Here’s one of those moments where technology doesn’t just assist—it accelerates your brilliance. Today, I uncovered another mind-expanding capability of ChatGPT. I asked it to help generate high-impact content ideas across several key insight categories that align with the emotional drivers and behavioral patterns of my ideal clients.
Kraft Kennedy
APRIL 23, 2025
Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2016 and Office 2019 will reach the end of extended support on October 14, 2025. This means that after this date, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, bug fixes, or technical support for these versions of Office. What Does This Mean for Office 2016 and Office 2019 Users? While Office 2016 and 2019 applications will continue to function, using unsupported software poses significant risks , including: Security vulnerabilities : Without security upd
Tom Spencer
APRIL 18, 2025
One of the biggest mistakes project managers and founders make is chasing every feature customers suggest. Customer understanding is key to good product design. We often rush out to gather feedback, returning with endless lists of “must-have” features. However, these features arent always what customers need theyre just what they think they want.
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