David A Fields

MAY 24, 2022

After your consulting firm wins a project, you deliver the project to your client. However, there’s a different type of delivery that dramatically affects your success in business development. The post A Very Quick Process to Improve Your Consulting Firm’s BD by 300% appeared first on David A. Fields Consulting Group.

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David A Fields

JULY 14, 2020

Your consulting firm has adjusted to the lack of in-person meetings, conferences, meals, and walk-the-halls opportunities. Since you can’t attract or court Belinda Buyalot in person, you’ve moved your consulting firm’s visibility-building, marketing, and business development efforts online. So has everyone else.

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David A Fields

AUGUST 3, 2021

Your hard work on business development and some good luck resulted in big opportunities for your seed optimization consulting firm: potential engagements with Worldwide Walnuts, Paramus Pecan Co, and NoNutz.com all at the same time. Fields Consulting Group. You may have a “Step 0” problem. If you’ve … Continued.

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Is there a way to make your consulting firm’s business development efforts easier, stable and more effective? Visibility-building undergirds your consulting firm’s endeavors to attract clients. The post 10 Triggers that Set Off Growth Explosions at Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A. Yeparoonie.

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Your consulting firm has experienced boom times. You may even be navigating a high tide of consulting projects now thanks to your excellent product-market fit, your diligent business development efforts or the kind winds of fate. The post Is Your Consulting Firm Stretched Thin?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2023

These are just two examples of how technology is driving the evolution of business. In this article, the focus is placed on businesses that operate online. In this growing sector of commerce, there have been some key developments in recent times.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

As such none of those business owners and leaders have the resources they need to sustain their enterprises. According to the same study , expenditures on leadership development programs have decreased by about 10%. Leadership development is the most ignored aspect for several reasons. They have to be developed.

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Center for Creative Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Nearly every leadership development consulting firm experiences the same challenge: Managing client demands while expanding their offerings and growing their book of business. How do the best leadership consultancies balance these responsibilities? Yet these are necessary to grow your leadership consulting business.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 19, 2016

Guest post from Bill Bartlett : What is your position on professional development? I have been coaching and training business executives for over 20 years and I find the high performers demonstrate a common need to continuously raise the learning bar to stay ahead of the competition. Simply developing them, however, is not enough.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 4, 2017

Consultants tend to sell (and believe in) rigorous processes. Uh oh, what does that mean for us independent consultants? Especially when it comes to business development, should we be devoted to the process or the results? However, successful entrepreneurs are known to eschew process and doggedly chase results.

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David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Some consultants love to travel for their consulting projects. Besides, when I’m on the road, there’s less time for marketing and business development, and I can’t play old-man hockey at the local rink. But how do you build a booming, lucrative consulting practice while staying cozily ensconced in your home office?

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David A Fields

MARCH 9, 2016

That movie profoundly changed how I walk in the world and how I approach consulting business development. It allowed me to overcome personal demons and thrive as a consultant. Let me explain: Consulting is a hands-free profession. Perhaps it can do that for you too.

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David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The first step in becoming a successful, independent consultant may surprise you. Your most valuable consulting asset is actually… (drumroll please)… a tie between “Your proven, business development approach” and “Your client base.” Before I tell you what it is, let’s start with a couple of quizzes.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Let’s talk about why that may be happening and an easy fix that will create more juice in your business development efforts. Many of your conversations with outstanding prospects don’t lead to high-potential opportunities.

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David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

There are two parts of the Consultant Wealth picture: your Revenue Truth and your Leverage Truth. Because, well, selling consulting projects is groovy and I live for umami. Consultants tied up in an engagement often neglect their business development duties. I tend to write about the revenue side.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2020

With the growth of population and the advent of cutting-edge technology to the industrial world, business as a whole is growing massively and rapidly. As a result, the need for skilled workers in management and leadership has developed significantly over the ages and continues to grow even further. Management consultant.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership announces a penalty in Individual Development Plans are Worthless….if Anne Perchel of Germane Consulting shows us the magnificence of our minds in Book Review: What Goes On Inside Our Heads. article was featured in the October Leadership Development Carnival. if No Action is Taken. is hiring.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Jill is an African American woman with ten years of experience in consulting. She has demonstrated ability to target in on very valid and significant business development opportunities. She has demonstrated ability to target in on very valid and significant business development opportunities.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

As a business coach and people developer, I address the needs of my clients during an initial in-depth discussion. Many years of working as a management consultant, coach and mentor tell me the exact opposite is often the case. I was recommended to them by a colleague of theirs who knows and trusts how I work. The acronym means.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2021

You can see that entrepreneurs like Haval Dosky , founder of Repeat Consultants, provide support but also understands it from the inside. If you have a relationship with a potential business partner, you have to consider how the relationship benefits both of you. Common ground, but also perspective, will help to cement the bonds.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Combining business acumen and a unique set of leadership skills, Liz works to reimagine and redefine how people thrive, learn and work while driving remarkable outcomes for our clients. N2Growth is a global leadership development firm with more than 30 locations across The Americas, Europe, APAC & MENA.

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David A Fields

APRIL 6, 2015

A consultant asked me this question: Most of your business development recommendations seem very oriented toward Western cultures. How should I adapt my business development efforts to these other markets? What would your advice be to this consultant? I operate in other parts of the world, including Asia.

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David A Fields

JULY 20, 2016

Fortunately, as a consultant, your work world does revolve around a skill you’ve already mastered. Better yet, when you apply that skill to business development you’ll drum up plenty of new clients. As a consultant, what are you best at? Sleeping, for instance, or eating, or laughing at videos of giggling babies.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

When I was CEO of Hewitt Associates, an HR consulting firm (now Aon Hewitt), we were a partnership. Our business developers endorsed highly personable candidates who were dynamic, persuasive presenters. This tendency is problematic if you are a manager.

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David A Fields

JULY 1, 2014

There’s a choice consultants make every day, and I am convinced that consultants who choose correctly will experience huge gains in their productivity and business-development efforts. Problem #1 facing many consultants: Prospects aren’t responding to your inquiries. Let’s go old school. And you’d stop reading.

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David A Fields

JULY 1, 2014

There’s a choice consultants make every day, and I am convinced that consultants who choose correctly will experience huge gains in their productivity and business-development efforts. Problem #1 facing many consultants: Prospects aren’t responding to your inquiries. Let’s go old school. And you’d stop reading.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 2, 2021

What’s more, the often complex solutions that were developed made it tricky to rapidly adapt to the changing circumstances wrought by the pandemic, thus making the kind of plug-and-play adaptions so sought after difficult to achieve. This was a problem when customers hit challenging times and scaled back activity significantly.

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David A Fields

JULY 1, 2014

There’s a choice consultants make every day, and I am convinced that consultants who choose correctly will experience huge gains in their productivity and business-development efforts. Problem #1 facing many consultants: Prospects aren’t responding to your inquiries. Let’s go old school. And you’d stop reading.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 30, 2012

What may be surprising—like Duke losing to Lehigh—is that those managers promoted because of their technical expertise were more likely to have development needs than all other promotion reasons in 6 of the 9 Manager Ready competencies (see table). Bradford Thomas, is a product manager with Development Dimensions International (DDI).

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2014

Life is about learning, growing, and constantly developing. Lolly Daskal is the president and founder of Lead From Within a coaching and consultant firm that manages large scale corporate coaching and custom made leadership programs. Stop defining our moments by the behaviors of the past. Connect with Lolly Daskal. © 2013 Lolly Daskal.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2012

As small business owners we routinely perform tasks that larger companies would associate with assistants and receptionists. I answer phones, research client questions as well as conduct meetings and business development. As owners we are frequently so busy keeping the doors open, we really don’t know how the company operates.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 30, 2021

It can also help to consult with other business leaders to learn from their successes with tech. There is a lot of work that goes into marketing , and it’s essential to get it right to give your business the highest chance of success. Stay Ahead Of Industry Developments. Use Marketing Tools. Keep Your Data Secure.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

N2Growth works with Corporate Boards, CEOs and senior management from many industries to co-create strategies for growth, develop the set of Next Practices that enable digital transformation and provide the framework for businesses to augment their brand identity, as well as create compelling competitive advantages.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

The following article — Time is Money: The 3 Different Approaches to Strategic Planning — was written by Gabriel Najera — Founder, Najera Consulting Group. One of the biggest challenges organizations face is making the commitment to develop a well thought out strategic plan. Najera Consulting. Peter Green.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2019

I have (many times), and if you are an active business developer, then you have heard this, too – and will continue to hear it probably more times than you would ever want. A friend recently asked me how my approach to developing business can help with the “Thanks, but no thanks!” Ever heard that before?

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 14, 2015

Why is it that, in the age of expensive management consultants and ubiquitous leadership training courses , a whopping 70% of employees continue to self-report as disengaged and unhappy? Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Here is what one customer had to say about Develop Leadership Skills ebook at $.99

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bersin’s research, a cornerstone in his “ Definitive Guide to Leadership ,” reveals a significant gap in leadership development, emphasizing the imperative for companies to invest in cultivating effective leaders. The HR Digest: Your Definitive Guide to Leadership Development was the result of extensive research.

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