Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2020

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. succeeded in meeting the original planned resource expenditure.

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David A Fields

JUNE 14, 2022

The spectacular failure of CNN+ is hardly the largest debacle abetted by a consulting firm. If your consulting firm had been in McKinsey’s shoes, would you have taken the CNN+ project and built a plan that, in retrospect, appears absurdly unrealistic? The post Dubious Ideas, Foolish Clients and Your Consulting Firm.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 15, 2019

The lifeblood of your consulting firm, and the foundation on which 95% of advisory engagements are won. Since “working on relationships” is a bit vague, what should your consulting firm do to strengthen personal bonds? The post An Easy, 7-Step Relationship Plan for Consulting Firms appeared first on David A.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 13, 2021

There are consulting projects, there are advisory engagements, and there are chocolate covered almonds. Your consulting firm’s clients may consume all three, however, the rules for pricing are different in each case. Behind-the-scenes work—research, planning, creating deliverables, shelling nuts—is the world of consulting projects.

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David A Fields

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Heading into the new year, you probably have goals, aspirations, plans and tactics in mind for your consulting firm. The post An Easy Way to Ensure Your Consulting Firm’s 2023 is Amazing appeared first on David A. The post An Easy Way to Ensure Your Consulting Firm’s 2023 is Amazing appeared first on David A.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If you develop an annual plan for your consulting firm, there’s a decent chance you sit down with your senior team and/or advisors for a day or two to hammer out your objectives, strategies and tactics. (If If you don’t engage in any strategic planning for your consulting firm then, as the old saying goes, “When … Continued.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Then, I have a few who see this as a passing storm, which requires clear thinking and planning for when their company emerges from that storm. I make a living as a consultant, mentor, and business coach, but I am poor at crystal ball reading, as are most people. The post Are You Planning for When the Storm Passes?

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David A Fields

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

You may have a (reasonably) solid plan in place to win consulting business from two groups of decision makers: your current clients who could engage your consulting firm for more projects, and totally new clients who could hire your consulting firm for the first time.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

So, it makes sense that we as leaders would want to create a success plan for our people. A success plan is much more than an annual performance review. What Is a Success Plan? Why should they have to wait for their next performance review to have a dialogue with me about their dreams, their success plans, or their jobs?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Are you familiar with the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle? Read more… Author information Bill Fox Bill Fox is a plane-flying project management and performance improvement consultant. Read more… Author information Bill Fox Bill Fox is a plane-flying project management and performance improvement consultant.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2021

Hiring a financial modelling consultant provides you with access to their expertise, filling gaps in your own skill sets. The 5 Benefits of Hiring a Financial Modelling Consultant. Smaller businesses, particularly start-ups, usually outsource this service instead of hiring an in-house consultant. Constant Monitoring.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Instead, create a one-page strategy map.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2016

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. Strategic Planning 2.0

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Instead, create a one-page strategy map.

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Women on Business

MAY 4, 2012

Statistics show women are joining the growing independent consulting sector at a rapid pace. A new study from MBO Partners reports that 77% these women are satisfied and 74% plan on remaining in independent work. Women make up less than half (47%) of the traditional workforce, but they make up 53% (8.5

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David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

They’re showered with champagne, praise and confetti… which sticks to the champagne—that part wasn’t well planned out. The post Are You Making this Rookie Mistake at Your Consulting Firm? Far, far fewer of those phenoms are known for their extraordinary, enduring career. Because they make a rookie mistake. The same … Continued.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In this episode, Carson Tate, one of America’s top productivity consultants talks about why you don’t have to rely on your company or your boss for your professional fulfillment. Then we look at how to develop that personal professional development plan, to love and own the direction you’re heading. Your Dream Job. (00:43).

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2021

Failure To Consult a Legal Professional. Most first time investors exhibit unbridled enthusiasm and don’t take time to consult. If you don’t consult an experienced attorney such as Jacob A. Planning to set up a new business? This post explores common legal mistakes many new businesses make to help you steer your venture.

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David A Fields

JULY 11, 2017

Want to achieve the next big step up for your consulting firm? You’ve undoubtedly written goals, and I’ll bet you’ve crafted plans, too. But to generate a quantum leap in consulting revenue and profit, you need an Engineering Vision. Answer the seven questions in this article, and you’ll be poised for explosive growth.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit is a “best of” collection of blog posts from the award winning blog Great Leadership , written by Dan McCarthy, an experienced leadership development practitioner and author. I love this collection of some of Dan's best posts on Leadership Development and Succession Planning!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Here are 10 changes needed to enable a wholesale paradigm shift in strategic planning and execution methods that will significantly improve your results: 1.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 9, 2014

learned the hard way how to plan my career by not planning. There are some things you can do to fast-forward your own quest for the perfect career without planning it out in minute detail (which might cause you to miss the perfect opportunity). I began working post-college as a laboratory research biologist.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You learned about an 8-week alternative to the traditional, gather-everyone-in-a-room-for-two-days approach to annual planning for your consulting firm. (It Since publishing that piece, consulting firm leaders have lobbed in an array of queries: Is the process iterative? It was in this article.) Who should be involved?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Furthermore, by identifying gaps in skills, competencies, and areas of expertise, organizations can address these deficiencies through targeted leadership development programs and succession planning. Actionable insights are the key to unlocking the full potential of leadership team assessments.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Most consultants don’t graduate from business school with any real world business experience. I have a very simple rule that I’ve followed for years in evaluating whether or not to hire a consultant: If an advisor is not fluent in my business, they won’t be retained by me to represent my business…end of story.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 15, 2020

And while the complexity of uncertainty and the unknown, unknowables is increasing, your organization and leadership team will be pressured to makes sense of the challenges and develop some planning steps to make things better. solution-focused process for complexity and uncertainty planning.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In consulting, the size of your network matters. Whether you’re making rain for a $40k startup or a $40m boutique consulting firm, one of your challenges is increasing your pool of prospects—contacts who could become lucrative, long-term clients.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2014

This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : I’ve managed formal succession planning systems for a number of large companies and consulted with quite a few smaller companies. I network with others that do the same, and keep up with the latest succession planning current practices, trends, and challenges.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I picked this question because I just attended an event in Boston called “Secrets of Succession”, a moderated panel discussion with a CHRO, a succession planning consultant and executive coach, and a CEO and Board member. To them, succession planning and development was all about the discussion, decisions, and actions taken.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many of you may consider sales planning as something that is forced on you from headquarters as "Filling out forms to satisfy the home office".and In many organizations, typically what happens is this.every year you are asked for your sales plan for the coming year by a certain date. But is the sales planning job compete?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2020

Many companies hire consultants but how widespread is the practice? The consulting market across the world is valued at 262 billion dollars. Are you trying to figure out why companies hire an external consultant? Read on to learn how consulting professionals can help your business. Time to draft in an external consultant.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With the guidance of experienced consultants in leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions, boards can navigate these complex dynamics and build strong relationships that drive better results for the organization. Leveraging board evaluations can significantly enhance succession planning efforts.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

One option that you have is to hire a business growth consultant. Hiring a business growth consultant can help you see these results you’re searching for, however, you’re not sure if this is the right step for you. The best way to determine if hiring a consultant is right for you is to continue reading below.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I went back to my boss with a detailed business plan to set up a Quality Consulting unit as an independent business unit. That opportunity allowed me to travel across the globe, meet customers, understand their challenges, offer solutions, provide consulting support, sell services and contribute substantially to organization’s growth.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

First, you have to create a systematic development plan that helps you focus on every aspect of your job. Then, you can take action and put the plan in motion. In this article, you’ll learn how to create a step-by-step plan to develop your individual skills or to better the whole team. What Is A Development Plan?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided Four Tips to Manage Your Email. Angela Hummel of Angela Hummel Consulting writes Leading Average Performers. Ken Byler of Higher Ground Consulting Group contributed Scapegoating and Leadership. ” Find John on Twitter at @AwesomelySimple. The simple answer?

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