David A Fields

JUNE 4, 2019

Yep, you’re a cerebral, smarty-pants consultant, and you use your mega-intellect to set your clients on the path to success. The post What Your Consulting Firm’s Clients Really Want appeared first on David A.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 4, 2017

The other day, I came across an old contract when I worked at <confidential> from a famous consultancy called <confidential> in NYC. The contract was signed prior to my employment and after 2 months, I fired the consultancy based on their incompetence with the project. Guess what? I know what would happen.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 26, 2014

The other day, I came across a contract when I worked at <confidential> from a famous consultancy called <confidential> in NYC. The contract was signed prior to my employment and after 2 months, I fired the consultancy based on their incompetence with the project. Guess what? I know what would happen.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Bernd Geropp provided One-on-One meetings: Why to do them and what questions to ask. What do you actually talk about and how often should you do one-on-ones? The only other choice is to outsource your thinking, and hope you don’t get caught in a distortion field. Eileen McDargh contributed What Legacy do You Leave ?

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2023

ChMC Case Study: Akram Halim Senior Consultant, Associate ChMC at Arcadis Arcadis Consultant, Akram Halim, on how obtaining the Associate Chartered Award has helped advance his career. Arcadis Consultant, Akram Halim, recently achieved the Associate Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC) Award.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2023

ChMC Case Study: Paul Terrington Head of Consulting for the UK & EMEA at PWC UK Paul Terrington CBE on how Chartered allows senior leaders to demonstrate their commitment to the standards they set. And that is what PwC’s Head of Consulting Paul Terrington CBE has done with Chartered. Leaders lead.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

in today’s post I’m going to focus on what you want out of an investment partner post closing. But now that the beauty contest is over, and you have a very real, and often demanding investment partner kibitzing from the cheap seats, what post-closing value are they really adding?

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Women on Business

MARCH 9, 2013

I started my firm because I saw how little good advice businesses were getting from consultants that operated on a volume billing mentality. I genuinely wanted to help and while this Pollyanna attitude may have shot me in the foot on some instances, the end results is a really great reputation. Why did I start?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Ideally, with the right people, one firm could serve both roles. It’s possible, in my opinion, to work with two different firms, but coordination is essential to keep critical information from falling through the cracks. What are the characteristics of the “ideal” adviser? Your financial well-being is a big-picture scenario.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It’s the moment you realize that the dream job you worked hard to get has taken you away from doing what you love, or that a relationship you’ve invested years of your life in is shifting in a direction that’s different from what you want. K aren Martin, president of the global consulting firm TKMG, Inc. ,

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Relationship-driven leadership consulting firm SkyeTeam, based in Broomfield, Colorado doesn’t just tell its staff that working with the firm will be fun. It immediately breaks down barriers and connects people—clients and associates. The result: the client experienced a 17 percent drop in safety problems. “We

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Are you shooting yourself in the foot with your pricing strategy? How much is your time worth? What does your pricing say about your personal or corporate brand? Do you have a pricing strategy, or do you set your prices by some ethereal or arbitrary method? By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 14, 2022

Erika is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting and training firm that centers on leader readiness and the author of many books on strategy and leadership. “If If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Your village, your church, and your work all had predictable and stable rhythms and rituals.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. What will we measure?”

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. What will we measure?”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In fact your boss likely feels the same way about giving you your annual review. By understanding a few skills involving criticism, whether as a giver or receiver, it can become a significant asset towards your personal success as a leader or manager. As you probably appreciate, you are not alone.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2014

I love that part of my work, but when I get hired, without fail, the client always asks, “Can you really get them motivated? Can you really give them drive?”. Because I know the motivation they’re seeking really starts from within. To understand motivation we must know what drives us. They are as unique as we are.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Real talk is two-way communicating that moves past what’s obvious, superficial, and assumed to get at the core of authentic meaning and connection. Unless leaders use thoughtful engagement to probe and clarify, the best we can hope for is a best guess, which isn’t a very firm footing for effective leadership or success. Ronald Laing.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Today, I wanted to bring new voices to the civanonversation on what a healthy leader looks like. I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Excerpt from The Most Valuable Missing Ingredient in Your Fitness Routine.

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CO2

AUGUST 8, 2013

by Gary Cohen Today I met with a wonderfully interesting and experienced consultant, Tom Siders from L. According to Tom, clients want the three A’s: Availability. I don’t want to wait for a long time, but I’m leery about empty restaurants. As an Executive Coach, I cap out at 20 clients at any one time.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 14, 2016

Guest post by Karissa Thacker What is your current specific self-improvement project? As an executive coach, I am reminded every day that whether a project succeeds or fails comes down to my client’s willingness to experiment and try new things. But what do the intrinsic gold medals look like? Is it specific?

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 6, 2015

Mom, Dad, guess what I decided today? If you’re a sales pro, this is something you’ll want to recognize in your buyers. They move toward your offerings. Others want to avoid problems, so they move away. You then utilize your newly discovered verbal agility to speak their dialect. I’m gonna be a doctor!”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 10, 2016

I’m willing to bet you felt the same way about your first job. When we become the boss, we have a pretty fresh perspective on what people want from us. I’ll tell you what—it wasn’t until I started a company and became the CEO that I realized the problem. As my company grew, I really didn’t always know how people saw me.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

As Mario Andretti, the famous race car driver, once said, “If your car is under control, you’re not driving fast enough” (and this is a man who knows what fast means). I really don’t think leaders intentionally want to move slowly; but there are several factors preventing them from moving fast.

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CO2

APRIL 28, 2013

The threshold for becoming a life coach is pretty low; anyone can become one, but many do attend a local or nationally recognized certification program that provides them with a template for assisting clients. People in this field are often very warm, caring people who have a strong desire to help their clients move to a better life.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

That is what motivation looks like. Because we’ve heard these stories so much, we decided to do some digging to figure out what was causing employees, who were once highly driven and committed to the work, to lose their motivation. So, here are the five sources of demotivation and what leaders can do. Individual differences.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Yet, today, they’re demanding your complete trust, respect and allegiance. Self Appointed.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you’re among the group of active users who no longer find it confusing, but still haven’t hit your stride, you’re also in good company. What the Soothsayers Want You to Believe Have you ever noticed that profiteers seem to congregate around the complex, or at least what they can alter to appear as complex?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation? Oh, and what about development methodology? It is precisely the dispensing of one-size fits all advice that has allowed the ranks of consultants, coaches, mentors and other professional advisers to swell to historical proportions.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

According to Autumn Manning, CEO of YouEarnedIt, an employee engagement firm. “So Top performers want to work with other top performers,” according to Bill Sanders, managing director of Roebling Strauss, Inc., an operational strategy consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. So, what does that look like?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Develop Your Ability to Influence. If want to be a great leader, it’s not only about hitting your goals. And Maya Hu-Chan’s new book, SAVING FACE: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust is full of ways for leaders to: Increase your positive influence. What’s the Maya Hu-Chan definition of ‘saving face’?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

I encourage you to lend your support to these authors by commenting on their posts or sharing them on social media. Art summarizes, “For all of us, the need to help our firms navigate change while doing the same in our careers defines our level-up challenge.” David shares a better way to meet your leadership challenges.”

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 6, 2011

Although the book is intended to give all coaches at whatever level fresh ideas about how to improve their skills, it also provides business leaders interesting in hiring a coach an inside look at what to expect from an executive coach. Frisch Robert J. Lee Karen L.

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Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It’s not a part of their … what should we call it … oh, yes, their body of work. It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. So what is a real thought leader? They have a joint Twitter presence as @TLCTalk.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Starting Your Own Business? Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. If you have, you're not alone; 99.7%

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

In a highly productive organization the power and influence of your voice is earned through trust and performance, and not entitlement. It is one thing to be able to recruit talent, something altogether different to properly deploy individual talent, and quite another thing to have your talent play nicely in collaboration with one another.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 6, 2015

Fauzia Burke Many of the leadership books I read and sometimes review on my blog I first learn about from FSB Associates , a digital publicity and marketing firm specializing in creating awareness for books and authors. What is your title? What are your primary duties at work? Burke : Everything.

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