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Virtual Consulting Is Not Invisible Consulting!
Blog | Consulting Skills | PS Best Practices
|So you have another teleconference or videoconference to join remotely. It’s probably not the first one of the day or the last one of the ...
Read More The Formula For Sustainable Success For Professional Services Organizations
Blog | PS Best Practices
|Over the past eight years over 1,500 professional services organizations (PSOs) have participated in the Service Performance Insight annual Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark survey, and ...
Read More The Power of the Visual: Making Slide Decks That Aren’t Terrible
Blog | Consulting Skills
|The humble slide deck is a staple presentation method in virtually every consultant’s toolkit. Sadly, however, many professional slide presentations are so overdone that get ...
Read More Act Natural: Four Body Language Cues People Think About Too Much
Blog | Consulting Skills
|Body language has power, but it's most effective when natural and spontaneous. Unfortunately - thanks largely to the writings of amateurs - people repeatedly over-think ...
Read More Let Your Words Do The Talking
Blog | Consulting Skills
|Thoroughly, effectively and memorably expressing ideas is important for consultants to succeed. Metaphors are linguistic forklifts. A powerfully crafted word picture can heft even the ...
Read More Four Crazy Characters Offer Consulting Wisdom
Blog | Consulting Skills
|Spoiler alert! Consultants are jacks of all trades who must Always Be Learning. So we learn from everything, even curled up with a bucket of ...
Read More Road Warrior Tips for Consultants
Blog | Consulting Skills
|If consultants have to deliver like Jerry Seinfeld, sometimes they have to live like Jack Kerouac. Travel is a part of the gig, sometimes every ...
Read More The Straw Man Is Your Friend
Blog | Consulting Skills
|“Straw Man," not to be confused with the poor, brainless scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, is a different kind of tool we consultants use. ...
Read More Talking Shop: The Things We Say
Blog | Consulting Skills
|Part of the fun of being a consultant is using our own, special vocabulary. (And recognizing that sometimes, to other people, we sound ridiculous.) But ...
Read More The Mystique of a Consultant
Blog | Consulting Skills
|A person that always exceeds expectations is always admired, right? Maybe not...when you’re a consultant. A good first impression is key for a strong, lasting ...
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