Consulting Career

At 17, Alexa Carlin became CEO of her first company, designing jewelry that made a difference, one bracelet at a time. But at 21, she was induced into a medical coma and given a one-percent chance to live. In Adaptable, she shares the stories of her journey, offering powerful insights into hope, courage, and life’s challenges. Written and narrated in a heartfelt and authentic tone, Adaptable invites listeners to develop a new perspective on their past and current obstacles.

Your unique personal brand is your insatiable Why. Think about why you do what you do. What motivates you? What tasks make you feel fulfilled? Are you striving to become better? Run Your Own Race: 12 Steps to Building Your Powerful Personal Brand equips listeners with the intentional behaviors needed to maintain a strong personal brand in a crowded marketplace. Regardless of where you are in your career, personal branding is a vital skillset to continuously hone.

In her first book Clarifying What Matters: Creating Direction for Your Career, executive coach and career advisor Erica Mattison draws upon her expertise to guide mission-driven professionals to leverage their strengths and make a great living. Reflecting on her own diverse career journey and her coaching clients' transformations, Erica shares mindsets and tactical steps to help you clarify what matters most to you.

Few decisions we make are more important than the ones about the direction of our career. With good reason, more and more people are questioning whether the employee model is right for them. Most have recognized that job security is based on what they are now contributing, and past contributions matter little. They look around and see others who made the leap to become an independent consultant (or freelancer), making far more money, doing more exciting work, and just having more fun.

Straighten the spin of your thoughts from negative to accurate. Imagine a life where you do not believe every story in your head. Imagine controlling your attitude by PUSHing through to accurate and empowering thoughts. Imagine being given permission to quit negative thoughts and think differently. Thoughts spin inside our head at an uncontrollable pace. It’s time to own our spin and master our thought intelligence.

This little distance learning playbook is here to help you. You will learn 20 silly yet engaging virtual activities. So, you can get your virtual classroom to laugh more, interact more, engage more, and have even more fun as though you were all still in a physical classroom! The first part will get your class to have some quick laughs. The second part gets into more sophisticated online class team-building activities that may require some preparation.

We've entered a new era. Call it the age of imagination, ideation, conceptualization, creativity, or innovation - take your pick. Creativity, mental flexibility, and collaboration have displaced one-dimensional intelligence and isolated determination as core ingredients of competitive advantage. But these methods and mindsets needed to drive innovation are only found by tapping into the discretionary levels of passion, creativity and initiative within us. This is where Out Think leadership comes in.

Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the best-selling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual.

When we sit down to negotiate, we are really entering into a very specialized conversation with the other side of the table. We have a set of goals and they have their own set of goals. The purpose of the negotiation conversation is to find out if there is a way that the needs of both sides of the table can be met.

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on. The one thing that too many of us end up overlooking as we try to accomplish all of these things is that we have one more management job to do: Manage our careers.

Many people wonder through life without knowing their real purpose. They skip from job to job hoping to stumble into something they like, or can at least handle. There's no need to continue living like this. This book is here to help you learn how to do just that.

In a world where trust is scarce and competition is rampant, "Stop The Credibility Crisis" emerges as the essential guide for expert business owners navigating the murky waters of the expertise economy. Not just hope but tangible strategies to transform your business from overlooked to overbooked.

In today's dynamic workplace landscape, success isn't just about technical skills—it's about mastering the art of workplace etiquette and behavior. Whether you're a seasoned executive or just starting your career journey, this comprehensive guide will empower you to navigate professional environments with confidence, integrity, and grace.

Experiencing challenges, being broken, and having to pick up the pieces of our lives is part of the human condition. Eventually, we learn how to fit those pieces back together so they make sense, we are stronger, and our faith becomes greater. Steven Edgley knows about putting the pieces back together after experiencing a devastating life event. As a stroke survivor, he has written Life Between Two Gardens to record his amazing journey of survival, recovery, and faith in the Lord.

This authoritative volume on human resource management is highly recommended listening for the small business owners and HR professionals. Written by an acknowledged expert in all areas of business management, Managing Employee Performance is a well-organized guide to understanding this vitally important area of your business.

As a consultant, you have embraced a noble profession - one that is challenging in its variety and gratifying as you see your expertise change the lives of your grateful clients. Perhaps more than any other line of work, consulting reveals precisely who you are. What skills, expertise, and problem-solving abilities are you bringing to the table? The challenge is to be exceptional.

Karen Phelan is sorry. She really is. She tried to do business by the numbers-the management consultant way- developing measures, optimizing processes, and quantifying performance. The only problem is that businesses are run by people. And people can't be plugged into formulas or summed up in scorecards.

If you're looking for an effective and proven approach to product management - one that recognizes that the majority of product managers enter the field with little or no training and must learn through trial and error - this is the book for you. Take Charge Product Management guides you step-by-step along the product management path with tips, tactics, and tools to make you and your products more successful.

Selling. It's at the heart of all business, but it's one of the least understood areas of successful commerce. A big reason for this is that the traditional methods and models of sales simply do not work. Sooner or later, using any of these methods will fail...leaving you asking, "What do I do now?" John Grubbs answers this question in parable form with The Wolf Sales Method. Stories are the core of the human condition, the simplest way to tell and to teach.

Do you consistently deliver unmatched value yet find your income doesn't mirror your expertise? You're not alone in feeling the sting of undervaluation. The annoyance of seeing others, perhaps less skilled, out-earning you can be frustrating. You're not alone. But what if the issue isn't "what you do", but how you position it?