Consulting Career

If you’re trying to break into freelance writing, you can’t get anywhere without a strong pitch. A well-crafted story pitch is your chance to prove that you’re the person for the job. This guidebook will help you land your first dream assignment and kick off your career as a freelance writer so that you can make money doing what you love.

Leadership is one of those things that we all think that we know what it is, but we are hard pressed to describe it to someone if they ask us. This makes picking the next generation of leaders that much harder. We want them to have the leadership skills that we know that they need, but how can we make sure that they have them? Some IT managers revert to using the time-tested trial-by-fire approach, but is this really the best way?

When you find yourself in a leadership position, you'll want to make the most of it. This means that you want to be viewed as being both powerful and effective. In order to make this happen, you need to have a good understanding of what leadership is really all about.

Viele Finanzberater haben nicht den gewünschten Erfolg und sind ständig auf der Suche nach neuen Kunden. Der Grund für den ausbleibenden Erfolg liegt oft in der falschen Strategie. Statt immer mehr Kunden zu beraten und ein immer größeres Produktportfolio anzubieten, gilt es, eine intelligente Strategie zu verfolgen, um mit weniger Kunden mehr Umsatz zu generieren. Viel mehr Umsatz. Marcus Renziehausen hat in den letzten 20 Jahren über 1.000 Finanzberater bei der Strategieentwicklung unterstützt.

In this practical guide, Cloé Caron, PCC shares her unique O2coaching 5C Leadership and Team Efficiency Model and her Unique Strategic Contribution (USC) concept with you. As an experienced coach and leadership consultant, founder and president of o2Coaching, a public speaker and author, Cloé has helped hundreds of leaders and their teams improve their strategic posture and team efficiency. With 20 years of experience, her book is sure to make you reflect on the required behaviors needed to achieve concrete and sustainable results.

Was macht einen guten Unternehmer aus? Wie denkt und handelt er? Wo liegt der Schlüssel zum Erfolg? Mit unverstelltem Blick und frischer Denke haben Simone und Jochen Stargardt charismatische Unternehmer aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum analysiert und befragt, deren Erfolgsprinzipien ergründet und in diesem Buch auf den Punkt gebracht. Herausgekommen sind sieben Grundsätze, die Top-Eigenschaften der Profis.

Werte: Klare Haltung, klarer Mehrwert. Emotionen: Wissen ist gut, Gefühle sind besser. Selbstverantwortung: Agieren statt reagieren. Geschichten: Dein einzigartiger Weg. Das Brand-Building-Modell: Mit acht Tools zur einzigartigen Marke.

As grown-ups, we tend to have several people depending on us. Our teams need us to be on our A game each day, and folks in our personal life need our time and attention. Adulting is exhausting and overwhelming at times. People who have been in overwhelm too long often feel discouraged and resigned that this is “just life.” Overwhelm is believed to be a natural consequence of their profession, the industry they work in or their stage of life.

The excitement of becoming an entrepreneur and starting a new business has faded. Your first dollar of revenue has been earned and quickly reinvested. Now, you are in the thick of the battle. This is where winning means making payroll for the month and losing means the bank foreclosing on your house. Maybe a professor talked you into running your own business. Or maybe you grew tired of serving in corporate America and working for underwhelming talent.

1000 Tips and Tools for Small Business Success is a compact, informative guide for small business owners and managers. Written by an expert business consultant, this handy volume provides helpful advice for all areas of managing a business. If you need answers to your HR, marketing, and operation management needs, you will find them here.

Future-Proofing Manufacturing & the Supply Chain Post COVID-19 provides practical go-forward business concepts than can be applied to any manufacturer, distributor, logistics, or supply chain organization. It covers from soup to nuts, function by function including strategy, talent, product supply, operations, and much more on what a company should do to safely navigate, successfully emerge, and prepare to thrive near-term as well as following the pandemic.

Denken wir nicht alle, wir wissen, wie Berufsalltag geht? Dass wir mit Fleiß und guter Arbeit schon die angemessene Anerkennung und die entsprechende Belohnung bekommen? Gar nichts wissen wir, sagt der Job- und Karriereexperte Daniel Rettig. Denn hätten Sie gedacht, dass Lob schadet und ein Plan B alles kaputtmacht? Von A wie "Alles dauert länger als man denkt" über I wie "Idioten werden eher Chef" bis zu Z wie "Ziele bremsen uns" enthält dieses Buch alles, was wir brauchen, um voranzukommen und dabei sogar noch geistig gesund zu bleiben.

We humans crave security. Yet, continual change and adaptation are the lifeblood of a company. Keeping an organization competitive and relevant means regular change, thus shattering the sense of security people have with their jobs and their livelihoods. It’s no wonder people resist change. No matter a global corporation or small business, change is often "done" to a voiceless workforce.

Whether it’s a global pandemic, an economic downturn, tough times for your company, or just a personal slump for you, it’s important not to panic. Instead, reflect on what got you here, what was in your control, what wasn’t, and what you can control moving forward to get out of it. I put this guide together to highlight and remind you of the fundamentals that are necessary in times like those. Interestingly enough, these are the same principles that will help you succeed in any climate at any time.

The whiteboard is not only a useful tool, but a powerful metaphor. This new "blank canvas" approach to business is changing how people and companies are executing and thriving in today’s world. Jason Balin and Chris Haddon show you how you too can "whiteboard" your way to a productive, leveraged, and highly profitable business.

Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung bei gleichzeitig zunehmendem Fachkräftemangel im IT-Bereich zwingt kleine und große Unternehmen zum Handeln. Viele Konzerne wenden sich seit Jahren an Dienstleister aus Ländern wie China und Indien, um dem zu entgehen und Kosten zu sparen. Aber warum in die Ferne schweifen, wenn Talente in Ost- und Südosteuropa in ausreichender Zahl zur Verfügung stehen? Der Autor skizziert mögliche Lösungsansätze, insbesondere für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, und die dabei aufkommenden Herausforderungen.

In order to be successful as an IT manager, you need to be able to show the company that under your leadership your team is able to deliver high quality products on time and under budget. If you want to have any chance of being able to pull this off, then you are going to have to discover ways to build a high performance IT team.

Inside this book, you’ll learn some lessons that many of your network marketing leaders and legends may not want you to hear. New school network marketing utilizes internet strategies to recruit, sell, and duplicate your efforts in a manner that can hyper-charge and automate your results. Do you keep your options open?

John Brekke is one of the nation's most veteran executive coaches. He has worked with the top executives in some of the world's most prestigious companies including 3M, General Growth Properties, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, Cigna, and Honeywell. But this was not always so. John spent much of his youth working on a farm in Northern Minnesota plowing, seeding, and bailing hay. Under the tutelage of his Uncle George he learned about more than just farming, he learned about life.

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.