How to Take Your Team Consulting Business To The Next Level
What is best – remote online consulting or onsite consulting? With the advent of coaching on line and on the phone, should consulting take the same route. Absolutely not and here is why. With the soaring use of independent consultants for business growth, culture refinement and team building activities, the strategy to work from a […]
Encourage Risk-Taking to Bolster Team Building Success
Risk is defined as a ‘situation involving exposure to danger or failure.’ So when you mention the word, risk, several emotions come to mind such as: Fear Failure Stress Anxiety But without the element of risk, there would be no new discoveries, innovation, or progress – especially in the world of business. Without risk, organizations […]
7 Mistakes Business Consultants Make to Secure Steady Income
You’ve done it… you’re in business for yourself or are at least seriously thinking about taking the plunge. You’ve left the corporate 9:00- 5:00 world (nowadays more like 7:00 – 7:00) and have successfully started your own team building, training, consulting, or coaching business. You now choose your own clients, name your own hours, determine […]
How To Hire The Right Person For Your Team
How do you know you are hiring the right person for your team? This is the $1,000 question for leaders looking to attract and retain the best employees as companies spark into new growth cycles. Klaus Kocott, Klaus Kokott, Partner at Kokott, Wood & Associates, Inc., goes into detail on how to hire for fit […]
What Makes One Business Consultant More Successful than Another?
Ever wonder what separates the successful business consultant from the unsuccessful consultant? The answers may surprise you. It’s not that the successful are burning the midnight oil more than their counterparts, have a burgeoning rolodex of clients they can call on, or are commanding exorbitant consultation fees. These seasoned professionals share four common characteristics that […]
5 Pain Points Experienced by Independent Consultants and Trainers
Facilitators, consultants, and business coaches are an entrepreneurial bunch. They are self employed go-getters and internal company trainers that take on the responsibility of rebuilding and strengthening company culture and leadership skills. They often enter a corporate environment where team collaboration, cohesion, and leadership has been replaced by hostility, rumor-mongering, and high turnover. These facilitators […]
Thriving in the Wake of the Great Recession: Part 2 – A Way Through
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part blog series on where we take a hard look at organizational survival rates after historic recessions. In last week’s blog, I reported some stark statistics revealed by the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Over the last 3 recessions, approximately 80% of companies had not regained their prerecession […]
Thriving in the Wake of the Great Recession: The Challenges Ahead
As the nation emerges from one of the longest recessions in recent history, businesses are finding themselves wading through unprecedented waters. The newly emerging economy is experiencing slower than usual growth, high unemployment rates, a struggling global economy, and strapped financial options to boost capital expenditures. Are there insights into thriving in the wake of […]
Dealing With An Employee’s Death In The Workplace
Losing a co-worker to a sudden death is devistating to a family, community and most certainly the workplace. Here are a couple of resources that will help managers and HR Team Members. Training Judith Hurlburt, senior consultant and NLP coach, reports that how a death is handled by managers and HR is important to overall organizational health. […]
Leadership Reflections on Belonging and Kindness
Copyright TIGERS Success Series By Dianne Crampton I have given a lot of thought to belonging and kindness. Maybe as an adopted child I would spend a good part of my life contemplating it. Is belonging blood? Is it the family and friendships we create? Is it the community we build? Is it the people […]
