The fourth Top Tip from our veteran consultant panel on Best Practices to Grow Your Consulting Business, "If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now" was to Stretch Yourself It's important to continue to morph and evolve as the marketplace, clients and prospective clients are always changing. This often means getting uncomfortable, and usually Read more...

Many people find that they need to withdraw funds from an existing retirement plan for such things as unforeseen expenses or to buy a home.  Though it’s not recommended that you pull money out of your retirement fund early, the IRS does recognize that there will be circumstances in which taxpayers may need to do Read more...

Following up on the detail behind our veteran consultant panel on Best Practices to Grow Your Consulting Business ... Plan on Continuous Improvement   Always look for ways to ‘up your game’. Don’t be satisfied with doing things the way you have always done them – especially if you have been practicing in your field Read more...

I recently participated on the WIC Panel of veteran consultants regarding "If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now" on Best Practices to Grow Your Consulting Business with Deb Siegle of Strategic Marketing Solutions, Kelli Richards of All Access Group,  and Norma Watenpaugh of Phoenix  Consulting Group. I'd like to share more detail on Read more...

Following up on my Best Practices to Grow Your Consulting Business post from our panel of veteran consultants, here is a bit more discussion around our first Top Tip. Don’t do everything yourself - Delegate, collaborate, and hire out Have you identified what you might outsource or bring in additional help to accomplish, to free Read more...

Are you leading your company or team through a risky or challenging time? There are ways to handle the risk well, such as by: - Preventing or eliminating it, perhaps by taking a different path toward your goal than you originally envisioned. - Reducing, retiming, or in other ways resizing risk. - Changing your perspective and comfort with uncertainty Read more...

“This feels risky! This feels risky!” A colleague and I were joking nervously on the first day of an intense, week long training class. We were about to begin a rigorous simulation as we learned to coach teams through high-risk, conflict-ripe situations. In the release of tension through humor, we were doing some personal risk management by being Read more...

I founded my consultancy almost 10 years ago.  At the time, I put together a marketing plan that was fantastic for 2004: create a static website, update testimonials every year, generate email newsletters on a quarterly basis, and keep an eye on something new called LinkedIn - a site I figured would probably go nowhere. Read more...

Four years ago I had no idea what “somatics” meant. Frankly, I thought it was a typo when I first saw it in print. Thankfully I’ve become much more familiar with this practice and why it should be an integral part of any leadership or personal development training. At the general meeting in April, my Read more...

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.” Alain de Botton A good half of the art of business is resilience, as well. Here’s how the need for it shows up, typically: - All signs are that things are going pretty well. - Oh, maybe the data show that one small thing is not quite Read more...