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Mastering Workplace Readiness Skills For Organizational Success

Vantage Circle

They are personal qualities and abilities, inter-personal skills, and professional capabilities. Critical thinking and problem-solving. Customer service orientation. They should deliver thoughtful, courteous, and professional service, meeting the client’s needs. Personal qualities and abilities.

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The art of leadership begins with the science of building trust. Here are the 8 behaviors to model

Inventive Problem Solving

PwC, the second largest professional services firm in the world, conducted their 2016 global CEO survey which reported that 55% of CEOs think that lack of trust is a threat to their organization's growth. Does trust within a company culture really have an impact on business results?

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The Ultimate Guide To “Scoping”: How Consultants Define Problems and Shape 

StrategyU

This is why consulting can feel more like therapy than business problem-solving. This is the value of a consultant, the ability to continue to search for the problem behind the problem. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Other times, clients haven’t accepted or admitted to themselves.

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A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

StrategyU

Other professional services decided to get in the fun too with IBM, Deloitte and Arthur Anderson all having strategy consulting offerings by the mid 90s. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? McKinsey, Bain and BCG were still the leaders of this industry but they were much closer in scale to the other firms.