Episode 64: The One About Workshop Must-Haves
Consultants are required to have multiple sets of skills. One of those involves bringing people together in workshops to address problems or work out complex tasks. Many consultants are terrible…
Episode 63: The One About Driving Real World Outcomes
Clients don’t hire consultants to learn about our unique frameworks or totally novel perspectives or listen to our thought projects on topics like AI, data strategy or new product development.…
Episode 62: The One About Work/Life Coherence
Vacation is a great time to contemplate life, work, and life and work. The two can frequently be at odds for most people. When we can relax our brains for…
Episode 61: The One About AI in Consulting
AI is taking over the world. It is suddenly and urgently intruding into everything. It can think better than you, faster than you, treats your kids better and is taking…
Episode 60: The One About Ego
Which is worst? Too much ego in the workplace, not ENOUGH ego in the workplace, an inability to read the room and tune to the right level of ego needed…
Episode 59: The One About Respect & Retention
Company culture is important, but not as important as profitability. Layoffs are necessary. Business is business… But you don’t have to treat your people like garbage. They’re your most valuable…
Episode 58: The One About Using LinkedIn for Success
There appear to be economic headwinds as we move into 2023. Tools like LinkedIn can be one of the most powerful weapons in your branding, sales, or employment arsenal. That…
Episode 57: The 2022 Christmas Special
With the year ending, and folks in various stages of vacation and merrymaking, the Consultants Saying Things team wanted to get together for our annual Christmas Special. This year…
Episode 56: The One About Social Media
Social media is a wonderful, terrible thing. It is a cosmos of tools that allow us to be our best or, perhaps more often, our worst. If we’re a knucklehead…
Episode 55: The One About Public Speaking
According to various polls, public speaking ranks as peoples’ top fear… ahead of snakes, heights, clowns and, in fact, death itself. Let that sink in. People would rather be DEAD…
Episode 54: The One About the Book Strategy to Reality
The knock on consulting is that so much of what goes on is either a bunch of fluff and hand-waving at a stratospheric, impractical level or narrowly focused on mostly…
Episode 53: The One About Mental Resiliency (With Experts)
Being mentally resilient in the face of everything the world throws at us can be daunting. Whether it’s work, family, friends, international politics… there’s a lot of stress on us…
Episode 52: The One About Mental Resiliency
Work can be hard. It can be stressful. Consulting in particular is full of A-Types who work long, busy hours trying to help in often frustrating client situations. What if…
Episode 51: The One About Architecture and Consulting
What is an architect? What is architecture? In the business technology context, is architecture a profession? What do architects do? A quick Google search reveals an endless debate on these…
Episode 50: The One About The Top 5 Special
Four years ago a friend told me that since I had so much to say about business and technology topics that I should go make a podcast. In retrospect I…
Episode 49: The One About Consulting Myths & Memes
The work environment can be tough. It is often political and tiresome and exhausting. The work week can be a tough slog. However… the workplace can often be very funny.…
Episode 48: The One About Assessing Consulting Skills
In the battle for talent, how do you identify people who are likely to exhibit the qualities you want? How do you do the same with your existing employees? Assessments?…
Episode 47: The One About Storytelling
We all know smart people. They often have smart plans and smart designs. Sometimes fancy shoes. But the smartest plan or design is totally useless if it can’t be explained…
Episode 46: The One About Business Architecture
There is often a tendency for companies to prioritize action and delivery over planning and analysis. More “Deliver the widgets!” and less “What does our company actually do?” This can…
Episode 45: The 2021 Christmas Special!
Well. 2021 is finally over. Did you learn anything? Will you do anything different with your career in 2022? If not now, then when? For our annual Christmas Special, we…
