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This month’s posts are about resolutions, inspired by a connection Dr. Chris Mullen. This time of year, is typically filled with resolutions, and maybe by now, they have already been abandoned. Are these resolutions mistakes? Mistakes always happen. Until we transform them into good habits. Until we fine-tune them as part of our character. There is the adage by American educator Thomas H Palmer's Teacher's Manual (1840) 'Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again. Here’s the line-up for this month…. Resolutions: Habits Waiting to Happen or Mistakes? 🔹01-06: Lessons Learned: First Time Mistakes 🔹01-13: Decisions, Decisions:  Mistakes Made a Second Time 🔹 01-20: Forming Habits: Third Time a Mistake is Made 🔹01-27: Building Character: Mistakes Made Four Times PS: If you think this post will inspire your network, please share, and thanks in advance for re-posting. #BestAdvice #Business #Careers #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #ProjectManagement #ManagementConsulting

What is a Knowledge and Practice Institute and its origins? Let’s break it down. In the 1 Advantage Consulting publication, The 7 Pillars of Business Creation and Transformation, the sixth pillar is Knowledge and Practice. (aka, status quo, Training & Development, Enablement) 1 Advantage Consulting creates Knowledge and Practice Institutes. Why would a company want and need a Knowledge and Practice Institute? To establish a forum to create turbo-charged ambassadors. Who are these ambassadors? 1.     New Citizens to the company 2.     New Customer/Clients of the company 3.     Existing Citizens to the company 4.     Existing Customers/Clients of the company Everyone and anyone who is a citizen of your company would have the knowledge and practice to recite the JDPI (Jaw-Dropping Product Introduction), whenever they are asked “where do you work and what do you do”. We find it reasonable to integrate the two words, knowledge, and practice to be a functional area of a business that 1AC creates (or transforms). When you are ready... Here are three ways a Knowledge and Practice Institute approach will improve your company: 1.     Converts Citizens into PRODUCERS in 90 to 120 days. 2.     Can be MONITIZED as a revenue stream for the company. 3.     Transforms Citizens into long-term ambassadors that create CLIENT AMBASSADORS. Please comment. 🗣️🗣️ Learn more about this by visiting and following 1 Advantage Consulting Inspire your network and share this post… ♻️♻️ #BestAdvice #Business #Careers #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #ProjectManagement #ManagementConsulting

Leadership authority does not come from a proposal. It is all well and fine for the consultant to explain to the client how great their proposal is but that is not how trust, expertise, and authority are established. Results happen when you are boots on the ground with whatever level of client relationship you embark. Meet your client where they are; intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. STRIVE TO BE: 1.      Organized 2.      Disciplined 3.      Analytical 4.      Focused 5.      Creative 6.      Realistic 7.      Compassionate When team ideas align with best practice methods (that have been proposed by the consultant) you have a framework from which to start. This is when the consultant needs to be “invisible.” The consultant is teaching sponsor level leadership how to “lead from behind.” Paraphrased from Lao Tzu: “A leader is best when people barely know they exist, when their work is done, the aim fulfilled, the project team will say: we did it ourselves.” This is the “art” of leadership. It is where we draw our leadership superpower. Please comment. 🗣️🗣️ Inspire your network and share this post… ♻️♻️ #BestAdvice #Business #Careers #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #ProjectManagement #ManagementConsulting

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What gift do you consider priceless? Do you consider feeling satisfied a priceless gift? If someone could eliminate the frustration of coming up with the right answer to the wrong question, would you consider this priceless? Our clients, often, are experts at doing this. We created a strategy to help them set sail into a blue ocean. First things first: Designing "priceless" is essential to being in demand. So how does this happen? STEP ONE: A culture of curiosity champions ‘priceless’. Many times, the only thing clients are “curious” about are what everyone else is doing and how they could be better than their competition. We explain that better will bring a mediocre result. Becoming GREAT would take the power of “design thinking”. STEP TWO: Harvesting the power of design thinking starts with optimism. They [typically] are not at all optimistic about their chances using the design thinking approach. But they [mostly] have courage to give it a try. STEP THREE: Unprecedented value comes from the “unspoken” need. The client does not hear the unspoken need because they were too busy listening to what THEY THINK is the need. We work through this noise by enticing them to LISTEN to the body language of their customers. STEP FOUR: Be obsessed with doing your best with less on a continuous basis. A deep dive is conducted of what constitutes ‘best’ and ‘less’. Lots of surprises are uncovered [gratefully] by the client. STEP FIVE: Ensure every level of the organization benefits. This IS difficult for the client. They insist that the executives take all the risks. We convinced them if not for the people doing the implementing, there would be no way to determine risk. We create a risk/reward program that the executives can live with, and the rest of the organization feels valued; tangibly and intangibly. We make clear we will cancel the project if they are unable and unwilling to employ this program. Yes, that’s right… we are willing to walk away from an 18-month high six-figure engagement. STEP SIX [MOST IMPORTANT] Always watch for the one thing others have missed. We coach to be on continuous lookout. They learn quickly to leave no stone unturned and adhere to tactic number 1: A culture of curiosity champions ‘priceless’. The client embraces these 6 activities to achieve a whole new group of ambassadors [aka repeat customers] that increase their annual recurring revenue by at least 30% and provide at least a 3:1 ROI on their investment with us. Be IN DEMAND: What is "priceless" for your customer? Please comment. 🗣️🗣️ Inspire your network and share this post… ♻️♻️ #BestAdvice #Business #Careers #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #ProjectManagement #ManagementConsulting

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A theory called The Rhodium Circle© was developed in the front-line trenches of 1 Advantage Consulting. It is based upon Founder mentality. Here’s why we call it The Rhodium Circle©. Rhodium is a NOBLE metal that imparts an extremely bright and hard-wearing finish when applied as plating to enhance, protect, and preserve luster. The theory, when adapted into a unique and elite method and system, personifies the WHY for clients. WHY are they especially working with us? Because they are protected by The Rhodium Circle© This theory is premised upon wanting to be acknowledged, understood, and ACCEPTED. Founders are inventors, visionaries… many times. Creating, nurturing, and propagating their invention is their sole focus. A founder often invents alone. The founder will typically create a “society” (a.k.a. company) around their invention. They are asking others to acknowledge, understand, and accept their invention, and, more importantly, them. The alignment of their character, morals, and ethics (them) ensues until there is synergy and fusion. The CULTURE of a company cannot be created unless there is a synergy and fusion of character, morals, and ethics. If the authentic IDENTITY of the Founder is not established, then a CULTURE cannot be created. If a CULTURE is not established, then the company’s identity is confusing. If the company’s identity is confusing, then the community they build cannot cultivate Brand AMBASSADORS. The Founder’s INVENTION is the CENTER of The Rhodium Circle©. The Rhodium Circle is built exclusively and uniquely for them. It is within this circle they thrive and flourish. Do you want to know more about The Rhodium Circle© that’s uniquely yours? Please comment. 🗣🗣️ Inspire your community – please share this post. ♻️♻️ #Business #BestAdvice #Leadership #Entreprenuership #EmotionalIntelligence #ProjectManagement #ManagementConsulting

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This month’s posts [every Monday] are 1 Advantage Consulting holiday gifts on how to employ SELF-Empowerment to Defeat Sameness. How having the COURAGE TO DO THIS is what will distinguish your OUTCOMES for your clients. These gifts will bring results to your clients that unique and unparalleled excellence and at least a 3:1 ROI in a client’s investment. Doing things that no one else will do or take on is one of the hallmark strategies of the consulting firm 1 Advantage Consulting. Our methods and systems are all individually designed, created, and implemented to serve one purpose and one purpose only… to provide that 1 Advantage to our clients. The 1 Advantage that… No one else thought of, much less DARED to create a method and system upon. Identifies the clients unique and unparalleled excellence. Unique and unparalleled excellence, delivered with dignity and respect to a client’s traditions, while disrupting the status quo that has held them back, cannot be packaged, leveraged, or replicated. Only certain clients have the COURAGE to solve their most complex and costly problems in this manner. This week highlights theories, methods, and systems we use to create these matchless outcomes. Here’s the line-up of our holiday gifts to the LinkedIn community. 12/02 - The Month in Review 12/09 – The Rhodium Circle Theory 12/16 – Designing Priceless 12/23 – Leading from Behind 12/30 – Knowledge & Performance Centers Which gift are you looking forward to unwrapping? Please comment. Inspire your network and share this post… #BestAdvice #Business #Careers #Leadership #EmotionalIntelligence #ProjectManagement #ManagementConsulting