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Business owners: Hiring is about more than filling a role. It’s about adding to the culture and future of your business. Choose people who align with your vision, not just your job description.

Management and Program Analyst Regional opportunity, choose from one of the following locations: San Francisco, CA, Boulder City, NV, Seattle, WA, Vancouver, WA Apply online: https://lnkd.in/dZ36cbp4 Team Leadership & Program Evaluation: You'll take charge of assembling and leading expert teams to conduct thorough reviews and evaluations of various programs and activities. Your mission? To ensure these initiatives are efficient, effective, and fully compliant with relevant laws and regulations. You'll identify and tackle critical problem areas head-on, offering deep insights and actionable solutions. Collaborative Analysis: As both a leader and a key team player, you'll work within an interdisciplinary group to develop sound, impactful evaluations. Your contributions will help shape the findings, analyses, and recommendations that emerge from these collaborative efforts. Strategic Communication: Whether you're preparing detailed evaluation reports, drafting study outcomes, or crafting concise briefing papers, your ability to communicate complex findings clearly and persuasively is crucial. You'll be tasked with conveying key insights, analytical methods, and study conclusions to diverse audiences, ensuring that your message resonates and drives informed decision-making. See vacancy posting https://lnkd.in/dZ36cbp4 #Leadership #Teamwork #ProgramEvaluation #Compliance #Efficiency #EffectiveManagement #InterdisciplinaryTeam #StrategicCommunication #ProblemSolving #EvaluationReports #AnalyticalSkills #ProjectManagement #ProfessionalGrowth #CareerOpportunity #TeamLeadership #StudyRecommendations #ManagementConsulting #DataDriven #CareerDevelopment #Compliance #FederalCareers

Considering the investment in hiring a consultant can sometimes exceed initial expectations, regardless of your industry or background, what do you consider the most crucial deliverable from a consultant once you decide to engage their services? Like = Cost savings Celebrate = Compliance with standards Support = Workload optimization Love = Attentive problem-solving Insightful = Technical and strategic guidance Funny = All of the above Share your thoughts and comments below! ✍️

After spending tens of thousands of dollars and over 1,000 hours seeking information from professionals over the last couple years about how to grow and scale service-based businesses in the modern world… Here’s how I’d do it if I was starting from scratch in 2024. 1. I’d define my story and reason for getting into it, and let that serve as my North Star and vision. 2. I’d immediately find mentors that had done it before to help me shortcut the processes of success. 3. I’d spend the first 6 months to 1 year as a one man show obsessing over process; perfecting how to sell my service and who to sell it to, then how to deliver the service well. 4. I’d take detailed notes on all of this, outlining it all in step by step processes that even a 5th grader could follow, effectively creating SCALABLE REPEATABLE PROCESSES, or SRPs. 5. Once these were finished, I’d find a virtual assistant and meet with them a couple times a week until they were completing these SRPs on their own and do the same with a stateside team to fulfill the service. 6. Then I’d rinse and repeat until enough cash flow was coming in to hire a manager to oversee it all. Then I’d sell it to a strategic buyer and use that payout to fund the next thing.

I’m ready to clear the air and make things right. No, I didn’t get into a social media argument and haven’t for a while lol. I do want to clarify a bit about what a process consultant is and why it’s not the same as an operations manager. I feel like I’ve been somewhat using those interchangeably, and while they are closely related, it’s not the same exact thing. First, an operations manager is someone that oversees the day-to-day operations of a business/company. Some of my Content revolves around this because I was doing operational management for a small businesses when I transitioned to The Lazy Millennial. What I do as a process consultant is look at the big picture of everything and create and improve processes and policies that fit that image. Because I have a background with doing operational management, I blended these two together, but not everyone will have this skillset because that’s not what the job description entails. The documentation piece comes from a blend of the above, and of course, using things companies already having place to create trainings, SOPs, etc. The documenting portion is normally performed by a technical writer, but can also be done by the consultant and operational manager. So while there are some similarities between the roles, there are still key differences that make them different. I wanted to share this quick breakdown because a part of my work is making sure professionals make informed decisions, but you can’t do that if you are given the wrong information. Because my work provides a blend of all three, I am able to support you in different different ways and work alongside the team members you already have in place. Do you need one of the above professionals I mentioned above? I’m currently booking new clients for 2025, and would love to have a conversation to see if we could be fit. Send me the word “MANAGER” to start a conversation. #Operations #StaffingPlan #BusinessAdvice

Over the years, I've realized the importance of focusing on our strengths and collaborating with experts in specialized areas. While I enjoy learning and trying new things, attempting to do everything myself isn't always the most efficient approach. It's crucial to acknowledge our strengths and allocate our time wisely. Hiring or partnering with specialists can lead to better outcomes, even if it may seem more costly initially. Investing in expertise often pays off in the long run and results in a superior final product. Moreover, I've discovered that hiring experienced senior talent, despite the higher cost, can be more cost-effective in the long term. Seasoned professionals bring speed and quality to projects, reducing the need for rework that often occurs when working solely with junior staff. Recognizing the value of expertise and experience has been a game-changer in optimizing efficiency and achieving superior results. #realestate #brandmarketing #expert #sales #subjectmatterexpert

I worked with a client this week on what is holding him back from big growth. He has a chicken or the egg issue. I'll be that you do, too. He needs a serious senior level technician if he's going to bring in big work. And he doesn't want to bring in big work until he has that person. And he doesn't want to hire that person until he has big work. So we settled on a few items: 1- He has to consider this hire as an investment. "This is why you have an LOC." It allows you to make an investment when you need to take a leap. 2- He has to get comfortable with letting this senior level technician go if the big work doesn't follow. Record scratch. That's his real bottleneck. He is afraid to hire a friend (and trust me, this guy is friends with everyone who knows him) then have to let him go. So, we strategized on solutions. 1- Full transparency. "Friend, this is what I want to do and how I think I can do it. I want you to be with me as I shoot for the moon, but if we don't hit near the moon you'll have to go." 2- Sell the upside. We had already been talking about ways that he could create a "partner-track environment" that could create the upside a big time hire would be seeking. 3- Understand the reality, and know when you have to pull the plug. 4- Have rock-solid plans for bringing in the new business. 5- Know and understand that opening up one bottleneck will ALWAYS create another. In this case, the big hire technician is so good at his or her work that there is a huge bottleneck in business development. (SPOILER ALERT: when you clear the bottleneck in business development, there will be a new one in delivery. I promise.) Business ownership isn't about getting A's on your tests and papers. It is about constantly solving problems that allow you to be moving forward in the best way.

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You have two options when hiring a consultancy: 1/ A huge firm that’s historically been focused on management consulting and is now pivoting to technical consulting 2/ A small firm built around technical consulting and emergent technologies With the first option, you’re paying for strategists retrained to learn foundational technical skills their company has realized they need. With the second, you’re getting experts with technical backgrounds who likely have a much better understanding of bleeding-edge technologies. Personally, I don’t want to pay for a firm that’s repositioning. I want to pay for people who are already experts. --- What's been your experience with consultancy firms? Have you found more value in size and reputation or in specialized, cutting-edge expertise?

If someone says "unlimited revisions available in this project," it's just another way of saying you'll end up wasting all of the time you planned to save on "micromanaging" them throughout the project. If micromanagement is not your style, don't fall for it. #hiring #hiringtips #recruiting