I have a client who is seeking a consultant to assist his small business with CRM. Specifically, he needs to find out what CRM software makes the most sense for his needs and his growing business. IF THIS IS YOUR EXPERTISE (not merely your experience with CRM and a recommendation), contact Peter Meyers. You can reach him at peter@standanddeliver.com. Tell him you heard of this from me.

I want to emphasize, this must be your expertise, not merely your experience with particular software. Please don’t write to me about this.

Contact:
Ara Norwood
ara@aranorwood.com

Phone: 805-657-5536

Please do NOT contact Alan Weiss

From Omar Khan: Criteria are:
*Extensive experience working with Boards and Directors on Corporate Governance issues (international experience a bonus).
*Strong credentials re: Board evaluation, Board guidelines and relationships between Holding Company Boards and those of subsidiary companies.
*Ability to generate high-level workshops with appropriate collateral material for CEOs and Board Members for “best practice” in Corporate Governance.

Please do not write to Alan, but to Omar Khan at:

omar@sensei-international.com

Passive-aggressive behavior, which seeks to hurt under the guise of help, is highly malicious and potentially damaging. (“Oh, your son was accepted into UCLA? Was that his second choice?”) In the June edition of HR Magazine, Signe Wilson offers these telltale signs that you’re dealing with a passive-aggressive personality:

• avoids responsibility
• performs less or deliberately underperforms
• misses deadlines
• withholds information
• uses communications other than face-to-face dealings
• arrives late for meetings
• gives lip services to suggestions which are not acted upon
• claims to lose or misplace important materials
• embarrasses others regularly, though seemingly inadvertently
• is constant in these behaviors

I’ve paraphrased, but beware of people who are deliberately inefficient and allow problems to grow if it means elevating them and degrading you.

We are seeking joint venture partner to outsource the operations and support of a HRIS environment to include the following functions:
· HRIS Provisioning and Administration
· Payroll processing
· COBRA administration
· FMLA/disability/leave management administration
· Worker’s Compensation administration
· Employment eligibility verification
· Background checking including criminal and other references
· Compliance reporting and requirements (i.e. EEO/AA, etc.)
· Safety administration (including OSHA compliance, ergonomics, etc.)
· Employee recruitment and selection
· Exit interviewing

We are seeking a single service provider with no fewer than 3 client references.

If you meet these criteria, please respond with a 1-2 page summary describing your company and the services you are offering by e-mail to: tulin2252@msn.com, by April 22, 2010.
Thanks
Bala Subramanian

Submitted by Andrew Sobel:

I am looking for one or more experienced consultants to work as subcontractors to deliver consulting and training programs based on my books (All for One, Making Rain, and Clients for Life) and intellectual property. My clients are large services firms that want to grow revenues by building long-term, trusted-advisor relationships with their clients. Candidates should meet the following criteria:
• 10 or more years experience as a consultant or trainer
• Track record of working with senior executives at the VP/SVP/Partner level
• Strong executive presence
• Excellent communications and facilitation skills
• Personal experience in building and sustaining executive relationships
I prefer candidates who are based in the New York area/on the east coast, as that is where much of the work is and where I currently reside, but that is not a requirement.

Please contact me by email at andrew@andrewsobel.com. I would appreciate a short statement of interest, a summary of the kinds of work you do, and a brief career history of some kind. If you have a resume or bio sketch please attach it. I will respond to all inquiries. My website is www.andrewsobel.com. Thank you, Andrew.

Request for marketing consultant based in Spain:

A Spanish commercial vehicle rental business is looking for support developing its marketing capabilities: identifying and selecting new sectors in Spain, and assisting the business in implementing marketing approaches. The consultant would need to be fluent in Spanish with good English, preferably be based in or near to Madrid with business-to-business experience and willing to get hands-on.

The client is looking to begin in early January.

Contact Steve Hacking at steve@latitude.co.uk, who can provide background and introduce the client.

Please respond to the contact information below, not to me. There is no need to copy me on any responses.

SERVICE REQUEST LEAD
The following client has requested a proposal based on the specifications included within this lead. To submit a proposal for this service lead, please visit our website at http://members.bostonusa.com

ORGANIZATION

Contact: Kathleen Berry
Company: Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practioners

SERVICE REQUIREMENT INFORMATION

Service Request Name: APFSP – Speaker
Event Date(s): 10-27-2009 – 10-27-2009
Event Time(s): –
Event Location:
# of Attendees:
Budget: 5,000
Deadline: 07-27-2009
Special Requirements: National Funeral Directors Association is definite at the BCEC October 2009. Client is with the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practitioners and is looking for someone to speak to her group.

She is still working out the details, but would like someone to speak for about 45 min to 1 hour.

Date: Tuesday 10/27/09

For either a breakfast, lunch or reception. Most likely the event will take place in the convention center.

She would love someone who could speak to one of these topics: leadership, service or family business, or could also be any Boston personalities.

Her budget is about $5000

– Visit http://members.bostonusa.com to view and respond to this lead. –

Michelle Hulbert
Assistant Director of Convention Services
Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau
Two Copley Place, Suite 105
Boston, MA 02116
Direct: (617) 867-8230 | fax: (617) 867-8393

Here I go again, trying to bring some optimism and positive techniques to the economy and consulting services. By the way, it was recently mentioned in the Wall Street Journalthat Europe will recover much more slowly than the U.S., which should be better days as early as the start of next year.

Consultants Newsreports in its June 5 edition (Kennedy Information, Peterborough, NH) that “…a large number (of consulting) firms said they have stepped up marketing and sales efforts to support top-line growth.”

In the June/July Business Week SmazzbizMichael Porter is cited (page 47) saying, “Those companies that ramp up capacity will be able to gain market share. Much larger organizations won’t be able to meet the demand because they’ve downsized and outsourced.”

Tell your clients as well as yourself that these are the times to invest in themselves and their near-term future.

© Alan Weiss 2009. All rights reserved.

My client, a large chemicals company, is looking for a marketing communications consultant to help with naming and branding a new polymer additive. Must have success examples in this or similar sectors. Please contact:

Office: 201-585-7600
cell: 201-407-8347
email: alan@fortierassociates.com

Alan Fortier
Fortier & Associates, Inc.
440 West Street
Fort Lee, NJ 07024

Here are some of the issues that major, for-profit organizations are facing today. These are gathered from my various communities, mentoring, ongoing client work, and trends seen in business publications. They are in random order.

• Productivity after cuts, resource reductions, and freezes.
• Retaining key customers and clients.
• Maintaining client service with fewer resources.
• Complaints about outsourcing, particularly overseas service lines.
• Managing cash flow, credit lines, receivables, accounts payable.
• Using technology efficiently, not only effectively; ROI on technology.
• Market share in competitive markets; value vs. price competition.
• Branding, consumer loyalty, word-of-mouth, reputation.
• Employee loyalty, commitment, and innovation.
• Reduction in costs while providing equal or better service levels.
• Pragmatic strategies that can be implemented short-term.
• Non-financial reward systems.
• Adherence with regulatory, audit, and ethical criteria.
• Objective, firm evaluations of performance.
• Global presence and penetration; sales beyond borders.
• Being viewed as environmentally friendly, sustaining, “green.”
• Successfully managing press and media relationships and image.
• Employee theft.
• Reducing customer theft: inappropriate returns, complaints, etc.
• Lowering costs of acquisition.
• Evolving a work force which mirrors the customer demographics.
• Being attractive to investors; pleasing shareholders.
• Finding and appointing high quality board members.
• Succession planning and “bench strength” with reduced staff.
• Collaborating with and managing external venders and resources.
• Rapid product commercialization.
• Creating, disseminating, and exploiting knowledge internally.
• Rapid problem solving and avoidance of repetitive problems.
• Decisions made once and avoidance of failure work.
• A bias for action over planning, meetings, and analysis.
• Making tough and often painful decisions about people.

Some of these vary by industry, but surely you have the value, competence, inclination, and passion to address many of these issues.

This is a great time to be a consultant if you find people who have the ability to pay for your value, and you can demonstrate dramatic and rapid ROI.

© Alan Weiss 2009. All rights reserved.

Hospital interim management job, southern California. Reports to the Director of HR. Major duties include developing competencies, creating or finding outsourced educational offerings, preparation for Joint Commission and state surveys, possibly assisting with recruiting and hiring. Original term for 3 months could extended on a month to monthly basis. Expenses include flight to home every other weekend, rental car and apartment.

Contact:
Leslie Furlow, PhD
AchieveMentors, Inc
USPO Address
P O Box 38
Cleburne, TX 76033

877-331-4321 voice
866-203-0622 fax
817-291-6303 mobile
leslie@achievementors.com

I need someone to listen to a three-hour audio presentation recorded live, and note where there are editing needs by the minute. For example, we need to cut out the dead air during exercises or breaks and so forth. I’ll give their detailed notes to my audio guy for editing and then duplication. I’ll provide an editing credit on the eventual product and $500 in cash or $1,000 toward any future workshop as a credit. I’ll ship the three CDs and would like them back with clear notes by elapsed time in two weeks. Any takers?

Thanks,

Alan

Our growing business has an immediate need for experienced New Jersey-based consultants who are independent, self driven, and highly motivated to proactively sell, educate, and develop leaders and management teams.

Our current client base includes mid-sized to Fortune 500 companies.

Augur Inc., now in its 13th year, provides client companies with objective resources and quality programs to help them identify how to improve individual and organizational effectiveness. This role is daily fee and/or commission based.

Please contact: Kathleen P. Frank, President, at kfrank@augurinc.com

I would like to speak with someone who has developed an original coaching program from scratch in partnership with a large client organization (this one has 3,700 employees) with the goal of having such a program sold as a for-profit service by the organization outside the organization.

My second choice would be someone who has developed a training program of some kind from scratch in partnership with a large client organization with the goal of having such a program sold as a for-profit service by the organization outside the organization.

My third choice would be someone who has developed any program from scratch in partnership with a large client organization with the goal of having such a program delivered either in-house and/or outside the organization.

In all cases, my goal is to get some idea of how long it took to complete the work so that I might estimate how long mine might take. It would be great if I could speak with this individual no later than end of day Wednesday (December 10). They may contact me at (403) 609-9939, ext. 201. Many thanks.

Alan Hobson,
Mt. Everest Climber, Summiteer & Cancer Survivor,
Climb Back from Cancer(TM) Coach,
Climb Back Inc.,
#5 — 100 Prospect Heights,
Canmore, Alberta, Canada,
T1W 2X8
Tel. (403) 609-9939, ext. 201
Alan Hobson

American Press Institute is looking for a speaker to lead a three-hour session on essential communication skills for new managers in the newspaper industry. The session is part of API’s upcoming seminar, “New Managers’ Survival Guide ,” Nov. 17-20, 2008, in Reston, Va. This essential seminar is for newly appointed managers across the organization as well as those being groomed for management positions and managers with no formal leadership development. Participants will gain a “big picture” understanding of their role within the organization and learn how to build and manage a highly functioning team.

This two-part session offers practical tips for enhancing communication skills. It will help prepare news organization managers for today’s complex and competitive business landscape where lucid, effective communication is essential. The ability to communicate successfully—to speak, write and listen expertly—will help participants gain greater professional recognition and will enable them to achieve powerful results.

This session is scheduled on Tuesday morning, Nov. 18, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Here are my thoughts on the content of the sessions.

Part 1: Conversational Skills That Get Attention and Gain Credibility
How well managers communicate can make or break their professional image. It’s more than what you say – it’s how you say it. Participants will learn how to:
§ Influence how others view their work, performance…even technical skill sets

§ Optimize communication skills they already have
Improve work relationships and reduce misunderstandings
Choose the right words even in difficult circumstances
Sharpen presentation skills to deliver a message that is both clear and appropriate to any audience

Part 2: Writing More Effective E-mails, Letters, Memos & Reports
In today’s busy workplaces, managers must be able to communicate with clarity and conciseness in written communication. In this session, participants will get the business writing skills they need for delivering information powerfully, persuasively and professionally.

API will pay travel, one night’s lodging at the Hyatt Regency Reston hotel and a modest honorarium. API is the newspaper industry’s premier executive development center, located 20 miles west of Washington, D.C. For more on information, please go to www.americanpressinstitute.org

If you are interested in this opportunity, I would be happy to discuss it by phone at your earliest convenience.

Mary Peskin
Associate Director
American Press Institute
11690 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
(703) 715-3336
(703) 620-5814 Fax
(703) 474-5564 Mobile
mpeskin@americanpressinstitute.org

I’m looking for someone who has experience in actually performing or managing vendors in customer data cleansing and enrichment for very large customer databases (~3-5 million customers) to collaborate on a project. Please contact Curtis Bingham of Predictive Consulting Group at curtis@predictiveconsulting.com with brief highlights of your experience.

I’m looking for 2 to 3 people, probably just starting out on their own; to facilitate two different sales classes I’ve developed. The rate would be $1,000 a day plus expenses. The individuals must have a strong sales background and be willing to follow my process. Contact: Bill Gager bgager@gager360.com

Please reply directly to Leslie, not to me:

Alan, I need an HR person with strong hospital experience for a 3-day overview consultation of a hospital’s HR department. Could you put out a request for me? Thank you in advance. Leslie

Leslie Furlow, RN, PhD
AchieveMentors, Inc
ManageMentors (interim management)

817-506-6032 (Voice)
877-331-4321 (Toll free)
866-203-0622 (Fax)
817-291-6303 (Mobile)

leslie@achievementors.com
www.achievementors.com

Mailing Address
P O Box 38
Cleburne, TX 76033

I’m looking for exceptionally talented trainers in Northern California for Presentation Skills contract training work starting in 2008. Much of the work would be with High Tech companies in the Silicon Valley with possible travel opportunities as well.
 
Candidates must have a flexible schedule and corporate training experience helping people of all speaking levels to be more effective presenters. If you are interested, please email me with your resume, bio, video links or other useful information to: robert@grahamcomm.net.

Wanted: Senior leadership training program to purchase or pay licensing fee so I can deliver it.
Target Audience: Senior executive team for a 1,000-employee, publicly-traded telecom company
Requirements: Proven program with multiple training modules and accompanying workbook for senior executives.
Contact: Tim Hoyle tim@awarenesscoaching.com or call 888 776 0984

Courtesy of the Institute of Management Consulting, please use the contact email below:

Looking for an Experienced OD Consultant

A client in Midwest is looking for a consultant who has experience with mid-market ($35-$100 million revenue) companies in rapid growth mode. Client needs demonstrated expertise advising companies undergoing cultural alignment of acquired companies, in particular people more than processes. Engagement would require helping client leaders evaluate and adjust strategic plan and developing and implementing a system of measurements for client service and retention. Also includes improving communication processes such as aligning messaging from leadership to employees to customers, and maintaining focus through growth. Terms of engagement are to collaborate and partner as sub-contractor for multi- tier, multi-phase project lasting and estimated 12 months.
Contact mwsa@imcusa.org

Please respond directly to the person whose conact information is below:

Needed: editor with some knowledge of Health Care to edit an anthology of nursing/healthcare leadership chapters. Contact:
Leslie Furlow, RN, PhD
AchieveMentors, Inc
ManageMentors (interim management)

817-506-6032 (Voice)
877-331-4321 (Toll free)
866-203-0622 (Fax)
817-291-6303 (Mobile)

leslie@achievementors.com
www.achievementors.com

We here at the Wellesley Hills Group – www.whillsgroup.com – are adding a senior marketing/business development manager person, and a mid-level marketer. Do you know anyone who meets these profiles?

Senior Consultant: http://www.whillsgroup.com/pages/30277_senior_consultant.cfm – 8+ years of experience. Able to lead client engagements and teams for consulting, marketing and lead generation. Someone who would be credible with consulting, accounting, and law firm leadership.

Senior Associate: http://www.whillsgroup.com/seniorassociate.cfm – 3+ years of experience. Hunger and desire to be the best at marketing. Versatile. Smart.

Reply directly to:

Mike Schultz
Principal
Wellesley Hills Group
600 Worcester Road
Suite 301
Framingham, MA 01702

mschultz@whillsgroup.com
www.whillsgroup.com
508-626-9991 x205

Experienced executive coaches (5 years or more) with graduate degree preferred, who currently do work with senior executives (VP and above), and who would like to be considered for inclusion as an external executive coach for a national hospital chain. Will require résumé, letters of reference, interview and a background check.

Please direct all inquires to my email address at drjkentferraro@aol.com.

Dr. Jay Kent-Ferraro

We are seeking:
An HR person with experience staffing rapid growth boutique professional service firms (background to also include McKinsey, Big-4 or similar).
Respond to:
Steve Rabin MBA CPA CITP
(408) 887-6433 cell
srabin@srabin.com

Customer Service Trainer Wanted
ProEdgeSkills, Inc. is expanding and needs a customer service enthusiast to conduct training programs. Go here: www.proedgeskills.com/Trainer.htm for details on qualifications, application process, and contact information. Position is subcontractor.
Mary Sandro
ProEdge Skills, Inc.
Be A Cut Above
Customer Service and Presentation Skills Training
www.ProEdgeSkills.com
1-617-241-0003

The writer is looking for a proofreader. Candidate needs experience proofreading documents with technical analysis and citations. Experience with tax, legal and financial materials helpful, but not required. Timing is immediate, and I prefer to be contacted by phone at 405-701-2846. Steve Ledgerwood

The writer is looking for a speaker or consultant who has an enterprise-wide customer satisfaction system that they can train the top 80 leaders of a Fortune 800 company to implement. He is not looking for just a speech with some points. Ideally, he is looking for a system that can be implemented internally and externally in an organization. This will be a global adoption of single system that senior leaders can drive in each division and geography.

He also needs a speaker or consultant who specializes in the area of customer satisfaction/service. He would prefer that they have a book on the topic, their work was research backed, or they had implemented their system organization-wide with other companies. It would be a plus if this person had significant business accomplishments in this area or performed in high-level Fortune 500 executive roles in the areas of service, training, or strategy.

For either position: Contact Koby@TheExpertCompany.com (Koby Fleck)

(Note: This is a public service of Alan’s Blog. All parties are expected to perform appropriate due diligence. Alan does not endorse nor support any party involved, and has no financial interest or involvement in the transactions. Do not contact Alan or any site other than the email address indicated.)