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Influence and persuasion | |
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Ludic Creative - improvising business. Using comedic/theatrical improvisation exercises to improve the basic business skills of listening, building on ideas, and innovating. Check out our most recent course.
| Consultants | |
Links marked with an asterisk * are consultants I know personally. I have studied or worked with them. Or they have studied with me. Should you engage one, please let them know that you found them through Cindy Tonkin at the Consultants' Consultant. This list grows and grows: If you know me and your site isn't here, let me know. Other links may be useful to your business. the sub-categories here are: |
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| Services for your Business | |
| HR and Mediation | *Dr Lynn Gribble Talking Trends - a full service consultancy for dealing with the people side of your business. Whether you want to improve your management style, start achieving your goals, or get some advice on your employee obligations Talking Trends can help you. |
| Legal Services | *Michael Palmer at Palmer Legal - My lawyer. Based in Bowral and Sydney. |
| Accountants and Financial Planners | *Peter Quinn at Quinn Consultants - my accountants and financial planners! |
| Corporate Travel | *Tim Owens and Jeremy Martin at Travel Together - Corporate travel specialists |
| Training and Coaching | |
| Sales training and Coaching | Paul McCord and Associates - real world lead generation and personal marketing training that will change your business and your career. |
| Voice, presentation | *Anne Maree Wilshire from Vibrant Voices. Also an amazing singer, songwriter and performer. |
| Queensland | *Jill Chivers at the Corporate Compass Learning and training provider servicing large professional organisations. Based in Queensland. |
| Tasmania | *Bronwyn Cross at BC Learning Solutions - Project Management, Change Management, Learning and Development, HR Management. Tasmanian based. |
| NLP | *Philippa Bond and *Lisa Every at Inform Training NLP and Influence - corporate and public programs |
| *Martha Follent of Creative Future Dynamics | |
| Teambuilding | *Ross Judd at Team Focus International Teambuilding |
| Leadership | *Paul Mitchell and his team at Human Enterprise Leadership coaching and training |
| Winston Churchill Leadership principles looks at the great man and the new science of leadership | |
| Training and HR Resources | Les Allan at Business Performance Pty Ltd provides a range of training management/administration and HR software resources on change management, career planning, communication and more. |
| Mentoring | *Ann Rolfe at Synergetic People Development - mentoring specialist |
| Sales | *Jeff Stibbard at Discover Performance Sales Training |
| *Fiona Knobel of Knobel Executive Coaching - WA based | |
| Community Services | *Breda Barry at Direct Focus Oz Change Management in the Community Services Sector |
| Business Improvement and Strategy | |
| Corporate | *Alan Cartwright at Incorporate Organisational Strategists |
| *Mark Goodwin at Phoenix Group integrating growth strategy and corporate development | |
| HR based | *Claire Golding at Optimum Comprehensive HR Services |
| Marketing, Brand and Image | |
| Financial Services Advertising | *Jacqui Bundy at Highway101 Financial marketing and advertising for the financial services sector. |
| Research | *Helen Bakewell and her team at Directional Insights - consumer and economic research consultancy specialising in shopping centres, leisure and recreational complexes |
| Image | *Vivienne Cable at Image by Design Corporate and professional image |
| Agents | |
| Victoria | *Denise Hall and Deirdre Gruiters at aCE talentnet Melbourne Based recruitment of Consultants, Contractors and Freelancers, placing consultants and Contractors across Australia. Consider joining their affiliate referral program, and make money for jobs you don't want to do! |
| Productivity Improvement / MOS | *Michelle Rogers at the MOS network recruitment and placement for Consultants, Contractors and Freelancers, particularly in productivity improvement |
| Playing and being artistic | |
| Come see a show | *Scared Scriptless Theatresports® - weekly improvised comedy at the Clarence Hotel in Petersham Sydney Australia (n.b. I play here some nights!) - Every Friday in 2005 in a smoke free bar! |
| Jewellery | *Belinda Stinson at Creatively Belle - beautiful jewellery |
| Share your talents | Arts Connect - artists of all types and styles showing their works |
| Improvising | *Ludic Creative - Richard Bennett and Cindy Tonkin - improvising skills for business and knowledge management through story telling *Lyn Pierse of Improcorp Australia - Improvisation and Theatresports® training |
| Personal Services | |
| Personal change | *Jennifer Moalem at Inspirall Personal evolution through Holographic Repatterning |
| Pampering | *Anna Field at The Paddington Beauty Room Pampering and beauty - true beauty consulting! |
| Direct Sales Parties | Col's Parties holds parties in Direct Sales - Join Colleen's team of consultants earning free merchandise and 25% commission! |
| Solve an issue | *Quentin Strauli at Glebe Healing Centre NLP, healing, Bowen Massage - anything you need to feel good. |
| Creative work | |
| Cindy's Photos | Come see my photos (occasionally updated) |
| Cindy's Collage and Mixed Media works | Check out my most recent works in collage and mixed media |
| Scared Scriptless Theatresports | Scared Scriptless Theatresports® - weekly improvised comedy at the Roxbury Hotel in Glebe, Sydney Australia - Every Friday |
| Improvising | My blog from an Improvising Intensive in Chicago 2008 |
| What's on in Sydney | What's on Sydney - They support Theatresports® Scared Scriptless by listing our improvised show - Go use it to find out what's on in entertainment in Sydney (Australia). |
| Simply Artists Ink | Simply artists simplifies the artists and arts advocate connection. They encourage artists to create, explore, network educate and learn. SAI is an On-line service for artists and arts advocates. SAI's searches out and provide opportunities for artists. |
| Influence and Persuasion | |
| Influence at work | Site that explains the different tools of influence and how they're used. Based on R Cialdini's 7 Principles of influence. |
| Encyclopedia of NLP | Defines key terms in NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming), a collection of psychological influence and therapeutic techniques. |
| NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Training Scotland | NLP Training in Scotland UK. Neuro-Linguistic Programming information for personal development, business and coaching |
| Multiple choice quiz on Cialdini's influence | Simple, text-based multiple choice questions. Good reminder. Followed up with another quiz |
| Social Psychology Network | General resource for social psychology, lots of links and information. Rather academic, but a good starting point if you're doing serious internet research. |
| Cognitive dissonance | One-page introduction to influence and cognitive dissonance. Several useful links. |
| Theory into Practice site | Contains descriptions of 50 theories relevant to human learning and instruction. |
| Steve's Primer on Practical Influence and Persuasion | Easy to read notes for an undergraduate course. A little nerdy and looks amateurish, but a good introduction. |
| CROW (Course Resources on the Web) Topic Persuasion | List of links to course material
on persuasion. Draws a lot on Steve's Primer, but some good links
under propaganda, cults and advertising. |
| Consulting Links | |
| Association of Management Consulting Firms | |
| Australian MOS Network | Informal group focusing on productivity and Management Operating System consulting. |
| Consulting central | News, articles, newsletters developed by Kennedy Information |
| ForeignMBA.com | List of links to articles and reports about consulting. |
| Institute of Management Consultants USA | A certifying body for consultants in USA. Seems rather inward-focused. |
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World peak body for management consulting institutes. Focused on certification. Society for Sole Practitioners |
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| Association of Internal Management Consultants (US Based) | For internal consultants. Not much information on the page, but you may be interested in finding out what they offer. |
| Quality Training | What a quality related training course should cover. Information about ISO 9001 Auditing, and other ISO 9000 related topics, as well as six sigma, Kaizen and problem-solving methods. |
| Training Programme Design | 3C Associates specialises in creative training programme design and development. They deliver management development training, customer service training, telephone sales training using the telephone, forum theatre & case studies |
| Consultants writing for consultants. Useful articles and links |
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| Management magazines | |
| MIT Sloan Management Review | |
| Fortune magazine | |
| Prism | Published by Arthur D. Little. |
| Strategy + Business | From Booz Allen Hamilton. |
| Mercer Management Journal | From Mercer Management Consulting. |
| Australian Institute of Management | |
| The McKinsey Quarterly | |
| Management guru.com | |
| Institute of Management Consultants | |
| Academy of Management Online | Association of management academics. Articles, conference calls, general information. |
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Large Management consultancies |
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| Accenture PricewaterhouseCoopers Cap Gemini Deloitte CSC KPMG McKinsey & Company Mercer Consulting Group AT Kearney Towers Perrin Booz Allen Hamilton IBM Consulting CGI Keane Consulting Group RSM International Perot Systems CIBER Monitor Action Company First Consulting Group |
SchlumbergerSema Logica The Boston Consulting Group Watson Wyatt Worldwide CBIZ Aon Consulting Arthur D Little Bain & Company T-Systems PA Consulting Group Milliman Global Telcordia Technologies Buck Consultants Technology Solutions Company Roland Berger & Partner CTG Hay Group |
| Other useful links | |
| Data Mining/Business intelligence | For Managers and Leaders - access and analyse the gold mine of data held within your organisation using the best business intelligence practice and software so your business' performance zooms ahead. |
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