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My own creative work | |||
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My other businesses:
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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 |
| Legal Services | *Michael Quinn at Quinn Legal - large corporate legal services |
| Training/meeting venue | *Cate Richards at Sydney Venue The funkiest meeting rooms in Sydney - for training and meetings. |
| Life Management | 101 Life Management is about goal setting, time management and organizing to live a happy, fulfilled life |
| 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 at Inform Training NLP and Influence - corporate and public programs |
| * Martha Follent of Creative Future Dynamics | |
| Soft Skills MBA | *Suzanne Mercier at Business Alchemy International - the Soft Skills MBA and other exciting programs to improve employee engagement. |
| 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 |
| Speakers | *Ian Stephens at Saxton Business Systems Sales Training |
| Sales | *Jeff Stibbard at Discover Performance Sales Training |
| WA | *Ani Lewis at NLP Global - WA based training and coaching |
| *Fiona Knobel of Knobel Executive Coaching - WA based | |
| Coaching | *Anna-Lucia Mackay at HCM Global - coaching and training. |
| 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 | |
| *Lee-Anne and Bill Carson at Performance Solutions International Corporate change and business growth | |
| 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! |
| Solve an issue | *Quentin Strauli at Glebe Healing Centre NLP, healing, Bowen Massage - anything you need to feel good. |
| Practical tools | *Howard Tinker at Lifetools transform your life through books, tapes and courses |
| My own creative work | |
| Photos | Come see my photos (occasionally updated) |
| Collage and Mixed Media | Check out my most recent works in collage and mixed media |
| Artasis - art you can afford to fall in love with - in Melbourne carry some of my works | |
| Scared Scriptless Theatresports | 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! |
| Comedy in Sydney | Comedy @ Sydney - support Theatresports® Scared Scriptless by listing our improvised show. Subscribe to the regular webzine to discover what's on in Comedy in Sydney (Australia). |
| What's on in Sydney | What's on Sydney - support Theatresports® Scared Scriptless by listing our improvised show - Go use it to find out what's on in entertainment in Sydney (Australia). |
| 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. |
| Crown House Publishing | Publishes a good range of books in NLP, hypnosis, personal growth, business, education, counselling and psychotherapy. |
| Encyclopedia of NLP | Defines key terms in NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming), a collection of psychological influence and therapeutic techniques. |
| Neurosemantics.com | Michael Hall's great online resource for NLP, state control and modelling. |
| INLPTA Review questions | Selection of review questions on NLP's application to business communication. |
| 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 |
| List of researchers in social influence | List of links to researcher profiles |
| Understanding influence and persuasion | One-page article introducting Cialdini's influence model. |
| NLP and hypnosis site | Ordinary looking site, but you can dig out some useful information. |
| 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. |
| Introduction to Affect Control Theory | Good basic information on the
theory that people change behaviours to control how they feel. A very
ugly site. |
| Social influence and cognition | Good short introduction to using
and understanding social influence in a mental health setting. |
| Consulting Links | |
| Association of Management Consulting Firms | |
| Australian MOS Network | Informal group focusing on productivity and Management Operating System consulting. |
| Sample Terms and conditions for consultancy | UK Institute of Management Consultants list some standard terms and conditions for consulting projects. Costs 20 pounds. |
| 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. |
| Families in business | CMG provides practical solutions for Families in Business - they look at the whole picture - not just the needs of the business entity, but the individual personalities, their role and needs |
| 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 American Management Systems 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 CBSI Aquent IT Services Hay Group |
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