Building Trust
This action, performed weekly during client syncs, showcases new capabilities, features and functionality.
What is a demo?
This approach to consulting provides clear, actionable plans to the client which reduces risk of misunderstanding, aligns the consultant and client, and fosters trust.
What is Being Prescriptive?
This phrase, coined by Brené Brown, emphasizes the importance of leaning into curiosity to rumble with vulnerability.
What is "Dare to Lead?"
This mindset emphasizes strategic thinking, client-centricity, and a focus on delivering high-value, prescriptive solutions that address client needs holistically.
What is the Consultant Mindset?
This Google-developed, advanced AI-powered chatbot that can generate human-like text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way?
What is Gemini?
This document outlines topics and questions to be covered in a meeting, allowing stakeholders to be prepared.
What is an agenda?
This type of scope creep occurs when a client frequently alters their desired outcomes or project objectives, often leading to significant revisions and unexpected delays.
What are Changing Requirements?
Project artifacts, knowledge transfer documents, and meeting agendas are all examples of this crucial client-facing material.
Documentation
This factor in the trust equation represents not only expertise and knowledge but also the impact of your "presence" – your communication style, confidence, and ability to build rapport.
What is Credibility?
This AI-powered feature translates user requests into Looker Explore queries, eliminating the need for writing complex SQL and accelerating data exploration, all done by asking questions in natural language.
What is Looker Explore Assistant?
This type of professional has earned deep client trust and provides valuable guidance.
What is a Trusted Advisor?
This approach empowers users to independently access, analyze, and gain insights from data
What is Self-Service Analytics?
This formal document serves as the foundation for a project, summarizing key information gathered during the planning phases.
What is a Project Charter?
This internal meeting focuses on preparation for client interactions, including planning for the client meeting itself, updating project documentation (slides, documents, etc.), revising the project plan, estimates, and timelines, and preparing the client demo.
What is an internal sync?
This field focuses on the art and science of crafting effective instructions for AI models, especially large language models, to elicit the most relevant and helpful outputs.
What is Prompt Engineering
This type of client has high expectations that may be beyond the project scope.
What is an Unrealistic client?
This crucial document outlines a project, including these key aspects: business outcomes, scope, deliverables, tasks, estimates, timelines, resource allocation, risk and mitigation strategies, and a communication plan.
What is a Project Plan?
This type of external stakeholder is primarily concerned with high-level project updates, overall progress against goals and timelines, and the successful resolution of their organization's key challenges.
Who are Executives?
Every successful meeting consists of three key phases: preparation, execution, and this crucial final step.
What is follow-up?
This is the feature that utilizes Google's Gemini AI to automatically generate concise summaries of data presented on a dashboard, effectively highlighting key trends, outliers, and significant patterns within the visualized information?
What is Dashboard Summarizer?
This active listening technique involves paraphrasing or summarizing what the speaker has said, demonstrating understanding and encouraging further communication.
What is Reflective Listening?
This sub-strategy of business strategy defines how an organization will leverage data to achieve its goals. It encompasses people, processes, and technologies.
What is Data Strategy?
This time management method involves working in 25-minute intervals, followed by short breaks (e.g. 5 minutes), to improve focus and productivity.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
During regular client syncs, you should be prepared to showcase and discuss these tangible outputs of your work.
What are deliverables?
This is the service that allows users to create and execute machine learning models directly within Google BigQuery, and now leverages the power of Google's Gemini LLM for enhanced capabilities?
What is BigQuery ML (BQML)?