Practicing Active Listening Skills Have you been practicing your active listening skills? My wife and I are back in Austin for a week to get some “stuff” done like getting the car registration renewed. I am very specifically working on practicing my active listening skills. When we were back in Austin in May to get […]
Reconnect and Awaken Dormant Ties to Revive Your Job Search
Awaken Dormant Ties to Revive Your Job Search My good friend Thom Singer recently recorded a video, Awaken Dormant Ties (the future of business relationships) where he stated that: There is so much value in reaching out to people with who you used to be connected and rebuilding those relationships. The term format dormant ties […]
Nurturing Relationships is Key to Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nurturing Relationships I have come to the conclusion that if we want to recover from this pandemic, both professionally and personally, we need to focus on nurturing relationships. After I had 26 coffee meetings while I was in Austin for the month of May, I was quite taken aback by how much difficulty some of […]
Are you Nervous about Networking After COVID-19? Here are some Tips
Nervous about Networking After COVID-19? Are you nervous about networking again? If you listened to my podcast episode, Getting Back to Normal – My Observations from 26 Coffee Meetings, you will understand why I am asking this question. So many of the people I met were being very careful about returning to any form of […]
Has Your Network Aged Out and Abandoned You During the Pandemic?
Has Your Network Aged Out? I am hearing over and over again about how people’s networks have “aged out”. Several years ago, I was working on a brand story with one of the members of the Career Pivot community who told me that new positions always came to her. She never needed to look because […]
5 Steps to Engage with Your Network and Build Profitable Relationships
Engage with Your Network and Build Profitable Relationships As we emerge from the pandemic are you ready to engage with your network? For most of us in the 2nd half of life, our network probably grew stale and possibly aged out. It is very likely that some of our friends, colleagues, and mentors may have […]
Community – What Is The Value Of Belonging To One?
Community Do you belong to a community? I am sure you do but what kind of community? There are all kinds of communities: Spiritual Professional Exercise Social Business I am sure there are others that I cannot think of, but we all belong to different kinds of communities. I cannot speak for everyone but for […]
7 Best Practices that Empower Your Career and Business
Best Practices that Empower Your Career and Business Have you developed some best practices that empower others to help you in your career and business? I was on a Zoom call run by a Meetup group called, LinkedIn Local Austin Networking. I have been involved with this group for years when I lived in Austin […]
Has Your Network Aged Out and Abandoned You? [Updated]
Has Your Network Aged Out? I am hearing over and over again about how people’s networks have “aged out”. I was working on a brand story with one of the members of the new Career Pivot community (look to hear a lot more about this in the coming weeks) who told me that new positions […]
