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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How To Stay Connected When You Are Not There [Updated]
Stay Connected Several years ago prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I was asked by a member of the Career Pivot Community about how to stay connected to his remote network during a job search. He and his wife are living in an area where the economy is in decline. He is looking for a job halfway across […]
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 […]
Are You a Closet Introvert? Are you Ready to Come Out?
Are you a Closet Introvert? I am a closet introvert. Several years ago I came out of the closet and admitted to myself that I could no longer act like an extrovert all of the time without paying a penalty. That penalty was damaging to my health. If you met me in person, you would […]
Weak Ties versus Strong Ties in your Job Search [Updated]
Weak Ties versus Strong Ties Weak ties—or weak connections—in your network are more valuable than strong ties! WHAT? Weak ties are those people who you do not know well…those people with whom you only have a casual relationship. Wait a minute. Everyone has been telling you that you need to network and develop deep relationships […]
