Summer is a time to chill out and networking isn’t on most people’s radar. Dressing up, standing around a windowless hotel meeting room, doing something that you already find kind of stressful—who wants to do that when you could be at the beach or on a bike ride after work? But networking during the summer […]
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I See You - The Power of Connecting
For many years I frequented to a corner grocery store called Sunshine Market. I probably visited at least four times a week, and then one day it dawned on me that these people never recognized me, nor acknowledged me as a ‘regular’. I didn’t expect that they would fawn all over me, or even know […]
Excellent ‘Mom’ Advice
We teach the skills of networking and connecting—everything from face-to-face connecting to conversation and social intelligence—and we think this story offers some of the best ‘mom’ advice out there. The Problem Peter Bregman, in an excellent article Getting Past a Communication Impasse, shares an incident where a colleague snaps at him and later offers a […]
Just a Bad Urban Legend?
Vancouver has a reputation for being an unfriendly place, but is it just some kind of bad urban legend? In the lead-up to the 2010 Olympics the organizers thought we needed some help in this department. They were busy giving speeches encouraging us ‘to smile’ and ‘give the world a hug.’ Smile? Hug? Are […]
