Social Skills

Is ‘networking’ just social climbing by another name? Is social climbing always a bad thing?

Networking as social climbing, discuss- BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing?.

It’s a continuing dilemma isn’t it? Where should we take our clients for lunch? The short answer is, of course, somewhere- They’ll...

One of the many great benefits of being an itinerant speaker is that you visit great Companies, meet great people and learn...

In previous posts I have suggested that-Your network will save your business, given the chance and cared for. And I suggested 3...

I do a lot of work to help professional people, in very large firms, to become more comfortable with ‘networking’. They talk...

Conferences are hard work and can be sometimes a little soul destroying. Get the delegate list, identify your targets, book meetings, prepare...

As a professional, perhaps with a valuable technical expertise, the chances are that you are going to use conferences as a marketing...

We’ve talked for a few times about elevator pitches, and as so often happens, we like the idea of having an interesting,...