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?.
Networking as social climbing, discuss-
BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing?.
A ‘brand’ is a set of promises that a Company or product makes about itself in the minds of a potential buyer. It’s a promise about the results that buying that product or service will deliver for the person that hands over their cash. Brands are built over time and defined by the ‘truthfulness’ of…
I’m speaking at a City (London) networking event next week, for Mercer, a top Actuarial, Imvestment and Outsourcing firm. I’ve been doing the pre-work with my contact, Eve Read who has helped set up ‘The Vine’, an internal training & networking group. She’s helped me to understand what she thinks would be useful for her…
I had a great chat with a colleague today. She’s an ex-investment banker. One of the UK’s ’40 people in investment banking under 40 to watch out for in 2011′. She’s smart, funny and worth listening to. As we chatted about clients and business development, networking and lots of other things, she told me a great…
Seven part personal branding series: The Importance of Branding Personal Brand Building: Niche Personal Brand Building: Differentiation Personal Brand Building: Branding Personal Brand Building: Affiliation Personal Branding Case Study: Garr Reynolds Personal Branding Litmus Test You’re asking your audience to believe in you, your team, your company or your product every time you stand up…
Last week I asked you if you knew about how much help was available to save your life in this recession. Now here’s some more good advice, to help you build on that, from a reliable source. In May 2009, Omniture asked 120 US-based Marketing Managers to rate the relative effectiveness of their digital-marketing media….
‘Stroking’ is an important skill to master, for people who want to be more likeable and socially confident. To keep things simple, a ‘stroke’ in human interaction, is simply a physical or verbal sign that we like, care or understand another human being. The simplest examples abound- [one_third]Physical strokes as follows- Listening attentively A touch of the hand…