Make Your Mark    

I just led a networking workshop with this same title the other day and wow, the room was packed with eager folks. I had to turn some people away! I’ll have to do it again soon. (Sign up here to be notified.) Clearly there’s a big unmet need for help with networking, especially among introverts [...]

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I find that in our Western culture, that both introverts and extroverts have a negative view of introversion. Or they confuse it with social anxiety or shyness. It comes up so often in my career coaching work that I have to devote a page to it. Introversion is not a judgment. It simply refers to [...]

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Whether you’re applying for a job, pitching your services to a client, or telling your boss why you need a raise, you need to be ready to tell your “accomplishment story.”

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The key to making online networking (or social media networking) work for you is so simple. It may seem obvious at first, yet most people using social media are not doing this. If you do, you’ll have the edge.

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I love a good “unconference.” Have you heard of this idea? They are taking place all over the world on every topic. The peer-to-peer structure of an unconference makes for the ultimate learning and networking experience — even for an introvert like me! Here’s my ode to unconferences (“BarCamps”) and the one I recently attended, [...]

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