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Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Tip: Can you have a personal networking style?
The Indeed
website in their career guide section offers lots of good networking tips, but we don’t think this one is completely possible:
“Find a suitable networking style. Different networking tactics work for different people. To find the best networking method for yourself, you may want to try a few different tactics. For example, an ...
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Posted
by
Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Tip: One simple line to personalize your LinkedIn page.
We recently facilitated an online training course and after the session we shared our LinkedIn information so we could continue to be connected with the participants. Pouyan Asgharian took us up on the invitation and we loved how he concluded the short LinkedIn ‘snapshot’ of himself.
Here is Pouyan’s “About" section on LinkedIn. We have ...
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Posted
by
Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Tip: Make asking for favors easier.
One of the reasons we build networks is so that we can support each other, but mentally it is a big leap to ask someone for a favor. Joe McCormack, who runs The Brief Lab offers these three barriers:
1. Fear of rejection
2. Not wanting to be a bother
3. Not having ever done the other person a favor first
For most of us, these are most definitely ...
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Posted
by
Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Tip: How many people do you REALLY know at work?
An immediate answer might be fairly easy. It’s the people on your team, those who work in close proximity, and who you go for drinks with after work.
But upon reflection, when you consider the number of people in your company, how many of those people:
● do you know what they do?
● can you say hello to by name?
● do you have a good level ...
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Posted
by
Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Tip: Do you need new blood in your network?
It is not our imagination that people’s networks have contracted. “A study published in the January 2021 issue of Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, found that our social and professional networks shrunk by roughly 16% during the pandemic. That’s about 200 people, the researchers say.”
Your network might need a transfusion! Here is a ...
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Posted
by
Hailey Heimbach
on Thursday, May 22, 2025
Tip: Are you an Infinite Horizon Networker?
We like Dorie Clark’s (author The Long Game) three types of professional networking relationships:
1. Short-term
2. Long-term
3. Infinite horizon
As explained by Carmine Gallo in this Inc. article, "2 Kinds of Professional Networking That Work–And One That Doesn’t":
Short-term networkers are often asking for one-off assistance in finding a ...
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