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Posted on Friday, February 24, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: The 8-minute phone call
In her 7-Day Happiness Challenge, Jancee Dunn, a columnist for The New York Times, shares lots of great ideas on how to improve the relationships in your work and life. Here is one that resonated with us: The Secret Power of the 8-Minute Phone Call.
Jancee suggests you think of someone you haven’t talked to in a while who you would like to...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: Take 10 seconds to diffuse a conversation.
Jason Aten’s Inc. article How Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Embrace the 10-Second Rule to Handle Difficult Situations, explains how, when a conversation is going off-track, you stop and wait 10 seconds before continuing. Here is the logic:
“There are several reasons this works. First, it allows you to take a...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
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Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: Prep Your ConversationWe recently revised our 88 Positive Networking® Tips for Conferences Quick Guide because this is the year that many of you will be attending in-person conferences again. We thought this tip from our guide was a helpful one to share.PREP YOUR CONVERSATION:
Andrew Reid, CEO of Rival Technologies, says, “Have something that’s current, on topic, and...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: Should you be a cheerleader or content sponge?
Good listening skills are usually referred to as “active listening,” but we like this new term, “adaptive listening.”
Communication expert, Nancy Duarte, in this MIT Sloan Review article says we all have a "default listening style" but "great listeners adapt the way they listen in each situation to help...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Leadership TriCounty Class Recap NovemberLeadership TriCounty started off their November class by visiting the Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities, which serves as one of Pottstown’s main food pantries. The Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities is not only a food pantry with delivery options, but also serves as a distribution center to other pantries. Over forty families are...
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Tagged:General, Information, Chamber, Leadership TriCounty
Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2023
By:
Eileen Dautrich
Categories:
General
Kicking Off 2023!I have used this article space before to talk about and focus on networking. Networking is the primary reason we hear that people are joining a Chamber/maintain their membership. They want to meet other businesspeople and hopefully those new connections become customers. It is not the focus of this article, but I do want to take any opportunity I can to remind everyone...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: 5 Ways To Power Up Your NetworkEven us—who think about networking all the time—noticed that after the pandemic we had let our networking slide. Being isolated during lockdowns, working from home, and even mask wearing all took away from easy connecting.Here are our best tips to power up your network: 1. Invite, like, comment, and post more on LinkedIn. Do it daily. This is a way to get...
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Posted on Monday, January 2, 2023
By:
Eileen Dautrich
Categories:
General
Looking back at 2022 — a year of milestonesThe end of the year is always an impactful time. A time to reflect on where you have been and a time to plan for where you still know you need to go. 2022 was an exciting year for the TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce. It was also a year of ceremony as we celebrated our 95th anniversary in 2022!
This month’s article is an opportunity for me...
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Tagged:General, Information, Chamber
Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2022
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
SHEPA LEARNING COMPANY WEEKLY POSITIVE NETWORKING® TIP
No. 989, December 21, 2022
By Gayle Hallgren and Judy Thomson
Tip: Here’s a place where you can expand your network.
Whether you own a business, work for a company or organization, are a young professional or are a solo entrepreneur, consider chambers of commerce or boards of trade. You may be...
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