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Hailey Heimbach
on Monday, November 24, 2025
TIP: What can go wrong when you invite a team member to lunch.
We received an email after last week’s tip, “Buy lunch, but don’t go”, and we thought the email contained some good lessons when you do want to have lunch with one of your team. (The gist of the previous tip was sometimes your team wants to bond without their leaders or managers, so let them go out without you.)
The email went like ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Monday, November 24, 2025
Tip: Buy lunch…just don’t go.
Managers and leaders may think it’s a good bonding exercise to go to lunch with their teams, but Arthur C. Brooks, who writes a popular happiness series in The Atlantic, offers up some surprising (!) information: “spending time with the boss creates more negative emotions for employees than anything else across a normal day. (These researchers showed that time with ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Tip: Are you too cozy?
Do you:
● Chose texting over calling because it is easier?
● Operate primarily within a small circle, whether at work or socially, because that’s enough people, thank you very much!
● Have post-Covid Cocooning Syndrome or has the siren of Netflix, Hulu, etc. kept you cozied up to your screen?
● Cling to the old way of networking where others organize “networking ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Thursday, October 16, 2025
Tip: 62 words of smart networking advice
“Know your vibe and network accordingly. Introverts:
fewer people, deeper convos, escape routes encouraged. Extroverts: charm's great, but chill, listen and follow up like a human. Ambiverts: congrats on being versatile, now don’t burn out trying to be everyone all at once. Bottom line? Be curious, be clear, and challenge yourself to get out of your ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Tip: A new way to open a conversation with a stranger.
We opened up a New York Times article— “You’re Probably Doing Small Talk Wrong.”
Wow, yet another article on mastering small talk!
But we read on, and sort of liked what authors, Dr. Maya Rossignac-Milon and Dr. Erica Boothby, said about small talk. They suggest straying from the script and “riffing” off each other. The dictionary ...
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Posted
by
Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Tip: How to deal with 'The Wall' when first meeting someone.
Let’s say you meet someone and as you are talking to them you sense a ‘wall’ building. That person doesn’t seem interested in talking to you. When this happens most of us react to their demeanor. Your body stiffens, your smile tightens, and you start to feel uncomfortable.
Here’s the problem: emotions are contagious and you just ...
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Posted
by
Hailey Heimbach
on Monday, September 15, 2025
Tip: Why don’t people want to talk to one and other?
Of all the reasons people don’t like networking, this is the biggest one: Starting a conversation with a stranger can be awkward.
Why is that?
It’s a social phenomenon called mutual pluralist ignorance. This is how behavioral psychologist Nicholas Epley explains it, “Everyone is willing to talk but thinks everyone else is unwilling.” As a ...
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Posted
by
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 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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