Tag Archives: Chamber
Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: How to make the best part of your work-life better? One of the longest running and most famous studies is Harvard’s 85-year research project on health. Researchers gathered health records from 724 people from all over the world, asking detailed questions about their lives at two-year intervals. When subjects reached retirement researchers found their biggest challenge “was...
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Posted on Monday, April 10, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
How Can Introverts Survive Hustle Culture?FRESH CONTENT
Hustle culture is the sentiment that we've never quite worked enough. Despite how much we've put in on a given day, we can't simply allow ourselves to rest and feel good about it. Hustle culture teaches us to be ever-critical of our own performance and to never stop improving. It's the ominous whisper before we sleep and the alarm...
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Posted on Thursday, April 6, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
This Might Be Why You Haven't Found Your Dream Job Yet
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Your dream job, a fulfilling and challenging career — it's a goal for many workers, being paid to do something they enjoy or in a role that gives them a sense of purpose. But with bills to pay, a family to feed, and debts to eliminate, pursuing a dream job can be elusive for many.
How can you achieve your...
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Posted on Monday, April 3, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
The 5 levels of EntrepreneurshipFRESH CONTENT
Embarking on the road of entrepreneurship can be frightening, uncertain and turbulent — especially at the start. On your journey, it's helpful to have a mental roadmap and to know what to expect from yourself along the way. Nobody is 100% clear and consistent from the onset and you'll naturally have fluctuating states of mind about the whole...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: Mini Ghosting that we may not realize we are doing
Ghosting is usually defined as when someone intentionally cuts off communication with a person they have a relationship with (or met on a dating site). But ghosting happens in the work world as well. It’s usually unintentional. Everyone is just so busy that they ignore emails or messages that could be responded to in less than a...
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Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Save Your Troubled Project By Using The RACI Matrix
The RACI matrix is a simple method of assigning roles within a team. It's adaptable even for the most complicated projects and can be used for a single team or multiple teams completing different phases of the project.
What is the RACI Matrix?
RACI is an acronym for the four roles that stakeholders hold in a...
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Posted on Monday, March 6, 2023
By:
Eileen Dautrich
Categories:
General
Monthly Piece Published in the Reading Eagle - March 2023The TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce within the last two months has held a very successful Membership Breakfast, Pottstown Progress Luncheon, and Boyertown Area Progress Dinner. In January we had a panel presentation at our Membership Breakfast focused on “Internships – Are They Right for My Business.”
The...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
By:
Hailey Heimbach
Categories:
General
Tip: Be aware of the blinker-ed conversationThere’s a school of thought that says, 'when you are speaking to someone, give them 100% of your focus.' We don’t think that’s exactly right...
Have you ever been THE person standing at the periphery of a conversation (and wanting to say hi to one or both people) and either they don’t see you, or just ignore you? This...
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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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