Have you ever had a senior leader or a seasoned colleague take you under their wing, open doors for you and personally advocate for your success?  If so, you’ve experienced a sponsor relationship, which is mentoring on steroids!
Women Take Notice
Over the years I have met many women who claim to have mentors, who’ve invested in [...]

Recently a brilliant friend and colleague described to me how she felt attending a professional meeting where she didn’t know anyone sitting around her as being, “awkward and painful,” when she found herself at a loss for how to break the ice with someone she doesn’t know. Here was someone who has so much [...]

Since so many of you liked last month’s blog about the importance of authenticity when connecting, I thought I would go a little deeper on the concept of connecting inward before you connect outward.   There really is truth in the age-old wisdom of treating your body as the sacred temple.  The more you care for [...]

One of the things I love the most about traveling around and speaking at conferences and meetings about Perfecting Connecting ® is the conversations I have afterward with audience members.  They often start with, “I really would like to be a better networker and connector but I’m so bad at it!” People have a very [...]

Are you a victim of Network drive-bys?  Have you been assaulted by a business card bombardier who only wanted to sell you something?  Attended one of those “grab & gab” and “tell & sell” rubber chicken so-called networking events where you left feeling violated?  Well, if you’re like the hundreds of people I talk to [...]

Summer is almost here which means if you’re a member of a professional association there is a good chance you will have an opportunity to attend your annual convention or conference in the near future.  Even companies who cancelled their annual meetings last year due to the poor economy are back on track this year [...]

When you’re lying flat on your back, all you can do is look up. That is the position I find myself in right now as I’m recovering from a foot surgery to correct a major deformity that has kept me from wearing almost 90% of the fashionable shoes in my closet. I have [...]

Let’s be honest…this time of the year can be very stressful. Shopping, decorating, addressing greeting cards, hosting and attending parties, mailing gifts, studying for school finals, housing out of town family members and winding down your business for 2009 are all stressful activities. The fact that we’re expected to do them all simultaneously [...]

It was one of those business trips where I was going to have to be on four planes and deliver the opening keynote for a conference all within 24 hours.  In an effort to conserve energy, I hunkered down in the seat of my first flight, turned on my ipod, opened my computer and entered [...]

$948.00 was the annual dollar value of each person in your work email address book according to a recent IBM study published in the Winter Information Systems Conference in February 2009. In other words, this means that every contact in your database has the potential of making you at least $948.00!
IBM and MIT researchers were [...]