Business Skills
Top Tips from Top Networkers
I always love getting advice from fellow expert networkers, so I thought I'd curate a few top tips from top networkers from across the country, from Dublin to Donegal, and lots of places in...
Business Skills
How to Network When You Are Shy
When people see me on Zoom calls, chairing meetings or speaking, the last thing they think about me is that I am shy. But I am and always will be. Until my early twenties...
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What Is a 1-2-1 And Why Are They Important?
When I started networking, outside my corporate career, and as a representative of a small business, I kept hearing people say, book in your 1-2-1s before next week. And to be honest, I had...
Business Skills
Setting Your Networking Goals for 2021
If it's not in writing then it doesn't exist. This is a mantra I live by and one that I have espoused in any job or role I've ever had. I learned it quickly...
Business Skills
6 Ways to Improve Your Linkedin Profile
Linkedin is one of the most powerful online business to business networking tools out there. There are umpteen articles and trainings out there on how to use it effectively, how to create your profile...
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Micro Networking Opportunities
Virtually all of our networking is now online and it's new for many people.
I'll be focussing quite a few blogs on online and virtual networking in the coming weeks, but for now I wanted...
Business Skills
Online Tools for Increasing Productivity
What does productivity have to do with networking? Well, when networking is done correctly it takes time. I often hear of business owners telling me that they don't have time to network. And every...
Business Skills
ACEing it With Maureen McCowen
Maureen McCowen and I have been part of the South Dublin Chamber together for a number of years now. We are both part of the Citywest B2B networking group that meets every Friday morning...