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Hailey Heimbach
on Thursday, April 24, 2025
Tip: Zoning out at virtual meetings?
Recent research from Ireland, Austria, and Finland reveals that "virtual meeting fatigue" is real and there are strategies to manage it. The team interviewed 30 management consultants and IT professionals from high-profile companies and some advice was: have meeting-free days, have breaks if meetings go long, and make personal behaviour changes.
A MIT SLOAN ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Tip: How to keep our heads in the chaos around us.
Each week we try to keep our tips focused on building better networks and enhancing relationships but lately we’ve been a little distracted — an understatement!
Sahil Bloom offers a useful perspective on “How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future.”
Uncertainty is coming from new technologies, (specifically AI) and now add global tariffs
to the ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Thursday, March 20, 2025
Tip: A stress-free way to introduce yourself.
“Let’s have everyone introduce themselves” says the meeting leader.
Most of us have some anxiety as we wait for our turn to speak, particularly when we are new to a group.
Andrea Wojnicki in a Harvard Business Review article, offers a simple way to introduce yourself. Think:
● Present
● Past
● Future
Here is an example in her article. We ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Tip: Four smart steps to better virtual communicating.
In Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication, Adam Brodsky, PhD, an award-winning professor at the University of Texas shares his framework to effectively communicate in the virtual world. He says it takes:
P: Perspective taking — Put yourself in the other person’s shoes and think about how they might interpret your ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Tip: "I appreciate you."... Do you really?
“How are you doing?”, “Let’s get together soon” and “I appreciate you” (a statement gaining popularity) are part of daily banter. There is nothing wrong with these questions or statements but most times they are just tossed out without any concern about the response. To create meaningful interactions these phrases need some additional words or actions. ...
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Hailey Heimbach
on Thursday, February 27, 2025
Business Community Unites to Advocate for Pro-Growth Tax Policy - U.S. Chamber of Commerce
What’s happening: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, alongside nearly 500 chambers and associations, sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to extend the pro-growth tax provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The letter emphasizes the importance of adopting a ...
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