From Quiet to Quite a Mingling Maven® “I was always quiet and often felt shy at events, meetings and even parties”, said Rosa Baez-Lopez,then Vice-President of Human Resources at Clearbrook, a Chicago-land social services agency. “I started as the receptionist for another agency and was working with Carl LaMell, the new bookkeeper, who always encouraged […]
How To Work A Room® or Zoom: A New Look at Face-To-Face Networking In a Hybrid World
It’s been a helluva 18 months since the Corona Virus created the pandemonium of a pandemic! Returning to the “new ABnormal” (a phrase I’ve used for 18 months) has contributed to our anxiety and feeling we are “rusty” in social situations. Many of us are returning to workplaces, meetings, conferences and concerts. We adapted our […]
Something Tough to Say? If Skittish, Try Yiddish
by Susan RoAne “Cyber dreck” … that’s what the Wall Street Journal said in 1992 was the composition of much that was on the WWW. I roared, knowing full well what the Wall Street Journal thought of much of the stuff floating on the internet. I was inspired and motivated to reclaim dreck in my […]