Welcome to the Saturday Summary.
What I’ve Written – Blog Summary
This week, the first three posts focus on building our personal network as part of our personal branding ecosystem.
Building a Network. This post provides 10 ideas to support you as you continue to build and nurture your professional network. You never know what these connections might lead to.
Networking is Like Relationship Marketing. After spending a career dedicated to relationship marketing. This post provides some insight on how the same principles apply to networking.
How Diverse is Your Network? Diversity can mean many things to many people and often comes around to demographic differences. This post explores what “occupational diversity” means.
Exploring Change. This post talks about three ways to think about change – sandbox, quest, and cycle. There are several links to past posts that you might also find helpful.
Post-Corporate Insights. For those of us who have left corporate roles and ventured out on our own, it’s difficult to express the transitions. This post is for those who left….and those who remain.
What I’ve Listened To – PodList
This week, the focus aligns well to topics in the blog. For those exploring what’s next in their career (by choice or not), I hope some these curated choices will resonate.
Your Life Plan Fell Apart. Now What? 14 minutes. The Next Big Idea Daily. What happens when in a single moment, life makes a pivot? This episode provides highlights from the book Resurface. A guide for those navigating life’s big transitions…from grief to career changes and identity shifts.
Kendall Berg on Winning the Career Game. 44 minutes. Beyond the To-Do List. This podcast interview explores content from the book, Secrets of the Career Game: 36 Simple Strategies to Win in the Workplace.
6 Solutions When Life Feels Hopeless. 12 minutes. Optimal Living Daily. When life feels overwhelming, this episode provides strategies to restore hope and purpose.
Unsolicited Advice: How to Get Your Mojo Back at Work. 37 minutes. TED Talks Daily. This episode provides tips and tricks for recovering from constant stress, owning what you need to feel alive and engaged, and creating an experience of work that unleashes your ambition.
4 Easy Ways to Develop Your Chrisma. 9 minutes. Optimal Work Daily. This podcast suggests that charisma is a learnable skill rooted in presence, empathy, and confidence.
What I’ve Been Up To
On the professional front, I made progress on my goal to focus projects for the 2nd half of the year. I have a couple specific programs in the works that you’ll hear more about in the weeks to come. This work is surfacing a lot of questions in my mind about workshops – full day vs. spread out an hour a week. Live vs. recorded. We all lead busy lives…. I’m not sure if we are more likely to engage if activities are spread out or concentrated in one session. Any thoughts? Please drop me a note.
Outside of work, I spent time reading (one fiction and one non-fiction in progress), hanging out with the family and enjoying the summer. When I watched TV, I bounced between the current seasons of Georgia & Ginny and The Summer I Turned Pretty. Soon, I’ll have to find some new series to follow.
What Do You Think?
Do you focus on your professional network? How might you strengthen loose ties?
Did any of the podcasts resonate this week? What idea did you take away?
How can you move into the rest of the year with a renewed focus on your career path?