Balancing Work and Industry Events: Being Open with Your Boss
Balancing work and industry events Balancing work and industry events in your busy organization is not easy. Engaging with industry associations can become harder if your boss doesn't support the concept. Your boss may feel that industry association meetings are...
Participating in Industry Events: Beware!
What If My Boss Thinks I'm Looking for a Job? When you work to raise your visibility in your industry, many of you may feel you're at risk of creating an impression with your boss that you're looking for a new job opportunity. Many industry events are advertised as...
Industry Associations: Meet Experts and Demonstrate Openness
As we previously discussed, there are many reasons to attend industry association events. Meeting experts and demonstrating openness are just two. Meeting experts. You have a lot going on at your organization, and a key asset to accelerating your progress is...
Industry Associations: Hear and Introduce Best Practices
As we previously discussed, there are many reasons to attend industry association events. One of those is to have the opportunity to hear and introduce best practices. Hear best practices Industry associations provide services to their members that focus on...
Industry Associations: Identifying Talent
There are a number of reasons to attend industry association events And identifying talent is just one of them, as Chief Executive Officer of the Northeast Human Resources Association, Tracy Burns, knows firsthand. “It is very clear to me that the key...
Cultivating Your Visibility in BOTH Your Organization and Industry
Your professional success rests with the degree to which you raise your visibility in your organization AND your industry. You could spend all of your time being visible within your organization at the expense of industry visibility. However, when you're only...
Engaging with Industry Associations: Obstacles & Excuses
Your desire to attend meetings and events with industry associations probably feels like a dream. The ability to attend during your workday, after your workday ends, or on the weekend is likely compromised in the following ways: Lack of Energy You are so exhausted...
Overcoming Participation Hurdles
There are all kinds of things that "get in the way" of people making time to participate in organizational activities. Here are a few typical hurdles you may find to participating in your organization or industry - as well as some suggestions for overcoming them....
Participation Activities
When wanting to get more involved in your organization and industry, consider organizing your participation activities by contributions, engagement, attending and leading. Contribute When you contribute, you're identifying activities in which you provide...
Over-Investing in Networking
The ways in which you can participate one-to-many are endless In the Raise Your Visibility & Value model, it is assumed that there are an infinite number of ways to participate with a purpose. Of them, networking is just one. Recall that networking is the...
