I’m looking for Chairs who want to learn how to efficiently find new members. In my last blog posting, I mentioned that I would be creating a virtual course for a small group of chairs to find new members. This course is based on my decade of experience working with chairs, improving the chair interview […]
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Barry Deutsch • Barry Deutsch is a founding Partner of IMPACT Hiring Solutions, co-author of "You're NOT the Person I Hired", and "This is NOT the Position I Accepted". Barry is an award-winning international speaker, retained executive recruiter, and expert on hiring and retaining top talent, and executive job search.
Stop Being Invisible to CEOs in Your Community
Are you invisible to the vast majority of CEOs in your local community? Why do Chairs struggle to find members? I’ve spoken to a lot of chairs over the last few years through my Chair Group Program on How to Find Members, Chairs that are struggling to build their groups, Chairs that consistently have full […]
Networking Events - Add to Your Toolkit for Finding Members
Jason Jacobsohn, writing on his blog, Networking Insights, reminds us of the need and value of attending networking events. Even for the most introverted networker, these are important events to connect with CEOs/Presidents/Trusted Advisers. Jason lists these 5 benefits of attending networking events: Opportunity to meet many new people Opportunity to reconnect with existing relationships […]
More Tools for Leveraging Time
Here are some other interesting tools that a number of Chairs have told me they use on a regular basis and consider to be among their favorite tools for managing information and social media interactions. You can read more about each of these tools under our Social Media Tools Tab. Evernote – a tool that […]
Leveraging your time collecting information
This is a follow-up to Gini Dietrich’s excellent post on how to leverage your time in digesting all the information it takes to be an expert or authority figure – especially in blogging. I do it a little different than Gini – but accomplish similar results. First, I subscribe to over a 1,000 blogs on […]
Increasing Your Network One Relationship at a Time
Jason Jacobsohn, writing on his blog – Networking Insights – reminds us of the need to think about how we might help others upon meeting new people at “networking type events/opportunities”. You can read his full article about classic networking tactics at networking style events titled ” 2 Sure-Fire Ways to Walk Away with a […]
Advanced LinkedIn: Using the Polls Application
What do your connections think? Let’s assume you have all your current potential new members as 1st degree connections in LinkedIn. Have you considered conducting a short poll among them and then sharing the information? Perhaps, you could do a poll with the current members of your group? Jan Vermeiren, in his Networking Coach’s Opinion […]
How Can You Stand Out in a Crowded Field?
How can you stand out in a crowded sea of other leadership bloggers? How can you establish your brand as unique? How do you differentiate yourself to the point where CEOs look forward to your postings since they are so different from all the other generic stuff that everyone else posts in their blogs? Darren […]
How Can You Be FOUND?
Here’s an interesting blog post from Vicki Sullivan who recently wrote an interesting blog post at SullivanSpeakerOnline.com about how professional service providers (retained executive recruiters like me and Vistage Chairs like you) are FOUND when someone is searching for help or advice. She spoke to the fact that a recent survey from two highly regarded […]
Creating a Vision Board for Your Dreams and Goals
Occasionally I come across an application so interesting or dazzling that it’s worth a try. I stumbled across this one called Ript for creating a vision board of what I want in the future that it’s part fun and part strategic planning. You’ve got to try this. In fact, this might be a great exercise […]
