Articles and Ideas

Here you'll find lots of free and useful articles and ideas, which will hopefully help you become and more confident and effective networker.

You can also find lots more articles on business networking and professional development on the main Kintish website.

Why women are such bad networkers!

Women are not natural networkers. We might be more capable in the workplace, but we are more likely than our male peers to hide our talents and ourselves behind the water cooler at the company do. And this failure to schmooze is holding us back. Read the full article here, and please get in touch with your thoughts!

Women failing to exploit online networks to boost business

71% of women are reluctant to use online social networks for professional purposes, failing to exploit their potential to improve business and career prospects. In contrast, 64% of men are maximising the business and social opportunities that sites such as Twitter can present. The research from Enterprise UK, released on Women's Enterprise Day, shows that women surveyed prefer to keep their business and social lives separate, whilst men are reaching out to friends and professional contacts for business advice and support. Read more of this article here.

Kintish have now become very knowledgeable in LinkedIn, a great social media tool for business development. For more information on our in-house and public courses, see www.linkedintraining.co.uk or contact us here.

Social Networking Sites for Business Women

Social networking is all the rage. Business women are really getting into using Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin to grow their social connections on the Internet and to market their business. Some say they have great success in building their business connections through these sites which is always a positive thing especially when you can use all the leads you can find.

While these are certainly networking sites you want to know about, women in business have additional social networking sites to explore that don’t get as much publicity. Here are just three that might be new to you. Each has a free option that can be used to start and some might require you join later at a fee.

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Women Prefer Blogs and Facebook to Twitter

The emergence of online networking sites has not only become important for women to keep in touch with friends and family, but also in finding those all important new business contacts. However, a recent study by BlogHer and Compass Partners has shown that women tend to keep their personal lives and business lives seperate when it comes to social media - using social networks solely for keeping in touch with friends and family.

Read the full article here.

Tips for Working Women

Shirley Conran, the high-wire queen of the work-life balance, has called on working women to fight their way out of the recession with grit, guts and guerrilla tactics. You can read the article in full here.

SHIRLEY’S TIPS FOR WORKING WOMEN

Be realistic. A woman can have it all, but probably not all at once.

Dump feelings of guilt over not being at home all the time. Remember you are dumping them to protect your psychological health, your spouse or boyfriend – if you have one – and any children.

One-parent mothers need to remember that no man – however wonderful – can replace a child’s father, so help it to see as much as possible of his or her father, and have a bit more time to yourself, too.

Try to be a bit healthier than you are at the moment. Any higher aim is unrealistic.

Plan on paper. Keep a diary and plan your weekends and evenings as carefully as you do your weekdays. Use an index card to plan your day, with not more than three things to do and three telephone calls to make. If you add something, cross something else off. List everything that needs doing and delegate all except five important items.

Don’t take on too much. If you do, get out of it firmly. Just say no and keep saying no.

My gran told me that you can’t get a quart out of a pint pot, and this is the key to self-management. Things haven’t changed. To get through life you need a fast, adaptable sense of priorities to achieve your particular work-life balance.

Build Your Self-Esteem

When business networking, women think, feel and behave differently, due to their self-esteem which is, basically, the relationship we have with ourselves. How much you like and value yourself often reflects on how others see you. When you attend events social or business, what fears and concerns do you have as a women walking into that room? Will Kintish will assist you through tips to overcome these in this article for business networking.