Crestcom

APRIL 21, 2023

I write books, I write presentations that make, so every day I’m mining for the latest insights on Generation Z. But they are, you know, responsible for mentoring and managing this, this new group of leaders, these Gen Zers are coming in. Gen Z does not have vast professional networks. They’ve got all that.

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Crestcom

JUNE 10, 2022

I joined a band later on with some friends of mine and I had to talk about this in my TEDx talk. And if there’s blockages the brain figures out how to use other neural networks to work around the blockage and repair itself. So I started playing bass and took, you know, bought me a bass and took lessons. I said, okay.

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Crestcom

JANUARY 6, 2023

Over the years, she has designed countless mentoring, training and leadership programs for her teams. She said, no daughter of mine will end up a stump. But a friend of mine is a fear coach. Our signature BPM program provides interactive management training with a results-oriented curriculum and prime networking opportunities.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

When it comes to finding a mentor, the most effective mentors are 3-5 years ahead of you in the workplace. I was wondering if there were any ways you knew of online to find a mentor. And I benefited both professionally and personally when someone in that position mentored me many years ago. Great post! Thank you!

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Befriend the intern to fire up your career Posted to: Networking | Promoting Yourself July 30th, 2010 Del.icio.us Think of quitting as a networking event. I'd imagine all these apply, especially the network bit, but would you add anything?

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 13, 2010

It is too cute that you refer to your husband as "the farmer" I might start referring to mine as the carpenter. ;o) I had picked HER plate instead of mine. The old sociology books used to call this drive to mentor and to coach "generativity" Penelope, your M.O. is mentoring/coaching, as well!!!

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Crestcom

JUNE 24, 2022

Our signature BPM program provides interactive management training with a results-oriented curriculum and prime networking opportunities. It’s you need an outlet to do that with a coach or with a great friend or a mentor or someone. Like it, that’s not the place to do it. Because you said it earlier, leadership is lonely.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

Mine are always not dry enough, not warm enough, or not dirty enough for going into the chicken house. Penelope's woodwork looks just like mine. If Penelope's woodwork is like mine, it's an orange color. Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Coats are very important on the farm. I'm female.)

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Women are inherently vulnerable: women get pregnant, and men never do, though an arc-feminist friend of mine once countered this fact with news from the inexorable march of science front, positing that, "Yes, now men can become pregnant, if they'd like." " That was in 1985.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Brief back story: I resigned from a job 2 weeks ago and plan to spend the next 6 months networking and volunteering, working as close to part-time as possible just to pay the bills. In my work with other entrepreneurs, many of them forget focus on the people (the networking and the contacts) who can help them obtain their goal.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

I want to be more diligent about finding a mentor to help me grow, outside of my supervisor. We meet many in our lives that can become our coaches or mentors, for longer or shorter periods of time. Finding a good mentor/coach/teacher is tough, but starting a blog exposes you to a huge measure of immediate coaching.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

link] Also, a dear co-worker of mine also has AS, and although I really like her, she tells things that can't possibly be true (e.g. "The He may not be able to do this himself very easily so a good support network is very important. — none of these things came close to the truth). Posted by Mark W.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Twitter can save your life Posted to: Networking February 10th, 2010 Del.icio.us Social media is about networking, and networking is about helping people. My problem is that I don't get social networking online.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

I'm a business student and I lead a business presentation two weeks ago to the US Director of Recruiting for Cummins, a Fortune 500 company, about Gen Y and recruiting them via social media networking. Subscribe -- free! The reason they have more Gen Y is that they can bill them high, pay them low.

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Penelope Trunk

JUNE 28, 2010

Marketers and publicists have made a science out of getting benefits from being a celebrity—sponsors, a fun network, great opportunities that lead to even greater opportunities. I like having a part of myself that will always be mine, not the community's. I cannot imagine having that taken. " I can hear it now.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2010

I do it for mine, too. In fact, today at lunch a colleague mentioned the NY Magazine article on parenting and we both said how much we both loved that article and then ended up spending the rest of the hour talking about it. :) Thanks for all time you spend adding links to your blog. I know how time consuming it is. I am as lost as I can be.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Mine is to make my website ( [link] ) more famous. I try to think of them as more of a change of life style, just makes it easier to keep going. Posted by steve on February 13, 2010 at 3:24 am | permalink | Reply I've made a new resolution too. Hope I can do it.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 14, 2010

Fortunately, we have a bitch session network on Brazen Careerist , and Ryan is in charge of it. And I totally relate to your desire to wake up every day and spend a nice long chunk of time at Starbucks…that just became a career goal of mine. I maintain that I'll be barefoot at mine, but thats a whole 'nother issue.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I'd like to add one idea from a mentor of mine, who led big organizations in both sectors. There ARE some nonprofits that are run this way (mine is!), A friend of mine is thinking of starting a for profit company that serves not for profits. Salesforce.com rocks! Even small not for profits usually have posted org.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I ask them what their favorite thing about their day was…and then I tell them mine. You just might find the happiness you are looking for has been there along! An easy way to do that is when you are tucking your little ones in at night. So how do you do it? And is that something you really want to do?

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

But every time I walk through my hall, I think about how important it is to take risks with my house – because that’s what makes it mine. Notes from a grouchy networker Comments (58) Leave a Comment Hi Penelope, Interesting points about taking risks! Which, of course, is very similar to a life.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I don’t see a crowd of people holding papers like mine. I say thank you, and then I see there is an LCD above each window in the whole place that shows the number and letter sequence that is almost like mine but not really mine. I'll try to add mine here. It seems mine just work out that way. Posted by Mark W.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 10, 2009

P.S. One of my mentors used to say "anything worth doing is worth doing 'badly'!" Also a favorite of mine, is not a post but an interview, which I can't find, where you and another blogger talk about how writers used to be something other than just writers and how that's a good thing for your writing.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I guard that timeslot jealously, for their sake and for mine. No way am I going to hang out at a gate for hours and hours and hours waiting to get on that next flight 'cause mine was cancelled. Travel and new experiences is one of mine. And if I'm gone for 2 weeks, the weekends are mine. Each to their own.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 6, 2009

You do it your way…I'll do it mine, and let's refrain from bashing others' because we don't like the layout or style they choose to use or the topic or thought they decide to post that day. ST Posted by STEPHANIE on October 10, 2009 at 2:08 pm | permalink | Reply Very good post.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 22, 2010

Is the most important thing to getting a good network? I've moved three times for a guy, giving up a great network and great job each time. (This, of course, does not have to be true.) And, good luck with the move back home. Question 2: How do I become an evangelist? Do I need to first become an expert? Should I relocate?

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Not that you asked for advice, but mine is to focus not on getting him to separate from X, which is his problem, but on how you deal with having a husband who isn't separated from X (the old saw: you can't change someone else, only yourself). But your problem is not that he has a separation issue with X.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Posted by Amy on September 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm | permalink | Reply It's really interesting to me, 'Lope, that you're such a good networker. Much of the time, when I network I fall into "hypnotic pacing", where I'm copying the other person's demeanor back at them.

Food 111

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

Good managers will do their own recruiting by having their own great network. "Truth in all its glorious mucus" is a fine and rare thing, offering uncut gems that we mine for ourselves. And managers already recruit through networks – at least in areas of short supply, or PAs who they take from job to job with them.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Find a business analogy that takes the feeling of failure out of it if that's a problem (here's one: a therapist is like a mentor for your marriage). You motivated me to get moving on social networking, jump in and learn to swim. Think of it as a kind of prophylactic. Thanks for the great post.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Mine does, and I'm smack-dab in the middle of what I thought I wanted: an historic home with sidewalks and tall trees within view of the Oklahoma Capitol dome. Mine does, and I'm smack-dab in the middle of what I thought I wanted: an historic home with sidewalks and tall trees within view of the Oklahoma Capitol dome.

IT 111

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Your career is only as strong as your network! Posted by S on December 6, 2009 at 11:48 am | permalink | Reply S, you have described a recent experience of mine almost exactly. Also, workplace catch phrases that annoy everyone are especially annoying if you’re not an extrovert: Toot your own horn! Let’s do lunch!

Career 111

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last week at a breakfast networking event, I didn't recognize the woman sitting next to me…ack. I won't generalize) But I find I want to say, this is mine. Posted by Ellen on November 24, 2009 at 2:54 pm | permalink | Reply I know what you mean, Ellen – I often have trouble matching faces with names.

Career 111

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 9, 2010

Someone whose income is regularly less than mine would probably jump for joy at my paycheck. Someone else may have been able to easily afford to buy food with the resources you had at the time. That being said, money management is also a relative thing. However, someone who regularly earns more would wonder how in the world I make ends meet.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I have some pretty crazy arguments for mine, also.) For some reason, your voice seems to get through to her much better and smoother than mine on topics like frugality etc. : ) She totally looks up to you as a mentor! Love that one!) And I'm sure other people's "needs" sound ridiculous to you. (I

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

He has asked me to not talk over him, but I have a hard time telling if it is his turn to talk or mine. It’s mine. Or maybe the silence is long enough that he is thinking I am going to talk. I start to panic because the rhythm of conversation is getting irregular, so I say, “Okay. And I hang up before he can say anything else.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Next step: Start milking your significant other's network of contacts since they are already impressed with you. I hope yours works better than mine did! I've been assigned as a mentor for a relatively new colleague and this may be a nice sign of appreciation for her work in somewhat difficult circumstances.

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