This week in the roundup, tips for advice that isn’t useful, extreme intimacy in the workplace, the power of LinkedIn for job seekers, more on relationship marketing, and expert insight for doing business in the social era.
Tips for handling off target advice – We often get questions in the myGreenlight community about how to handle the feedback and advice we seek from others, especially when it’s off track. HBR blogger and managing partner of Schaffer Consulting Ron Ashkenas and Schaffer Consultant Holly Newman’s article offers great tips managing these scenarios. Read it here http://bit.ly/AF0Hxg.
New levels of intimacy – This isn’t quite what we have in mind when we encourage people to foster intimacy in their working relationships, but you never can tell what may happen when you open the door of intimacy. As long it as also facilitates business goals I’m all for it. Read the study here http://bit.ly/wXrnBx.
LinkedIn reigns supreme – If you’re a job seeker, the place to be right now is LinkedIn. Above all other social media outlets, recruiters invest most of their time seeking appropriate candidates within the LinkedIn platform. Read more here http://tcrn.ch/wb3PN5.
More from Mari – Last week we recommended Mari Smith’s book on relationship marketing. This week we’re recommending you view her interview on Mashable. Enjoy. http://on.mash.to/zca4iU.
Rules for business in the social era – I highly recommend tuning into Nilofer Merchant’s series of HBR blogs and/or her new book The New How to learn how the social era can change the way you look up and down your organization’s hierarchy. http://bit.ly/A0459E.
Kibibi Springs is myGreenlight’s Community Director.
I find it a touchy area when you receive feedback from a peer which you feel is totally off base. I, personally, don’t want to give the impression I don’t respect their opinion but, occasionally a review may just be off base.
Thanks for the link for some tips in this area.