Business East 2017 - Mandie Holgate's Networking Seminar

Fight the Fear

Business East 2017 exhibition at the Western Homes Stadium, home of Colchester United, kicked off with a very impressive speaker - Mandie Holgate. Mandie is a professional business coach, author and noted public speaker. Mandie certainly ‘walks the walk’ as founder of the very successful, Business Woman’s Network.  

Mandie gave a very interesting seminar on Networking with lots of tips on how to work the room and get your personal brand ‘out there’ in way that is authentic, convincing and likely to get real results. How to spot the people who ‘Like’ everybody, but where relationships never go beyond the initial platitudes. Spotting the ‘jugulars’ - more aggressive individuals with no time to waste, who grab fellow networkers by the throat [metaphorically speaking] with a rather aggressive impersonal approach - thrusting businesses cards into delegates hands, before walking off to more imagined, lush pastures.

Finding the right balance and approach, as well as spotting the body language to be able to introduce yourself to groups in the room with the right message and tone, were topics dealt with.  Listening, not just talking, and building a relationship, without giving strangers your full life story from day one, were all themes we picked-up-on from, this enterprising, entertaining and very visual speaker. It certainly kicked of Business East with a bang and the event was 'rammed' by lunch-time. 

We have certainly stocked on free pens, promo bags sweets and stress balls for the year. We might need even bigger desks at this rate for all the executive toys -Ed.  Roll on 2018. 

Mandie has a book coming out from top publisher Pearson in May called Fight the Fear ISBN:9781292155951 Retail: £14.99 We understand the book being stocked by major retailers such as WH Smiths. We also understand that Mandie is featured in Good Housekeeping magazine next month. 

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Image: Business East 2017 early on, later in the day these isles were heaving.