We've talked about the importance of interpersonal skills before, with casts on topics like handshakes, meal etiquette, and how to be effective in everyday conversations. As a professional, career management skills are what determines whether or not you'll be successful. The reason for that is often times the most important business gets done at dinner, at parties, at conferences, at conventions, at product launch events, at annual meetings, on the golf course, at non-profit fundraisers. So, what do you when you walk into a party and don't seem to know anyone there?
Visit us in person or at a virtual training, find out more information now: <a href="https://www.manager-tools.com/emc?utm_source=career-tools&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=emc&utm_content=career-tools-2026-10-22">manager-tools.com/emc</a>

We've talked about the importance of interpersonal skills before, with casts on topics like handshakes, meal etiquette, and how to be effective in everyday conversations. As a professional, career management skills are what determines whether or not you'll be successful. The reason for that is often times the most important business gets done at dinner, at parties, at conferences, at conventions, at product launch events, at annual meetings, on the golf course, at non-profit fundraisers. So, what do you when you walk into a party and don't seem to know anyone there? Visit us in person or at a virtual training, find out more information now: manager-tools.com/emc

We've talked about the importance of interpersonal skills before, with casts on topics like handshakes, meal etiquette, and how to be effective in everyday conversations. As a professional, career management skills are what determines whether or not you'll be successful. The reason for that is often times the most important business gets done at dinner, at parties, at conferences, at conventions, at product launch events, at annual meetings, on the golf course, at non-profit fundraisers. So, what do you when you walk into a party and don't seem to know anyone there?
Visit us in person or at a virtual training, find out more information now: <a href="https://www.manager-tools.com/emc?utm_source=career-tools&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=emc&amp;utm_content=career-tools-2026-10-22" rel="noopener noreferrer">manager-tools.com/emc</a>

How to Politely Become Part of a Group

This cast explains how to introduce one person to another in social and business settings.

How To Introduce People

In this cast, we describe how to be effective in everyday conversations.

How to be Effective in Everyday Conversations

This cast recommends what every professional ought to know about your organization's basic financial health.

Organizational Finance Basics

This cast describes how to determine your boss's preferred communication style, and how to be more effective knowing it.

Is Your Boss a Reader or a Listener?

This cast describes how to ask for advice, and increase your chances of not only being successful in obtaining advice from this person once, but many times.

How To Ask For Advice

This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for how to attend a meeting when your boss asks you to go in his/her place.
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This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for how to attend a meeting when your boss asks you to go in his/her place. Join us in London for more details visit: www.manager-tools.com/london

This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for how to attend a meeting when your boss asks you to go in his/her place.
Join us in London for more details visit: <a href="https://www.manager-tools.com/london?utm_source=career-tools&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=london&amp;utm_content=career-tools-2026-10-08" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.manager-tools.com/london</a>

Attending a Meeting For Your Boss (2026)

This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for how to attend a meeting when your boss asks you to go in his/her place.

Attending a Meeting For Your Boss

This cast concludes our conversation on how to change jobs between states, countries or industries.

How To Transfer Between States/Industries - Part 2

This cast explains how to change jobs between states, countries or industries.

How To Transfer Between States/Industries - Part 1

This cast concludes our Career Tools' recommendations for textual communications on portable devices.

Portable Messaging Basics - Part 2

This cast describes Career Tools' recommendations for textual communications on portable devices.

Portable Messaging Basics - Part 1

This cast concludes our conversation on recommendations for what to do when you make a mistake.

Admitting Mistakes - Part 2

Career Tools is a weekly podcast focused on specific actions you can take to grow and enhance your career, whether you are a manager or not.  Career Tools won the Podcast Awards Best Business podcast in 2010 and was nominated every other year it has been eligible.  Whether you are interested in jump-starting a stalled career, or sharpening your edge, Career Tools is the podcast for you. Go to http://www.manager-tools.com/testimonials to read what others are saying about the impact Career Tools has had on their careers and lives.

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Career Tools is a weekly podcast focused on specific actions you can take to grow and enhance your career, whether you are a manager or not. Career Tools won the Podcast Awards Best Business podcast in 2010 and was nominated every other year it has been eligible. Whether you are interested in jump-starting a stalled career, or sharpening your edge, Career Tools is the podcast for you. Go to http://www.manager-tools.com/testimonials to read what others are saying about the impact Career Tools has had on their careers and lives.

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