I recently experienced the effect of setting a goal before going to a business gathering, a networking event. Let me give you an example of the effect. Rae-Ann Ruszkowski was going to receive an award for her work at Working Wardrobes, a charitable organization that helps people in challenging situations enter the workforce and achieve […]
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Month: January 2012
Enhance Your Networking with LinkedIn
Networking is critical in today’s environment, and as I have discussed in previous posts, as well as in my Networking and Beyond workshops, it’s important to grow, manage, and work your network before you need it. While networking relies on and needs personal contact, online tools such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, are valuable tools […]
Networking Collaboration Post
I am looking to do a series of posts on my website and a brand new mini-book on networking that will be distributed in electronic form freely. Here is where you come in: I want your BEST and BIGGEST networking tip, or your BIGGEST networking success story, or what was your BIGGEST networking challenge & […]
3.5 Tips on What to Say Next
Ok, you arrive at the start time as mentioned in my previous Networking Nightmare post, before everybody is talking to someone already. Now what? Tip #1 sounds crazy, but it works: Start a conversation with the first person you make eye contact with in the room. That’s right, get the scary part out of the […]
Networking Nightmare
The Networking Nightmare / bummer: you walk into a networking event and everybody’s talking to everybody. Darn! Now what? Go home? Use this as an excuse to leave? Hang on, I’ve got you covered! Several tips: one today, more later. Tip number one: get there early. That’s right; “Fashionably late” does not apply to networking […]
Are You Networking or Socializing?
There are several articles that denounce socializing as trivial, boring; a waste of time. As if it’s the Amateur-Hour version of actual, business networking. I see it differently. Very differently. Socializing can lead to Networking: it’s honest, disarming, refreshing. It sneaks up on people. It somehow seems easier than the potentially intimidating “networking.” People fall […]