Networking Tips For The Misfits
- Focus on building genuine connections and relationships, not transactional relationships based on what other people can do for you.
- Ask questions that have nothing to do with work.
- Give heartfelt compliments.
- Be a person your new colleague-friends can trust.
- Actively support your co-workers, back up their ideas, offer help when you can and celebrate their successes.
- Set boundaries and stick to them. You are not obliged to socialize with co-workers outside the office if you don’t want to, nor do you have to take on their personal problems to be a good colleague.
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