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Build a Network - Even When You Don't Think You Need One
Reframing the process
Most professionals know the value of networking, but due to time constraints, family obligations, or being introverts, they aren't able to build a network.
The 4 strategies for people who have avoided networking in the past, to re-frame the process and enjoy it.
- Understand networking
- Identify trustworthy people
- Recognize the pitfalls of lack of networking
- Identify the vehicle of networking
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Reframing the process
Most professionals know the value of networking, but due to time constraints, family obligations, or being introverts, they aren't able to build a network.
The 4 strategies for people who have avoided networking in the past, to re-frame the process and enjoy it.
- Understand networking
- Identify trustworthy people
- Recognize the pitfalls of lack of networking
- Identify the vehicle of networking
Understand what networking is
Some people see networking as some sort of classless transaction.
They need to re-frame this activity as a way to make interesting friends and acquaintances in the long run.
Identify people you respect
Apart from the networking process, many people who shy away from networking are not trusting the people involved.
The solution is to identify the people you truly respect (maybe by making a list) and build a quality offline network, taking the help of professional networking sites like LinkedIn.
Assess your network
Networking can help us in unexpected ways, like peer recommendations, and this may be unclear to us at first.
One should assess their existing network to gauge its strength and take action where there is an opportunity for improvement.
Innovative strategies
There are countless ways and strategies to meet interesting people professionally.
Apart from hosting dinners or coffee outings, try to apply innovative strategies like interviewing people for your podcast or blog, or riding on some key conferences by scheduling your meetings during that period, leveraging from the hype.
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Purpose of Career Networking
It involves using personal, professional, academic or familial contacts to assist with a job search, achieve career goals, or learn more about your field, or another field you'd like to work in....
Top 7 Networking Tips
- Include the right people: anyone who can assist you with a career move
- Know what your career network can do for you
- Keep in touch - work your network: People are more willing to help when they know who you are
- Give to get - what can you do for your career network
- Keep track of your network:
make sure you know who is who, where they work, and how to get in touch.
- Network online
- Attend networking events.
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Connect With The Right People
Knowing what you want and whom you want to connect with matters.
Using social media tools like LinkedIn is a good start to speed up your initial connection with the people aligned with your g...
The Six Degrees Of Separation
According to the theory of the Six Degrees Of Separation, we all are only a few people away from everyone else.
Embrace your friends' references and contacts to get to know people that can help you in your professional pursuits.
Give Free Talks
If you don't know anyone, a brilliant strategy is to provide free talks and seminars, and in the process build a completely organic list of people who connect with you and know your work.
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Be the last to speak
This way, you'll be able to hear your team’s true thoughts, which you can to use to inform the opinion you yourself deliver at the end of the conversation.
As a leader, if you speak f...
Shut down outside distractions
A key part of being a good listener is showing the speaker that he or she has your undivided attention. Close your laptop and put away your phone.
This gives those speakers the confidence to express themselves fully without feeling that they’re imposing on your time.
Mind your body language
7 percent of a message is conveyed through words. Body language plays a major role in how we communicate and how we listen.
When you’re listening, then, be aware of what your body language is saying to the speaker. Unfold your arms and be open to what this person has to say.
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