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Useful Professional Networking???
Chloe Xu, Australia, Premium Member
Despite the fact that social networking is all around, many business people find networking activities distasteful and avoid them even if it can contribute to job and business opportunities, broader and deeper knowledge, and improved capacity of innovation and advancement. Here are some tips to help you overcome an aversion to professional networking:
- FOCUS ON LEARNING. Focus on the positive growth, advancement, and accomplishments that networking can bring and the activities will begin to seem much more worthwhile.
- IDENTIFY COMMON INTERESTS. Social psychological studies have proved that when people work together on tasks that require one another’s contribution, they are able to establish the most long-term and collaborative connections. So it is useful to think about how your interests and goals align with those who you meet in networking and how that can help you build meaningful working relations. Common interest identified through serious ...
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Create a Professional Interest Map
Gregory Waddell, Teacher, United States, Member Something I did recently that helped was to create a map of my professional interests. I used SimpleMind, a mind-mapping software, of which the...
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Useful Networking: Is There Such a Thing?
Norman Dragt, Netherlands, Member As the four points state, networking should be about bringing something to the network, but also you should be able to take something fr...
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Learning to Network
Norman Dragt, Netherlands, Member A real problem for most people in (social) networking might be remembering what happened to them and discovering the important contacts and informatio...
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