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Chloe Xu, Director, Australia
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🔥 NEW 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 research often wor (...) Read more? Sign up for free
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Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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Professional Networking and Learning at 12manage
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Carlos Cardenas, HR Consultant, Peru
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Social Networks Threaten our Concentration and Focus for Complex Tasks
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Tarja Laila Marita Raman, Partner, Finland
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Concentration is Demanding
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Gregory Waddell, Teacher, United States
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Create a Professional Interest Map
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Norman Dragt, Netherlands
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Useful Networking: Is There Such a Thing?
As the four points state, networking should be abo (...)
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Norman Dragt, Netherlands
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Learning to Network
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Gandhi Heryanto, Management Consultant, Indonesia
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Networking Can Make Some Feel 'Dirty’
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Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa
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Useful Professional Networking
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Naresh Sinha, Coach, India
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Conditions for Successful Networking
You may want to network with people, but start wit (...)
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srinivas, Lecturer, India
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Networking and Happiness
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Anonymous
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Definition of Professional Networking
I found this definition of networking and professi (...)
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Anonymous
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Reasons for Professional Networking
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Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
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Networking is Marketing not Selling
Attending a local networking group, I discovered i (...)
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Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa
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Networking is Marketing not Selling
You are spot on Maurice. I recently posted in Link (...)
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Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
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Foundation of Professional Networking
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Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa
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Professional Networking with Care for Others
@Maurice Hogarth: I love your NET metaphor. Withou (...)
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Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom
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Working the Net Connections
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Graham Williams, Management Consultant, South Africa
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Intent and Attitude towards Professional Networking
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Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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Success Factors of Professional Networking
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