Key to Successful Networking
Clarify your career goals.Develop long-term win-win relationship.Nurture your networks daily.Be actively involved in your community.Meet as many people as you can.Take your business cards everywhere.Collect more business cards than you give out.At a networking event, act like a host or hostess, not a guest.Become an interested person.Develop and use your listening skills.Take people risks.Master the art of small talk.Take yourself lightly.Work smarter, not harder.Take action daily toward your goals.Be your own energy manager.Learn to ask for what you want.Say "thank you."Acknowledge your skills and talents.Becomes an inverse paranoid - decide the world is conspiring for you.Determine your priorities, protect your energy.Networkers are human beings, not human doers.