Networking Know-How

Daily Tips for moving careers forward

from Patti Hunt Dirlam 

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These daily net-working tips and weekly blog 
share can-do tools
and strategies to take networking to the next level. If you know someone next door or across the country who'd benefit from them, please forward!    
  
  

Deal with them (your feelings)


Yesterday's daily was about acknowledging how you feel about networking.  Today's tip is about how you respond to these feelings. Our sense of self is the radar that directs our assumptions, attitude and approach towards networking when it comes to how we see small talk (natural part of any conversation vs. a waste of time), how we meet new contacts (as people to get to know, vs. as a title to "score"), or how we reach out for help (succinctly and clearly explaining our need for assistance, vs. rambling and vague).  Putting your attention on the positive aspects of networking will change everything when it comes to overcoming fears and negative feelings.

Want to learn more? Read my weekend blog.

 

Patti Dirlam
Hunt Dirlam Associates 

© 2013 Patricia Hunt Dirlam