Tweet “Jordi, why do you use internet banking? You are a great networker, you should go to the bank,” a good friend told me to my surprise… We are talking about a small town (population 75,000). He likes going into the bank. He can talk to the branch director and get the latest business news. [...]
Tweet In the previous post we saw the benefits of moving around the corporation during your first days in the job. Be careful not to be perceived as a “wanderer”. You are not casually walking around the corporation or killing time. You have a very specific and work-related objective (better understanding the corporation). The following [...]
Tweet Today is your first day in the new job at a big corporation. Congratulations! You should go to other departments to bump into new people. You will start building valuable bridges across the corporation that will help your career advancement. Armed with a big smile and your self-introduction you should explore the corporation by [...]
Tweet Last week I came across an excellent Manifesto on networking: “The care and feeding of your network” (by Bob Allard and Richard Banfield). Here are some bullet points showing what I learnt from it: Care for others’ success. “You can’t fake caring.” You will not be a good networker until you find a way [...]
