Tweet “A New Year resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to one or more lasting personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit” or so is the common definition (eg. Wikipedia). You have very few days left to craft your New Year’s resolution for 2012. Why not having your New Year resolution [...]
Tweet Santa Claus is a great networker and you can learn from him. Don’t stay up on Christmas Eve trying to catch him and asking him for advice. Instead learn from what he does: He genuinely gives without wanting something in return. He smiles when he talks to you. He keeps following up every year. [...]
Tweet Does a huge business card collection automatically give you a super-networker status? Well… not often. At a big trade show last week (EIBTM), I was there to give a keynote on how to improve your return-on-networking. After two days there, I realised that “networking” was one of the most repeated words at the event [...]
Tweet In some cultures, Christmas is the time to go back to your home country (or home town) and visit relatives. If this is your case, make the most from such visits to maintain and nurture your network. The maintenance will be with the contacts in your home country and also with your new contacts [...]
Tweet Do small town dwellers have more diverse networks than city dwellers? One might think that a city offers more opportunities to build (and maintain) a diverse network. However, the opposite is also true. In a city there are more opportunities to meet with people similar to you. A recent study, published by Scientific American, [...]
Tweet Speaking at a TEDx event, at least in my case, had three very distinct parts (as you might have guessed): before, during and after the event. Before the event After overcoming the thrill of an invitation to speak at a TEDx event, you start preparing your speech. In my case, it was a ten [...]
Tweet We only use our computer when we need it. We do not even need to take care of the computer if we are not using it. Our network is a different story. I am not referring to our computer network made of blue cables. I am referring to our human contacts who make our [...]
Tweet Hosting dinners is a great networking opportunity. About 50 years ago the impetus for the creation of the “Hymn of the United Nations” started in the White House’s East Room at a networking dinner organised by Jackie Kennedy. Jackie used to organise many social dinner parties. However, historically, this one was to have great [...]
Tweet Your network is your future. Your future is your network. Mike Southon recently wrote an article in the Financial Times about mature entrepreneurs and the Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise (PRIME). He advises them to “get out and network among their former customers and colleagues – people they have met along the way and [...]
Tweet Do you fit one of the six types who cannot network effectively? In a recent article in Harvard Business Review, R. Cross and R. Thomas explain such six types which they have identified in their research: The formalist, who focuses on the official hierarchy. The overloaded manager, who has too much contact and becomes [...]
