The document provides five tips for using storytelling in networking: 1) Prepare properly, 2) Evaluate your approach, 3) Follow up, 4) Follow through, 5) Each tip can be supported with a story or metaphor. It also describes how the tips correspond to five colors - black, blue, yellow, red, and green - representing different stages of an networking opportunity.
Story telling: 5 Top Tips of Networking Illustrated
1. Storytelling: Five Top Tips of Networking Illustrated Presented to NDCC Networking Skills Workshop August 9, 2011
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13. Alice from Dallas and The Relentless Networker Alice Dykeman [email_address] 214-528-2991 http://www.dykemanassociates.com Contact Info
14. Alice from Dallas and The Relentless Networker Paul E Maynard [email_address] 817-891-1167 www.paulemaynard.com Contact Info
Editor's Notes
Alice: the set up. Don’t resent “foreigners” or those outside your usual circle. Ask questions, get to know them. Paul: this is about face-to-face marketing/networking
Paul: Why 5 colors? We wanted to remind you of your childhood
Give shape is setting a strategy
Are you a morning person? Bright hours are those who can’t deal with eitehr end of the day. Get out of the office “ Make hay while the Sun shines”
Can I meet you for coffee? Allows taking leave (2) to learn more When you return