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1. Learning Objectives Networking – What is it?
2. Elements of Networking
3. Physical and Virtual Networking
4. Networking with Confidence
5. Career Networking Evaluating Your Networks
3. At the completion of this training program, you will be able to:
• Define the what and why of networking
• Identify different types of networking
• Apply techniques for networking with confidence
• Use networking to promote career development, both inside and outside
your organization
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Learning Objectives
4. Networking – What is it?
and what does it
mean to
YOU?
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5. • It’s not superficial connections and lunching.
• It’s not about handing out business cards.
• It’s not about asking for a job.
• It’s not about short term payback.
• It’s not about hanging with your friends and calling it networking.
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What Networking is NOT:
6. • network / nétwerk n. & v. a
Group of people who exchange information, contacts, and
experience for professional or social purposes.
(The Oxford Dictionary)
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Networking: What is it?
8. • Networking is a Two-Way Street
• Sharing information
• Sharing contacts
• Introducing people
• Doing favors
• Asking for help
• Acknowledging support
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What is Networking?
10. You already “know” 10,000 people.
• Each of us has about 500 contacts
• How well you know them, that’s another
issue.
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Elements of Networking
11. People with direct influence on your job
• Your boss
• Your subordinates
• HR
• Accounting
• Your pals
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Your Work Network
12. "Doing business without advertising is like
winking at a girl in the dark.
(Steuart Henderson Britt)
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14. • School Alumni
• Professional organizations:
HR, Accountancy
• Conferences even set aside
time for networking.
• Speed networking
• BNI – Business Networks
International
• Theosophical Society
• Chambers of Commerce
•TRG
•Burn Society of Friday Club and Yoga
•Rotary Club
•YPO
•Art of Living
•Breakfast Club
•DIYA
•21st Century Business Forum
•Synergy Trainers forum
•Distinguished Secretaries Society of
Pakistan
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Physical Networking
16. • Set your networking goal. Why are you going to this event?
• to learn something new
• gather business intelligence
• for social reasons
• to meet a specific person or two new people.
• Dress Code
• Business Cards
• Be ready to answer the question: So, what do you do?
• Your 30 Second Self Introduction: OM3
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Networking: With Confidence
17. DURING
• First Impressions
• Approach NEW people
• It’s Not What You Say, It’s What You Ask!
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Networking: With Confidence
18. • First 10 Seconds = 7 encounters
• Stand tall
• Smile Confidently
• 55% Body Language
• Impressions formed by 10 elements:
Verbal Nonverbal
Tone Clothing
Choice of Words Posture
Attitude Facial Expressions
Rate Gestures
Enunciation Hair
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First Impressions
19. DURING
• First Impressions
• Approach NEW people
• It’s Not What You Say, It’s What You Ask!
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Networking: With Confidence
20. The 4 “E’s”
• Establish…………….. eye contact and smile
• Extend…………………Your hand
• Engage………………… in conversation
• Exchange…………….. business cards
(if appropriate)
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21. • Get hung up with one conversation – move around…
• Stay in your comfort zone and only talk to people just like you!
• Make a promise you can’t or won’t keep!
• Be a wallflower – show initiative and make the first move…
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Networking Don’ts
22. • Safe Topics:
– Public information – read the newspapers
– Travel
– Business
• Avoid:
– Politics
– Religion
– personal questions, money, health
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Risk Free Conversations
23. • Use first and last names
• Introduce junior person to senior person. Senior = position or
age, not gender.
• Forget someone’s name? Don’t fake it, admit it.
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Making Introductions
24. AFTER
• It’s an investment; get ROI
• Effort
• Time
• Money
• Calendarize follow-up within 48 hours
• Email or handwritten note
• Review
• Add to database
• Follow-up, give something away
• Maintenance, 2x a year
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Networking: With Confidence
25. • Tools
• Computer Databases
• Hand-Held Organizers
• Business Card File
• Index Cards
• What to Record?
• Name
• Address
• Phone Number
• What school & major
• Who they work for
• Who introduced you
• Key Conversations
The key is to use any
system that will keep
you organized and
effective in building and
developing your
network!
Tip – Always bring
something to put
business cards in
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Organize Your Network
26. • Follow-Up Immediately – Don’t Wait!
• Send Thank You Notes/Letters
• Send Holiday Cards
• Remember and Acknowledge Birthdays, Anniversaries and Special Occasions
• Update Contacts when important events happen in your Life
• Keep your contact information up to date. Inform others of when you move or change
phone numbers.
• If involved in any type of group, attend meetings regularly
• Find out what YOU can do to help those in your network
YOU MUST MAKE THE EFFORT!!!
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Maintain Your Network
27. Tom Peters writes
“We are CEO’s of our own companies: Me Inc”
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Career Networking
28. Your brand is a perception or
emotion, maintained by somebody other than
you, that describes the total experience of
having a relationship with you.
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Know your Brand!
29. • Up, with your bosses...
• Down, with your subordinates...
• Laterally, with peers inside and outside the
company.
In all three directions, effective networking
means that you identify key relationships, build
mutual understanding and act in ways that
benefit both sides.
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360 Degree Networking
30. • Why evaluate?
• Meeting goals
• Not meeting goals
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Evaluating your Network
31. “Do not lie in a ditch and say God help
me. Use the lawful tools He hath sent
thee.”
- English Proverb
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32. It’s not whether you are looking for new
opportunities or not, you should ALWAYS be
looking for new opportunities.
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33. “If you want to be prosperous for a year, grow grain.
If you want to be prosperous for ten years, grow trees.
If you want to be prosperous for a lifetime, grow people”
- Proverb
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34. "Networking is not a numbers game.
The idea is not to see how many people you can
meet; the idea is to compile a list of people you can
count on. "
- Harvey Mackay
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