Having just come off a week at a trade association event, we thought it fitting to discuss the ever-important subject of networking.<\/p>\n
If you ask anyone about networking these days, they\u2019ll give you their opinion. Universally people see the need and purpose for networking but not everyone sees it the same way.\u00a0 In fact, there are at least 3 different types of networking and each has a different purpose.<\/p>\n
The most successful use all three.<\/strong><\/p>\n The truth regarding networking is that highly successful people know how to use all three.\u00a0 They move from one to another seamlessly and with relative ease. But, they most likely did not start out that way. Chances are that these highly successful people started out preferring one of the three types; even to the point of being biased against the other types.<\/p>\n We all need to be aware of our biases with respect to these networking types and then begin to embrace the other types as being valuable. Some will say, I can see how the other types can be useful, but they just seem to be wrong for me (or don\u2019t feel right). If you want to be truly successful, embracing all three can increase your probability of success, personal development, and growth.<\/p>\n Practice steps for the week:<\/strong><\/p>\n Step One:<\/strong>\u00a0 What kind of networker are you?\u00a0 Identify which type is your preference.<\/p>\n Step Two:<\/strong>\u00a0 Once you have identified what your natural bias is, identify the other area(s) that you need to add to your networking toolbox.<\/p>\n Step Three:\u00a0 <\/strong>Determine where and when you will start to incorporate the networking areas and the outcome you are looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having just come off a week at a trade association event, we thought it fitting to discuss the ever-important subject of networking. If you ask anyone about networking these days, they\u2019ll give you their opinion. Universally people see the need and purpose for networking but not everyone sees it the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturebychoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}