We all benefit from having networks, but only some of us value these networks and relatively few of us nurture these networks as resources to help us achieve our goals.
Despite experience which shows that more business and jobs are secured through one’s own network than through any other means, why then don’t we all build, value, nurture and use our network? Many of us say they dislike and feel uncomfortable whilst ‘networking’ and either avoid it or are desperate to learn how to do it. Perhaps there is a misconception that there is one correct way for ‘network’. Your network is the group of people who know you well enough to trust be a resource for you as you are for them.
We are usually our best selves when we are in ‘flow’, are we not? Suppose you could discover how to be in the flow whilst connecting with people, naturally, to build a network? Click to Listen if you are interested in networking.
Tell us, what helps you to network effortlessly? Has it always been so or did you learn?