Binding: Hardcover
Description: Uncover a new way to network and build relationships that last! Networking is often considered a necessary evil for all working professionals. With social media platforms like Linkedin Twitter Instagram and Facebook at our disposal reaching potential investors or employers is much easier. Yet these connections often feel transactional agenda - driven and dehumanizing leaving professionals feeling burnt out and stressed out. Instead we should connect on a human level and build authentic relationships beyond securing a new job or a new investor for your next big idea. To build real and meaningful networking contacts we need to go back to basics remembering that technology is a tool and not a means and end. We need to tap into our humanity and learn to be more intentional and authentic. As a serial connector and communications expert Susan Mc Pherson has a lifetime of experience building genuine connections in and out of work. Her methodology is broken down into three simple steps 1. Gather: Instead of waiting for the perfect networking opportunity to come to you think outside the box and create your own opportunity. Host your own dinner party join a local meet - up group or volunteer at your neighborhood food pantry. Anyone from your local barista to a fellow parent at your daughter's elementary school can lead to another connection that you just might need. 2. Ask: Instead of leading with our own rehearsed elevator pitches asking for help ask to help opening the door to share resources experience contacts and perspectives that add diversity to your own vision.3. Do: Turn new connections into meaningful relationships by taking these newly formed relationships deeper. Follow through on the promises you made keep in touch and learn to move past small talk by embracing your vulnerability and having conversations that matter. Woven together with helpful tips and useful advice on making the most out of every step the book draws on the real - life success stories of friends and clients as well as Mc Pherson's own experience as a renowned serial connector. Filled with humor humility and wisdom The Lost Art of Connecting is the handbook we all need to foster personal and professional relationships that blur the lines between work and play and enrich our lives in every way.
Title: The Lost Art Of Connecting: The Gather Ask Do Method For Building Meaningful Business Relationships
Author(s): Ashton Jackie
Publisher: Mcgraw - Hill Education
Barcode: 9781260469882
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/30/2021
Category: Business Communication & Presentation