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Make your contacts count : networking know-how for business and career success /

The book that makes networking an art, not an accident, now completely revised and expanded!

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baber, Anne, 1938-
Otros Autores: Waymon, Lynne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : AMACOM, [2007]
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface. Get ready for state-of-the-art networking
  • The time is right
  • Are you ready?
  • The contacts count networking system
  • part I. Survey your skills and mindset
  • Chapter 1
  • Assess your skills
  • Instructions
  • Observing the "netiquette"
  • Assessing your comfort level
  • Being strategic
  • Meeting people
  • Using networking organizations
  • Making the most of events
  • Achieving bottom-line results
  • Following through
  • Check your results
  • Next steps
  • Chapter 2
  • Change your mindset
  • Come in from the cold
  • The ten biggest misconceptions about networking
  • Ten turnoffs in the language of networking
  • You say you're shy?
  • Catch your critic
  • Convert your critic into your coach
  • Believe the best about yourself and others
  • Bonus : know your style
  • Part II. Set your strategy
  • Chapter 3
  • Teach trust
  • Move from taking to trusting
  • Teach that you can be trusted
  • The trust matrix
  • Avoid manipulation
  • Chapter 4
  • Develop your relationships
  • Move through the six stages
  • The next move is up to you
  • Rate your relationships
  • Have questions about the A's?
  • Chapter 5
  • Go with your goals
  • Size your project to match your goal
  • Check out your choices
  • Assess your network
  • Plan your strategic positioning project
  • Bonus : get off to a good start
  • Part III. Sharpen your skills
  • Chapter 6
  • Know the "netiquette"
  • Enter enthusiastically
  • Brighten up your body language
  • ENGAGE your partner
  • Tune up your tone of voice
  • Consider closeness
  • Watch what you put in your mouth
  • Treat touching as taboo
  • Forego flirting
  • Pay your way
  • Exchange business cards effectively
  • Join groups comfortably
  • Bonus : ten tips on the nuances of "netiquette"
  • Chapter 7
  • Avoid the top twenty turn-offs
  • Chapter 8
  • "Who are you?"
  • Why remembering names is hard
  • Learn someone's name
  • Teach your name
  • Try these twenty tips
  • Break up bunches of introductions
  • Deal skillfully with forgotten names
  • Give yourself a tagline
  • Yes, mind your manners
  • The introduction rule : FIRST IS FOREMOST
  • Chapter 9
  • "What do you do?"
  • Why most answers bomb
  • Make the right things happen
  • Give it your BEST
  • Be interesting
  • Try these tips
  • Read these frequently asked questions
  • Chapter 10
  • "What are we going to talk about?"
  • Listen for your cue
  • Use success stories to tell what's new
  • Figure out your agenda
  • Begin with the right side
  • What do you have to give?
  • What do you want to get?
  • Give and get with ease
  • Practice agenda-making
  • Go Public with your agenda
  • Exchange something
  • Chapter 11
  • Make conversation flow
  • Listen generously
  • Use your EARS
  • How listening generously pays off
  • Be seriously curious
  • Tell success stories
  • Construct your story carefully
  • Sample these stories
  • People want to know ...
  • Chapte 12
  • End with the future in mind
  • Prepare for the next time
  • Listen for the bell
  • Eight ways to leave
  • A ritual for leave-taking
  • Do you have questions?
  • Chapter 13
  • Follow through
  • Focus on follow through
  • Figure out your reasons to reconnect
  • Face your fears
  • Fill in the blanks on your calendar
  • The five goals of follow through
  • Freshen up your relationships
  • Find the way
  • Bonus : five more ingenious ways to fit in follow through
  • Part IV. Select your settings
  • Chapter 14
  • Network at work
  • Got the right word?
  • Bank on the benefits
  • Ten ways to get on board quickly
  • Assess your corporate culture
  • How strong is your inside network?
  • Map out a plan
  • Pair up with peers
  • Avoid erroneous assumptions
  • Overcome the barriers
  • Bonus : after organizational earthquakes, rebuild your network
  • Chapter 15
  • Make it rain clients
  • What people think
  • Professionalize your practice development
  • Make conversations count
  • What's one conversation worth?
  • Create constellations
  • Cross-sell your clients
  • Make asking for referrals a ritual
  • Chapter 16
  • (Net)work from home
  • Tune in to the trends
  • Conquer the challenges
  • Link up your life and your livelihood
  • Bonus : create a constellation
  • Chapter 17
  • Make the most of your memberships
  • Size your network to fit your needs
  • Link up one-on-one
  • Access anybody
  • Join groups
  • Choose groups strategically
  • Understand the hierarchy
  • Know the group before you join
  • Orchestrate who knows you
  • The twelve biggest mistakes members make
  • Jump right in
  • Chapter 18
  • Rev up referral groups
  • See how they run
  • Shop around
  • Check it out
  • Don't just join, join in
  • Start small
  • Spice up the meetings
  • Start your own
  • Chapter 19
  • Connect at conventions
  • Expand your expectations
  • Get ready, get set : before you go
  • Show up at the conference
  • Follow up after you get home
  • Later on, get re-inspired
  • Bonus : plan meetings that get people talking
  • Chapter 20
  • Jump-start your job hunt
  • Use the contacts count networking system
  • Twenty-five tactics to find a job fast
  • Bonus : manage your strategy support group
  • Index.