Podcast 32: Becoming a Networking Ninja by Relying on Your Soft Skills, Part 1

Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham explain how to become more effective as a networker, what soft skills you should be applying and how you can overcome your fears and reluctance to make connections that can enhance your career.

LinkedIn.com in 2016 found that 85% of all jobs come from networking. Therefore, our ability to be successful at formal and informal networking can play a huge role in our career enhancement and opportunities.

Among the topics they discuss are:

• How to approach networking
• Networking for introverts or reluctant networkers
• Negotiating your way through formal networking events
• Ways to win at informal networking events
• Networking as a means of building trust, which can may lead to business
• What your network can do for you and others in your network
• How networking can help you better understand your customers
• Taking advantage of opportunities that come through networking
• Getting ready to be successful at networking
• The soft skills that underpin successful networking
• Why “I can help you” won’t work
• The wingman approach to networking
• Six things help you to gain trust in seconds

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Next week

We will dig deeper into becoming a Networking Ninja by playing through some typical scenarios that face people who are networking like how to end a discussion without upsetting anyone.

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