Top 10 Networking Tips
Featured Article & Career Coach: Kim Batson
Without a doubt, the key to successful executive networking begins with careful preparation. Here are my top 10 tips:
1) Develop an action plan
View the creation of a networking plan as you would any executive or business plan. Know your goals and the outcome you desire before you start and stay focused. Decide what you will do and when you will do it. Then execute your plan systematically. Determine to do at least one thing every day to touch your network.
2) Prepare your self-marketing message
Ask yourself: "How do I want to be perceived? How am I perceived at work? What message is consistent with my strengths and my unique contribution in the marketplace? What information will be relevant and important?" Have your sixty-second sound bite and your two-minute self-marketing message prepared, smooth and concise. A coach and a personal brand strategist can help you put together and articulate a powerful and unique value proposition.
3) Gather valuable information
Research using search engines, an online company information database, the library, business journals, news articles, and informational interviewing to determine which companies you are interested in. Then find out all the information on them that you can, including products/services, market position, competition, industry trends, mergers and acquisitions, customer satisfaction (or lack of), financial stability, and current company challenges.
4) Think connectivity beyond the norm
Focus on connecting with individuals and executives that are not only working for, but are vendors of, clients of, or distribution partners of your target company, or who are in some other way connected. They don't have to work there to be a key connection for you. [read more...]
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Without a doubt, the key to successful executive networking begins with careful preparation. Here are my top 10 tips:
1) Develop an action plan
View the creation of a networking plan as you would any executive or business plan. Know your goals and the outcome you desire before you start and stay focused. Decide what you will do and when you will do it. Then execute your plan systematically. Determine to do at least one thing every day to touch your network.
2) Prepare your self-marketing message
Ask yourself: "How do I want to be perceived? How am I perceived at work? What message is consistent with my strengths and my unique contribution in the marketplace? What information will be relevant and important?" Have your sixty-second sound bite and your two-minute self-marketing message prepared, smooth and concise. A coach and a personal brand strategist can help you put together and articulate a powerful and unique value proposition.
3) Gather valuable information
Research using search engines, an online company information database, the library, business journals, news articles, and informational interviewing to determine which companies you are interested in. Then find out all the information on them that you can, including products/services, market position, competition, industry trends, mergers and acquisitions, customer satisfaction (or lack of), financial stability, and current company challenges.
4) Think connectivity beyond the norm
Focus on connecting with individuals and executives that are not only working for, but are vendors of, clients of, or distribution partners of your target company, or who are in some other way connected. They don't have to work there to be a key connection for you. [read more...]
Certified Career Coaches.com serves to educate, inform, and help individuals move their career forward and put their career plans into action. We've eliminated need to spend countless hours searching the web for credentialed career professionals.
Search our database to find a career coach 24/7. It’s strategically designed to search by career coaching specialty, service location, and/or consultation preference. Each search result provides names of certified coaches, contact info, business names, profiles and highlights, and website links. You can also email the coaches directly via posted articles to ask questions.
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