2nd Years CMC Blog
Friday, November 21, 2008
Sharing Generously
The following tips are from Keith Ferrazzi's book Never Eat Alone. They are good reminders for the November and December holiday breaks.
1.Feed people: There's no better way to be generous than by inviting a friend or colleague who may be alone during the holidays to your Thanksgiving dinner. It is an opportunity to build network relationships.
2. Make introductions: Introduce people from different parts of your life who might benefit from knowing each other. It is an ongoing puzzle, matching up the right people and the right opportunities. Never hoard your relationship equity.
3.Become a knowledge broker: Share information, by blog, by email, by Twitter, over lunch or however else. Focus on sharing information that helps people solve problems, however broadly defined.
4. Tell a story: Sharing your history is always a generous way to give something of yourself to a friend or colleague. Telling a real story about your past - with a beginning, middle, end, and maybe even a Kleenex moment - is even better. They will be happy for the glimpse of what makes you tick.
5. Mentor and get mentored: Perhaps the only thing you can do that is more generous than serving as a caring, consistent mentor to someone is asking someone else to mentor you - and then working your hardest to make them proud.
Don't forget to participate in the "Success With Off-Campus Recruiting" program scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on December 2. Learn how to use LinkedIn more effectively and hear from classmates that navigated a successful off-campus search to land a position.
Have a great holiday.
Best, Karin
1.Feed people: There's no better way to be generous than by inviting a friend or colleague who may be alone during the holidays to your Thanksgiving dinner. It is an opportunity to build network relationships.
2. Make introductions: Introduce people from different parts of your life who might benefit from knowing each other. It is an ongoing puzzle, matching up the right people and the right opportunities. Never hoard your relationship equity.
3.Become a knowledge broker: Share information, by blog, by email, by Twitter, over lunch or however else. Focus on sharing information that helps people solve problems, however broadly defined.
4. Tell a story: Sharing your history is always a generous way to give something of yourself to a friend or colleague. Telling a real story about your past - with a beginning, middle, end, and maybe even a Kleenex moment - is even better. They will be happy for the glimpse of what makes you tick.
5. Mentor and get mentored: Perhaps the only thing you can do that is more generous than serving as a caring, consistent mentor to someone is asking someone else to mentor you - and then working your hardest to make them proud.
Don't forget to participate in the "Success With Off-Campus Recruiting" program scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on December 2. Learn how to use LinkedIn more effectively and hear from classmates that navigated a successful off-campus search to land a position.
Have a great holiday.
Best, Karin
# posted by Karin Ash @ 3:50 PM 