This week's micro-learning subject is the second of a nine-part series from the book "How to Be a Star at Work: 9 Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed" by Robert E. Kelley.
The second strategy is NETWORKING. But not just any networking, this is how star performers uniquely manage their professional networking practice to reap great rewards.
Networking, more than another skill in this series, can have dramatic impact on the speed, quality, and quantity of your outputs.
Star performers:
- View network knowledge as a privilege that must be earned, and traded, not as a public resource.
- Carefully cultivate network participants using connection and value as necessary groundwork.
- Include small courtesies and are the model of politeness when dealing with network sources.
- Act as solid vouchers and reference pointers, sharing network connections.
- Prepare well, studying the applicable subject matter, summarizing...