Why Networking

The soft skill I plan to research is Networking ability. Networking is not a one direction action, but is alternative. People always say “it’s not about what you know, but who you know”. So networking is important for our future work especially in a business company.

Manage Your Tie of Networking

Networking not only need to create new relationship with people, but also keep the balance between weak tie to strong tie and use the right tie. My professor Michael who teaching Communication in Organization class once talked about “The Spectrum of Relationship” in networking.

Networking Smart

Networking, as I mentioned in the previous blogs, is the active process of building relationship, managing productive relationship and developing by communication. The process embraces everyone your work with, relationship within and between organizational units. Good networking ability is a key…

Useful Practices for Networking

After reading the book of Baker, I also look through some skills to improve networking ability. Here I found Nicolas Cole wrote a handy blog, “7 Best Practices for Networking That Actually Work”. The right skills are the mechanism at the heart of People networking. Thus, people benefits form…

Brave to Connect

Participating in networking and improve this ability are very important. There are plenty of opportunities to networking in our…

Use Social Media

In the previous blogs, I talked about how to network and some practices, but I forget an ultimate important tool: social media…

Communication Skill

In the first two experience, I talked about to connect with people, balance the strong tie and the weak tie during networking. And today I want to talk about communication is also important in networking.