Taking the Work Out of Networking: Your Guide to Making and Keeping Great Connections
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Taking the Work Out of Networking: Your Guide to Making and Keeping Great Connections

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Taking the Work Out of Networking: Your Guide to Making and Keeping Great Connections

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So many practical lessons in networking to match our style.

I practice many of the recommendations already. I can improve even more with Karen’s suggested approaches in networking. It is great to know that I have been going about this process the right way and feel validated.

A**R

Easy Read but not for all business people

The author writes in an easy style to read. She knows the subject because she’s lived it for many years. For me, I was motivated to start networking after reading this but her advice is geared almost entirely to the field she worked in and similar ones.

M**K

Summary: Just do it

Some useful hints. Links and Index take 25% of the book. Really?Summary:Just do it. Do it everyday everywhere with (almost) everybody. Keep in touch with people through all available channels (mostly online). Pester them from time to time with relevant info.

L**T

Everything you know about networking is wrong.* Karen will show you the way

Networking is: 1. giving out your business cards willy nilly at a live event. 2. trying to accumulate the most LinkedIn contacts 3. something you do only when you're looking for a job. 4. A distasteful process. 5. something only extroverts can do well. NONE of the preceding five assertions are true. Wickre describes a gentle, more effective and continuous way to build your network. Some of the members of whom are close to you, but far more have "loose ties," meaning people are not close to you but may be in the position to help in the future. Wickre describes a regular practice of meeting people (in person as much as possible), sending them articles and tweets, or suggesting people your weak ties need to meet, not just in a job context. The principle of preemptive generosity (a.k.a.paying it forward, but in advance) is at play, where you do favors for people in your network in advance of asking anything back. And it's fun to hear people's stories. You're building up karma, or at least goodwill. When you do need something, someone in your network is likely to help. This continuous process requires care and feeding, and a certain amount of time. (not a lot necessarily) This continuous back and forth and building both strong and weak ties, is real networking. The book shows how all of this is more difficult for introverts, but also how they have amazing strengths in getting to know and sizing up people, among other gifts. Even though this book is written for introverts EVERYTHING can be used by extroverts too. I encourage all people who want to improve their professional relationships and the network that springs out of them to buy and share this book with their friends and colleagues.*ok, maybe not everything.

B**H

Just what I needed!

This book was a recommended read called out in Phyl Terry's Never Search Alone, and I am glad for it.This book came into my life at a time I needed it most! I am am introvert and do not enjoy walking into rooms full of people I do not know. I hate walking into rooms full of people I do not know and having to strike up 'get to know you' small talk about myself. It ranks up with going to the mall on a Saturday afternoon for me.Karen's book provides people like me strategies for networking in my comfort zone and managing networking in situations outside of it. It is a book for anyone and everyone but is especially helpful for people like me who are figuring out how to emerge from their pandemic hibernation from in person contact and come out better for it.

M**E

Bad Advice

The sample for this book was inspiring so I went ahead and bought it...and then the book started going downhill. She suggests that when you meet someone networking that you start with a self-deprecating joke. While those sorts of jokes are fine in social situations, it’s fatal in networking when you only have seconds to make a first impression. Why would someone want to do business with a person who immediately puts themselves down?Anyway, I tried to return this book but it’s past the time limit so I’m writing this to save money and time for other networkers.

S**N

We can now all exhale the next time we are told to "network"

This book review is my first; a testament to how much I appreciate this book and the hard work it's author Karen Wickre put into it.My background is in journalism and design research both careers that place a high premium on authentic conversations and redirecting the conversation away from yourself. Networking, as I knew it, was the polar opposite -- sell yourself and keep the conversation focused on you, which made it exhausting for me. I would add that beyond being exhausting, this kind of networking felt a bit outdated like a scene from a bad film about Wall Street in the '80s.Karen Wickre's book "Taking The Work Out of Networking" updates the networking conversation from fake sales pitch to cultivating a meaningful (memorable) conversation. Moreover, what I appreciate is that she not only set this as the goal but then provides the reader with easy tools to achieve it. The book is an easy lift too- the language is engaging and consumable. After, I read it my husband picked it up which again -- never happens. I'm thinking of sending copies to my niece and nephew who are in college and starting their career path. In the book, there are practical tips on how to craft a "social authentic" persona on social media, which I thought they might find helpful.

J**S

Networking for introverts

This is a good book about networking for introverts who really don’t like to network. The author has good tips for both online and in person networking.

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