This is Laura Lee Rose, a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. In my GoTo Academy: Soft Skill Tools for the GoTo Professional continuous online coaching series, I go into office etiquette on various real-world IT topics in detail.
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Most professionals have a LinkedIn.com account and profile. They accept requests from friends, coworkers and family members that they already know. Then they stop there.
- Is your social media connections assisting you in your professional and career goals?
- Are you using your social media contacts smartly?
- Are you connecting only with people you already know instead of the people that can help
- you in your development?
We typically associate with folks of the same socioeconomic circles. Studies show that your salary and income are typically within 20% of the group of people you regularly hang around with. So, if you want to jump to a different salary or professional level, we may need to change who we hang around with. If you want to leap to the next professional rung, we may want to find ways to network with people that are of that next desired level. In other words, surround ourselves with the success we want to achieve.
We can use our social networking profiles to do this.
For a quick review of the steps, watch the video and purchase the Leveraging Links Zipinar Ebook.
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Make a quarterly goal of increasing your networking circle by 10% in the right direction.
Other things to consider:
1) Invite the authors of your favorite technical journal articles to your LinkedIn.com network
2) Socialize at the cafeteria and create intellectual discussion groups. Add them to your LinkedIn.com network
3) Conduct Brown Bag Lunch series on important topics to your industry. Offer to send the presentation and whitepaper to those that connect with your on LinkedIn.com
4) Work on white-papers with your manager on items that can be shared and published. Invite your readers to link with you on LinkedIn.com
5) Select a side-hobby and invite those folks to your linkedin.com network.
Try it and let me know what you think.