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Blog Post: Young Professionals: What Are You netWORKING For?
posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:37 PM
The Young Professional Group GET Phoenix held its inaugural Professional Development Conference last Thursday evening at the Hotel Valley Ho. The Scottsdale event was designed as a workshop on how to build key skills to network more effectively to achieve career success. I was really impressed by the quality of the GET Phoenix workshop and I think it is a very positive sign for continued professional growth here in the Valley. If you missed this valuable event, GET Phoenix will be holding a new 'Professional Development Conference' on a bimonthly basis, with a traditional networking event taking place during the months in between these conferences. All events will be held on the third Thursday of the month, and no doubt at one of our really great locations here in the Valley. If you attended the event, were you inspired to continue networking? How were you made stronger from what you learned? What will you do differently to link with the right contacts and achieve greater career success? These are all very important questions you must sit down and ask yourself. Establishing strong contacts is vital to business and life prosperity, because remember; Everything in life and business is relationships. Proper networking is like any good story really; you must have a beginning, a middle and an end. As long as you have a good rhythm people are going to want to read your story. You must have a plan, an execution, and an outcome. You have to know without a doubt what you want, where/how to find it, and what to do with it once you have obtained it. It is vital that we become extremely proficient in the Art of Networking. I know this simple skill is what separates people who get what they want from those just wishing. I will be launching a series of blogs on the Art of networking I came up with the following analogy when crossing San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge a few weeks ago, so lets roll with it. In my Art of Networking Series we will go in depth on the following steps. We will also have a feature on using Linkedin to reach career success. Here is an outline for the series: Professional Networking is Building a Bridge: Step 1) Putting up the Foundation/Pillars = Knowing Exactly What You Want Step 2) Installing the Roadway and Upper Supports = Making Strong Contacts Step 3) Using the Bridge and Maintaining It = Knowing What to Do once it's Built I invite you all to think about these three things long and hard. Come with your ideas and comments. Lets make this as interactive as possible. Tonight, ask your self: “What am I netWORKING for?” Lets start connecting and make this a better place. Happy Networking! By Steven Gonzales Contact me at steven.blogger@gmail.com ** Mark your calendar for the next GET Phoenix Mixer on Thursday August 20th @ 5:30 PM. Details on event location to come**
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