Our fifth assumption is that you will be authentic. You will be you. You are a real person and you are presenting yourself as you are, warts and all.
This of course requires you to find out who you really are. If you don't know, that's okay. Nobody has everything figured out. Everybody has unresolved issues. Even me, though even I find that hard to believe.
It's just that the you you present has to flow from the you that you are. What do you value? Who do you want to be? Who is the who that you are.
You can't be a successful connector if you approach networking events as platforms from which to spew forth all what you want to spew forth. You have to go there to communicate credibility, respect, and authenticity.
It doesn't mean you can't change. All of us grow and change as our lives move along. If we didn't we wouldn't be human. going to networking events is not networking.
How do you find this out? Go through some values clarification exercise. Go to my entrepreneur blog, referenced below, and look up what I've written on Todd Duncan.
I'll reproduce it here next time.
I'm trying to improve people's connecting. Is this helpful?
Connecting is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my entrepreneurial strategy. For my ideas on entrepreneurship go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
It makes Your Stop for Real Estate , my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
It powers my approach to writing. See www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.
It fuels my publishing outlet, By and for Writers. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.For other ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
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