3 Key Benefits Of Staying Connected With Your Network
Those who reach out to connect with others show leadership, resourcefulness, assertiveness, and influence.
When you proactively reach out to contact others, you’ll feel more confident, more connected, and even more powerful.
It allows for an exchange of value. You can facilitate the exchange by sharing the value map. Learn about others, add value to them, and show them how they can add value back to you if they wish to do so.
Connect to facilidate the exchange of value: learn about others, add value to them, and show them how they can add value back to you if they wish to do so.
Here are 3 important benefits of reaching out to expand and deepen your networks.
1. Faster career growth and access to better opportunities.
70% of people found a job through connections according to Payscale. A famous African proverb says “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Connect and to tap into the brains, souls, and resources that other people have.
Re-connect: tap into the brains, souls, and resources that other people have.
One of the biggest assets from top tier universities or jobs often isn’t the knowledge you acquire. It is the people you gain access to. But you must reach out to leverage those networks. You must keep your connections alive by nurturing those relationships.
Keep your connections alive by nurturing those relationships.
2. More relevant networks.
When you reach out online, you are on the driver’s seat, speaking to whom you are interested in instead of trying to strike luck.
There is a lot of information on Linkedin, social media, and associations that can help you target the right people to build a relationship with. That way, you’ll end up with a network that is more relevant for your career.
3. More confidence.
The best time to connect is when you don’t need a connection. Insecurity happens when you reach out only when you want to ask for something because it feels non-genuine and one-sided.
Get into the habit of reaching out when you don’t need anything and finding ways to add value to others. That way, if you need their help in the future, it won’t feel as awkward to ask for it.
The best time to connect is when you don’t need a connection.
Challenge yourself
Challenge yourself to speak to out-of-touch family, friends, former bosses, mentors, colleagues, school mates, and even strangers in your industry or target company.
I recommend following these 2 guidelines.
- Choose people to reach out to that you haven’t talked to in the last 12 months or strangers.
- Schedule a phone call or zoom call with them, and then have the meeting (instead of texting back and forth or exchanging emails.)
“Succeeding in business is all about making connections.” — Richard Branson
As a first step, here’s how you can get started:
- Brainstorm 5 names of family or friends you haven’t spoken to in more than 12 months.
- Brainstorm 5 names of former work colleagues / boss (or school if you’ve only worked in one place) that you haven’t spoken to in more than 12 months.
Once you start reaching out to more people, you will notice positive changes in the way you feel, in the way you relate to people, and in your ability to get results by tapping into the abundant people resources around you.
If you want to get step-by-step tips for re-connecting with your network, then signup for this 7-Day video-based training and challenge. You can also watch the first challenge video here.
