Oceanside Direct Discusses How to Become a Networking Mentor Oceanside Direct executives would like to share a little known tip to improving your networking skills: teach someone else how to do it. Becoming a networking mentor will strengthen your own skills. By making yourself available to others to share your knowledge and experience, you may very well be opening yourself up to the most professionally and personally fulfilling relationships of your life. Sometimes mentoring and coaching others puts the focus on the basics – often things that you don’t normally think about – because it comes easy to you. By highlighting these basic skills, you better emphasize them in yourself. Reach out to someone in your contact base who is new to the networking world and offer to help. Realize that the people who most need your mentoring relationship may not be comfortable approaching you, so you will need to offer your time to them. Also realize that even if they need your help, they may not realize it yet, and so may reject your efforts. Don’t take it personally, and move on to someone else who may be more pliable to change. One simple way to becoming a networking mentor is to volunteer at local high schools or community colleges by offering a mentoring relationship to someone who might be hungry for that type of connection. Perhaps you can take your mentee to a networking event and model your skills, taking time out afterward to process what has occurred. Helping someone else to make connections will often be thing that jump starts their careers. As such, mentoring is a great way to invest in someone in your community and a fulfilling way to share your expertise. The post Oceanside Direct Discusses How to Become a Networking Mentor appeared first on Oceanside Direct.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:14:18 +0000
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