Rachel Feintzeig
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1,709 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2019
last heard Nov 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Stop Networking, Start Connecting – It Can Boost Your Career · 24 Oct 2024
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Like you can't really connect people unless you know a lot of different kinds of people.
And I heard from experts that a lot of that comes not from going the same old industry happy hour.
Because it's just bringing you deeper into that echo chamber.
And so what you want to do is actually do things that are a little bit more fun where you can naturally connect with all different kinds of people, whether that's doing a community service event or joining a dodgeball league.
You want to form those really genuine connections at that genuine trust.
Then you have this like really wide network to pull from.
If you tap a favor, if you ask someone for something while you're building a relationship, people compared it to like you're already in debt.
Someone told me like the brain has basically a mental accounting of these things.
What you want to do is be helpful first, both because it's the right thing to do and because then it just generates the sense that you are a giving person, a warm person.
People are going to want to help you in turn.
Email is usually a good place to start.
Oftentimes you want to get permission beforehand for both people.
Give them a heads up.
up.
People told me they set it up as two different paragraphs where you're introducing the person, you're explaining why you think they're a perfect fit to work on this pressing project or question that the other person has.
People told me you want the second person that you're introducing to be the one that is less powerful or that has more to gain from the interaction because you're kind of queuing them up to then take the next step.
and loop back to form that meeting.
There's nothing worse than an introduction that kind of just hangs there.
You want there to be a next step.
And I even heard from some master connectors that they will then go back to that person who has more to gain after they've sent the email and be like, the email is out there, like pushing the person to then make sure that they follow up because you want to close the loop and make sure that connection happens.
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