Keeping your relationships alive is like spinning plates and takes 60 seconds.
Posted: April 7, 2011 Filed under: Building the catapult (Skills, Experience, Comportment), Tensioning the lever (gaining influence) | Tags: career, jobs, networking, success 2 Comments »
Every day I am delighted by the generosity of people in my network – Every day my inbox delivers up little parcels of appreciation that help strengthen friendships and create new bonds. You see, almost without fail, each day I receive articles and links that people think that I will find helpful with my current endeavors. When I receive a good link or article a few things happen:
1) I feel a sense of goodwill for the sender
2) I attribute intellect to the sender based on the value of the article to me
3) I feel that I owe this person something back – They have made an emotional deposit from which they can draw-down in the future.
Think about your relationships like plates spinning on a pole – When you haven’t touched base with someone for a while it is like the plate slowing down… Unless you give it a spin the plate crashes down – Relationship dies.
Recommendation:
When you haven’t touched based with someone for a while, find an article that will be of interest professionally or personally and send them a note that has a format similar to this:
“Hi [Name],
I saw this [article/link] and thought it would be of interest to you because [why].
I hope that you find it useful.”
If you want to be a Jedi master at this stuff, then sign-up for the Corporate Catapult Beta because we will be giving you a tool that really helps you keep many more plates spinning.
Another great post about corporate relationship building! How do you sign up for the Corporate Catapult Beta?
Thanks Sarhn – Just go to http://www.corporatecatapult.com and click the TRY NOW link (We are changing the ‘Alpha’ reference shortly)… Clicking through will still get you in the beta program!