NETWORLDING

Your Values

Values are the principles that guide your actions on a daily basis. Becoming strongly aware of your values and creating goals that reflect those values builds a foundation for success. Living your personal and work lives according to those values creates a feeling of authenticity in the way you present yourself. Authenticity inspires trust and confidence and leads to credibility.

Values clarification is both the first and final step in laying that foundation for success. If you understand what is important to you and what drives you, you can align your work to your values and increase your level of passion and satisfaction in your life and work.

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Networlding Step Number 7

Re-Evaluate Your Network.
You're reaching for mastery and with that this step comes up again and again.

Carol knows that she is in an evolutionary stage of Networlding. Her primary circle will change as she transitions as her abilities and needs change. By re-evaluating her Networld every six months or so, Carol will make sure she is getting the support she needs as well as offering the support people in her primary circle need.

Networlding Step Number 6

Co-Create Opportunities
Your Primary Circle Partners are there for you and you for them. This step is especially relevant for business owners who want to co-present at events or co-create through alliances and other partnering venues.

Just as many opportunities have been created for Carol by her professional friends, Carol will create and assist in finding opportunities and good job matches for people in her circle. When Carol starts her own psychology practice she will require support from her circle but at the same time she will be creating opportunities for them as well.

Networlding Step Number 5

Grow and Nurture Relationships

This step helps those Networlding maintain and continuously leverage their networks. One strategy in this step is to never leave a meeting with a primary circle partner without setting up another one. This step is one you should revisit again and again to achieve transformational opportunities.

Weekly phone calls and occasional meetings ensure that Carol is staying connected with her primary circle. Depending on her network and making a commitment to keeping current with friends strengthen her bond with her network. In fact the level of support Carol feels has morphed business relationships into professional friendships. The primary circle has made the world of business more intimate.

Networlding Step Number 4

Create Exchanging Relationships

Here, you'll find seven different types or levels of support you can offer and request. Your optimum goal is to create vibrant exchanges where both parties involved exchange in ways that are powerful, directive, accelerative and dramatically more effectively than traditional networking offers.

Here, Carol makes sure that her relationships are mutually beneficial. She provides support to everyone in her circle; sometimes by offering advice, providing knowledge or sometimes by simply listening. Since Carol is supported on all seven levels by the people in her primary circle she is more energized to reciprocate support. She finds herself able to create ongoing exchanges that hold more and more potential with goals achieve faster as she and her partners now know how to promote one another much more effectively.

Networlding Step Number 3

Decide Who Else Might Be Included In Your Circle of Ten

The highest number you want to get to with your Primary Circle is ten. This is because in order to leverage transformation opportunities or any level of support from your network, you need the few first, with whom you can partner to realize the many opportunities. This concept seems counter intuitive, but if you really look at traditional networking, it's only a numbers game at the front end because most people do it so unconsciously. When you make good networking or Networlding more conscious.

This means that you will focus strongly on the quality of those with whom you put in the circle that you literally take your networking and relationship building skills to the next level. At this level you have people who will give you such support (and you them) that you find yourself with opportunities that are "possibility expansive" versus limiting which is what happens with traditional networking.

In defining her larger circle of ten, Carol was better able to define her relationship within her primary circle and outside circles (secondary and tertiary) as well. To have genuinely beneficial relationships with people Carol had to focus her attention towards people in her life who were her closest support network. Unlike baseline networking, Carol was not concerned about how many connections she could develop, but instead she spent her time nurturing her connections. Since the relationships she formed were quality friendships based on mutual support, Carol’s circle provided her with the Networlding Seven Levels of Support (See Step #4).

Networlding Step Number 2

Decide Who Is Currently In Your Primary Circle.

Pick the current people you know--up to five, whom you think would have similar or complementary values. Then, set up times to meet these people. If they are unavailable for the longer term, put them into what we call your "Secondary Circle" where you can connect with them, perhaps, every three months.

Carol had an informal primary circle before she became involved with Networlding. However, when she decided to leave her job to attend graduate school she felt little support from her colleagues or her boss. Additionally, many of those she had in her professional network prior to her transition did not share her values nor did they understand why a successful woman would want to return to school later in life.

Carol decided to develop a new primary circle. To do this, she surrounded herself with friends and colleagues who shared her values. Her new primary circle included personal friends who had also experienced recent career changes and newly made friends who were her grad school peers. Carol was able to find the Networlding Seven Levels of Support (see Step #4) in her personal friends, her peers and her professors. Carol is fortunate enough to see many of these friends daily but she keeps in contact at least weekly with everyone in her primary circle.

Networlding Step Number 1

What does it mean to have a system for networking? Melissa has created a method to change random one-shot chances of networking into mutually beneficial and consistently productive Networlding. There are seven steps in total that once mastered will allow you to be an effortless Networlder. The steps will be presented individually because each step must be completed before moving onto the next. Take time with each step and make sure the your responses and truthful and valuable for you.
STEP NUMBER 1:
Create Your Values Foundation.
We all have values, but what are your top four and, if you can, what are they in level of priority?

Carol had been what we call in Networlding "baseline networking" for years. She was at the top of her game working as a director of HR business development. However, the long hours and an intense travel schedule left Carol feeling that her personal life lacked balance. From layoffs and career changes to being sought out for competitive executive positions, Carol had been through all of the ups and downs of corporate life.

As she began thinking about what she wanted her future to look like she thought more about her childhood dream of being a physiologist. Carol appreciated valued-based business and aspired to start an individual psychology practice of her own.

With these goals in mind Carol took the first step in Networlding and identified her top four values:

• Spirituality
• Connection
• Making a difference
• Achievement

With these values in mind and the support of Melissa and the Networlding community, Carol decided to leave her six-figure salary and return to graduate school. By understanding her values Carol will not loose sight of them through her process. With her values in mind she is more apt to meet others with similar values and build a network of people around her that will help maintain these values. She will also vocalize her values more often and make requests to be introduced to people who hold similar and complimentary values.