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Networking can feel like the professional equivalent of speed dating. And, like speed dating, you don't just want to make a good impression — you want to make a lasting one. So, how can you present yourself well and make meaningful connections when it feels like you're making small talk with people who are only half-listening?

The first step is to reframe your concept of networking. At your next event, remind yourself that it's less about empty chit-chat and more about making connections.

How do you make those?

By forgetting everything you thought you knew about networking small talk and, instead, tapping into the science of good conversation! Here are six strategies for being the most popular person to talk to at your next networking event.

Via The Learning Factor

If you haven't eaten dinner with your family in the past week, haven't taken a day off in over a year, and feel like you still don't have enough time to finish your work, you're doing something wrong.

 

Ivan Misner, founder and chairman of global networking organization BNI, knows how unbalanced life is while running your own business.

 

Misner has written 20 books, runs BNI offices across the world from North America to Asia, and has a wife and kids. If you ask him, he'll tell you he doesn't live a balanced life. He'll also tell you that you'll never achieve balance either. But, that doesn't mean you can't lead a healthy life.

 

"Do you want to know the secret to balance? Forget about balance, you'll never have it," Misner told me recently. "You cannot have balance as an entrepreneur, but you can create harmony."

Via The Learning Factor