THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

The internet has brought networking to a whole new level.  There are also several other avenues to project yourself and make the right connections.  With jobs a scarce commodity positions and stiff competition for desirable positions, its best to polish those shoes, practice that handshake and start costing your net wider through networking.

            Indeed networking has become the order of the day at conferences and forums where organisers pencil in networking sessions.  But in reality, many of us are gregarious wallflowers at social functions, preferring instead to stick to people we know.  Fortunate for the tongue-tied, the internet has changed the rules of engagement.  Even though business events may still be a golden opportunity to press the flesh and meet the right contacts, there are now other ways to meet and connect on professional level.

10 TIPS ON SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT
1.	Socialise	·         Breakout of your shell ·         Get talking to people ·         Get to know the person next to you
2.	Start with friends and family	·         List down names of friends and family, acquaintance, neighbours and people around you. ·         Approach them and connect.
3.	Volunteer	·         Look outside your profession ·         Reach out to the community ·         Find a cause you are passionate about ·         Offer your expertise to help organisation reach its goal.
4.	Keep in touch	·         When meeting someone new, -       Write details on their business card to remind yourself of where and when you were introduced -       Drop them an email. ·         Keep in touch regularly
5.	Be a resource person for others.	·         Offer help and ideas or suggest leads to others ·         Be a key reference points for others
6.	Take up membership	·         You’ll get to know key people within the industry ·         Able to enhance skills through many professional event organised ·         Start by attending alumni gathering and start remaining contacts.
7.	Share information	·         Offer to write article or be a guest speaker or expert area.
8.	Go back to school	·         Take up course in your professional field ·         Classmate can be future referees.
9.	Get online	·         Join online forums ·         Participate actively ·         Caution: do not be overly enthusiastic
10.	Socialise online	·         Some of them can make excellent networking. ·         Use platforms to introduce yourself and your qualification. ·         Caution                - be mindful of projecting                              a Professional image -   Keep your personnel image information in a separate account

Shared from article in

Accountant Today

Management & Business

September 2009

25 keys to success in business and life

SHARED FROM:

     THE BUSINESS OF INNOVATION

     BY MAJELLA GOMES

     ACCOUNTANTS TODAY, MAY/JUNE 2014

 

Innovation and being different will be the keys to success in business and life:

1.  Innovation and willingness to be different is the glue that ties team together

2.  Research well

3.  Good design is not enough, have a sense of purpose

4.  Ideas comes from places which ae unexpected and it doesn’t always come from the experts

5.  Don’t be a lone ranger; you need other people

6.  Learn from success, criticism and failure

7.  Businesses are built on values

8.  Need strong leadership to make things happen

9.  Need to understand the different roles

10.Need to know that each role comes with problems to the situation

11.Team need to be flexible and adaptable, and be able to change very quickly

12.Team members need to be able to listen to each other and work together

13.Customers are concern about what they paid for

14.Leaders have to think in advance and give space to others to perform

15.Team have to listen to each other and work together to achieve optimum performance

16.Harmony never comes from harmony.  Harmony comes from friction.

17.Decision making need to be fast and speedily implemented so that opportunity can be seized

18.Handle crisis, recognize and identify problems

19.Consider the nature of problem, analyze and develop possible solution

20.Select the best possible alternatives and execute it

You have two seconds to make and select the best possible solution,

And the rest of your life to live with the consequences

21.If the same thing don’t work the way they use to, change strategy

22.Being successful is all about details and teamwork

Talent wins games,

But teamwork wins champions

23.Each team member must know what to do.  Each has to understand his/her role and be able to interact with teammates effectively

24.Need self-confidence to make decisions

25.Trust yourself

In any moment of decision,

The best thing you can do is the right thing.

The next best thing is the wrong thing –

But the worst thing is not to make any decision at all,

And do nothing