This a question I often get from students and people new to #remotework and #remoteleadership “How do I network remotely”? Social networking is a necessary skill and is often the learned skill that is the biggest key to success. But those who think it must be a new dark witchcraft to develop robust remote social and business networking is a bogus notion. In truth, many of us have been cultivating these skills since social media started. Initially, we didn’t consider how it could help or hinder our careers.
With this said, I have a video on how you can work on your social and business networking in a remote workplace. And for those still in skill, these skills are excellent for helping to learn how to reach out to network with teachers. Mentorship is an easily forgotten tool we all need to develop our individual council or, as I call mine, my coven of business specialists. (I refer to my personal mentors as a group as my coven because the root word of which is in the word weird. All mine are unique and, to the untrained eye, abnormal. They embody the concept of why blend in when you are born to shine. They also have the communication style of all being aligned and collectively speaking to each other as equals to be genuinely supportive has always made me so grateful for their presence in my life and respectful of their differences. Their differences are part of the core of their authentic leadership and have taught me so much in work and life. One of which gave me the inspiration to name my consulting firm Wicked B of the West because of an insult a sales rep gave me on the job. My mentor within my Coven told me, “When people reach for cheap insults and seek to discredit and remove you from your seat, you know you have arrived. Cause you are making those people actually work so they want to get rid of you. Not everyone can handle the magic in you. Her words have always rung true, and I greatly appreciate her guidance.)
With this in mind all business professionals should be developing their network and their mentorship council to help get to that next level. And this concept is not impossible in remote work. Watch my video and comment on ways you have found for enhancing your network remotely.
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