009: Masterful Mingling with Susan RoAne
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 9 May 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Great communication skills are critical to success in today’s workplace. Mingling maven Susan RoAne shows us how to make the most of social events and build relationships by sharing tips and tricks learned from a lifetime of experience in the networking world.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How a farmer reframed the ‘dirty’ word networking into something positive.
2) The three essential elements of a self-introduction.
3) Several safe opening lines to use when meeting new people, anywhere.
4) How to keep a conversation flowing using the OAR technique.
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— ABOUT SUSAN —
Susan RoAne is known as the “mingling maven” and is famous for her book How to Work a Room, which has sold over a million copies across 13 countries. She’s been named by Forbes.com as one of the networking experts to follow in 2015. An author and in-demand international keynote speaker, she has shared her message of connection and communication with audiences worldwide, and in diverse publications including the New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.
• Susan's book: How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections – In Person and Online
• Susan's book: The Secrets of Savy Networking: How to Make the Best Connections – For Business and Personal Success by Susan RoAne
• Susan’s website: susanroane.com
• Susan’s blog: susanroane.com/blog
• Susan’s Facebook: Facebook page
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Website: fripp.com
• Video: Robert Waldinger’s TED Talk, What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
• Book: Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study by George Vaillant
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello again, well, I'm super excited to introduce |
| 0:19.7 | our next guest, the mingly maven, Susanan but first a thank you is in order we |
| 0:26.5 | hit the new and noteworthy of iTunes which is awesome in three categories and |
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| 0:43.0 | We're in all of them. |
| 0:44.0 | So that's really cool. |
| 0:45.0 | The download number is really big, and that's fun and exciting. |
| 0:48.0 | But that's also kind of news for this show, |
| 0:51.0 | because before it's usually it was kind of people I knew on |
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| 1:18.3 | Pete at awesome at your job.com. So thanks so much, it's exciting, and this lasts for a number of weeks and we're just grateful for it and really cool |
| 1:27.4 | So thank you for that so I've on a business content here talking about our guest Susan ran today. It's so fun. I met |
| 1:35.0 | her 10 years ago at an Linaiy writers come home event and go figure this champion of |
| 1:42.4 | networking and mingling had a bit of a memory of me and we were able to reconnect |
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