106: How to Create Your Personal Networking Plan, with John Corcoran
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2013
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
John Corcoran: How To Create Your Personal Networking Plan
Key Points
- You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
- Identify 50 people you want to build relationships with.
- The most meaningful relationships get beyond industry talking points and connect with someone at a personal level.
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| 0:00.0 | The vast majority of us both want and need a strong professional network to support our career and leadership success, |
| 0:09.0 | but a lot of us just don't know where to start. |
| 0:12.0 | On this episode, I welcome former White House |
| 0:14.6 | speechwriter John Kocoran to teach us how to grow our network. This is |
| 0:19.5 | coaching for leaders Episode 106. |
| 0:23.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:28.0 | Greetings from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host |
| 0:36.5 | Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly coaching show to help people be better leaders through improved communications, human relations, and personal |
| 0:46.9 | productivity. |
| 0:47.9 | And one thing that we all need as leaders is to have a network that supports our development helps us to continue to grow |
| 0:58.9 | our career and also is a way for us to give back to the world and to impact and influence the lives of others in a positive way. |
| 1:09.0 | And if that's something that you struggle with like I do, then this is the episode for you because |
| 1:15.3 | I'm really excited to have on a guest who knows a lot about this. |
| 1:19.4 | John Kocoran used to work in the White House. |
| 1:21.8 | He has leveraged his skills of networking |
| 1:25.0 | and developing relationships with people effectively in order to do some great |
| 1:28.6 | things in his career which you'll hear about and he also has a e-book out that you can download which we'll talk about in this |
| 1:34.8 | episode as well. He's also a member of the Coaching for Leaders Community has |
| 1:38.8 | been listening to this podcast for a couple of months and we recently got talking and I'm so glad to be able to |
| 1:45.0 | bring this episode to you so here's my conversation with John. I'm really excited to welcome my guest this week, John Corcoran. |
| 1:58.0 | John is a former writer and speech writer in the White House. |
| 2:04.6 | He worked for President Clinton and has worked in Hollywood and Silicon Valley. |
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