Networking Doesn’t Have to Be a Drag

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Building relationships that benefit our careers isn’t about exchanging business cards at work events; it’s about getting to know people we can learn from. We discuss how to develop a strong network and what the very best women networkers do. Guest: Inga Carboni. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:22.0	I just stopped calling it networking.
0:24.0	Like I, the term networking to me still feels so like I,
0:29.0	it just
0:35.0	naturally like, I just naturally like,
0:37.0	like I'm very curious about other people,
0:39.0	I like meeting people, like I like those events
0:42.0	where you're forced to mingle and be social and talk about whatever
0:45.2	you're working on or whatever you feel like.
0:47.5	But I cannot call that networking and if something is like billed as a networking event like I can't I can't go I
0:55.2	feel like there's so much pressure to say the right things when it's described as
0:59.2	networking versus when it's just go meet someone and have an interesting conversation.
1:04.0	To walk out with X number of business cards.
1:06.7	Yes.
1:07.7	That I leave in a pile on my desk that's never been dealt with.
1:11.0	Yeah, it's sort of the kind of cognitive dissonance of LinkedIn for me.
1:15.5	Mm. Is that the bigger my network gets, the less linked in I feel to it.
1:20.7	Right. Right.
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