While networking, keep in mind that everything you do is a reflection of you and of how you do business. Be positive. Be solutions oriented. Demonstrate good business practices. Bring out the best in others. Enjoy great food and be energized by other local business connections. Remember, it takes time to cultivate good business relationships. Networking can greatly increase your contacts and your reach in the community.
Here are some things to keep in mind when networking:
“Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach” Albert Einstein
- Are you inspiring confidence in others?
- Are you encouraging others to reach for greatness?
- Are you influencing people in a positive way or a negative way today?
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
- Leadership is influence, not authority.
- Leaders build up, complainers tear down.
- Leaders inspire, complainers conspire.
- Every word you say should be reflecting your vision of who you want to be.
- You have taken your time to meet and connect with other people. Honour your time.
- The people around you have taken their time to visit with you, honour their time.
- Remember, you don’t need a title to be a leader. You are the leader of the space you occupy.
- Leaders strive to control themselves, not others.
“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” Tom Peters
“Gratitude is riches, complaint is poverty.” Doris Day
“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.” Hugh Miller
“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.” John J Pershing
“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” John Maxwell
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” Proverb
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John Maxwell
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” Publilius Syrus
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch
“Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.” Donald Rumsfeld
“Earn your leadership every day Michael Jordan
“Education is the mother of leadership.” Wendell Willkie
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” General Colin Powell
“An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.” Bo Bennett
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” Herbert Swope
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Thomas Jefferson
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions.” Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F.” Kennedy
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.” Brian Tracy
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” Norman Schwarzkopf
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” Colin Powell
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” General Dwight Eisenhower
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
“Management is about arranging and telling.” Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” Tom Peters
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” Stephen Covey
“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” General Montgomery
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.” Chinese Proverb
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold Glasow
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” Sam Walton
“Skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” Harry S.” Truman
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” Theodore Roosevelt
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” Jim Rohn
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Harvey Firestone
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Kenneth Blanchard
“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“You manage things; you lead people.” Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
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