Networking Insight

20 Words to Describe Networking Excellence

Building relationships takes time, effort, and energy. The results can be very rewarding or disappointing. If done effectively, then you can reap the benefits during your entire career.

Below are 20 words that describe the feeling or result from efficiently building long-lasting relationships:

1. Excitement
2. Respect
3. Connections
4. Trust
5. Friendship
6. Expert
7. Reputation
8. Client
9. Career
10. Job
11. Partner
12. Happiness
13. Satisfied
14. Speaker
15. Brand
16. Referral
17. Capital
18. Mentor
19. Alignment
20. Fun

What other words come to mind?

Seven Relationship Building Activities on Memorial Day

While Memorial Day is a time recognize our veterans, it is also a great time to connect with friends and family. During this holiday, you may socialize with people who you only see a few of times a year or less. Take the time to get to reconnect and update each other on your lives.

Interacting with people on a more personal and casual level is a great way get to know one another better. Building long term relationship should include both knowing one another's professional and personal sides. Regardless of whether it is family or a friend, you can build deeper relationships during holidays.

Here are some relationship building activities that you can do on Memorial Day:

• Attend BBQs - Great way to meet new people and reconnect with family and friends
• Attend Sporting Events - Many outdoor activities happen during the holiday weekend so attend with people who invite you
• Play Sports - Memorial Day weekend is a great time to play sports with others, especially golf
• Hang Out with Neighbors - Get to know your neighbors better by hanging out with them outside since the weather is nice
• Set Up Meetings for After the Holiday - Spend some time connecting with others via email to set up meetings
• Catch Up on Emails - When the slow down of business activity, find time to respond to emails
• Keep Active in Social Media - Remain active in your social media activity. Consistency is important.
• Write Articles or Blog Posts - Take advantage of the down time to write articles that you can post.

What are some other relationship building activities that you can do during Memorial Day?

 

Top Reasons to Apply for Founder Institute Chicago (Summer 2016 Semester)

The Founder Institute Chicago's Summer 2016 Semester is now accepting applications at www.fi.co/join. The early bird application deadline is June 5, 2016.

• World’s Largest Startup Launch Program - Become part of the world's largest global startup network with the assistance of our company-building curriculum, expert feedback, and peer support. The Founder Institute has graduated 2,100 companies and 2,500 founders across 135 cities across six continents.

 

• Anybody Can Apply - Anybody who is passionate about building a technology company is welcome to apply: idea or no idea, full-time job or unemployed, young or old, male or female, experienced in business or straight out of school. We also support a wide range of technology industries: including digital media, software, biotech, cleantech, ecommerce, advertising, consumer electronics, and more.

 

• Keep Your Day Job - Through a part-time four month program, existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs - while still keeping their day job.

 

• Graduate Liquidity Pool - Our unique Graduate Liquidity Pool enables graduates and mentors to share in the equity upside of each class, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where great new businesses can flourish.

 

• Learn from Seasoned Mentors – The backbone of the Founder Institute is its mentors who lead the weekly training sessions. The mentors assist founders by sharing their experience, outlining the latest tactics, and providing critical feedback.

 

• Service Provider Discounts - We leverage our global scale to secure free and discounted services from leading law firms, hosting companies, technology providers, and over 200 other vendors.

 

• Fellowships - The Founder Institute offers a number of different Fellowships, providing opportunity for promising founders to launch a company in our startup program, free of charge. The Founder Institute Chicago includes fellowships for female, veteran, and technical. You can find more details at http://fi.co/fellowships.

 

• Prestige - The growing success of Graduates, combined with the difficulty in completing the program and the credibility of the Mentors, make graduation a prestigious accomplishment to help you secure investment, close partnership deals, find co-founders, and ultimately build a meaningful and enduring business.