How To Be Likable

For many of us, networking has so many potentially conflicting priorities, it can be hard to focus on the one that might be the simplest and most valuable: Being likable.

In this latest post, Pete shares his thoughts about how to get out of your own way and achieve likability quickly and easily.

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hey everybody just a quick thought for you as you think about networking i want you to take your priorities and review them and i want to throw out a priority that might not occur to you so whenever you network you generally think yeah it’s a good idea for me to know how to talk about myself and know how to talk about my firm and of course my firm wants me to sell for it and i’d be happy to do that but i want you to prioritize being likable and when you do that when you put that at the top of the list what you find yourself able to do is just engage another human being like another human being and you can be curious about them and you can ask them questions and you can learn about them you can learn about who they are what they care about what excites them what they enjoy if you can honestly authentically care about them and really want to hear the answers and want to learn more and can get excited about the stuff that they’re excited about of course they’re going to like you and they’re going to enjoy the conversation and they wouldn’t mind it if you wanted to continue the conversation and they wouldn’t mind it at all if you asked for their business card or asked if they’re on linkedin or whatever you do these days to follow up with folks get interested and excited about the other person so that they like you and want them to like you be open to that possibility that’s all i’ve got for you this time enjoy networking enjoy yourself enjoy them as they talk about themselves

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