We all know the importance of developing networks in the workplace, so we are keen to participate in various lectures, forums, dinners and tea parties all day long. And WeChat has been added a circle, but in the end, have you noticed that it seems that these friends are limited to adding WeChat, and they have never been contacted again, or that there is almost no substantial help for you, that is, eating with friends and bragging, saying that I have seen whom.
What kind of connections are really valuable in the workplace?
Nowadays, on the Internet, we can often see people because they have made connections with big guys
An example of success, like Meng Yutong, who went to Gree before, is an example, just because she got to know Dong Mingzhu and grew rapidly, although she left Gree later, but the advantage of getting to know high-end connections made her become famous quickly.
There is also Xiaomi's Zhou Shouzi, known as the ceiling of workers, with an annual salary of hundreds of millions, became Xiaomi's CFO at the age of 32, and met more than 300 companies every month, got to know a wide range of contacts, and finally helped Xiaomi successfully go public, and his career has also developed brilliantly.
In fact, whether connections are valuable or not, you must learn to communicate, even when you are in college, to talk to seniors about such connections can also let you know, how to choose a major, how to do a grade point, employment direction, etc., talk to these seniors, you can avoid a lot of detours, this is the value of networking in school.
This is especially true for workplace socialization, because the workplace is relatively closed and there are many unspoken rules. Therefore, when you are just entering the workplace, you should talk to more people who are more senior than you, because what you are about to experience has already been experienced by others, as long as you get a little bit of help from your seniors, it will accelerate the road to success and then you go to PK with your peers, then your chances of winning will definitely be greatly improved.
And like this kind of information, in fact, people in the workplace are very willing to share, as long as the occasion is appropriate, even if it is a meal or a coffee. Because people are good teachers, this is also a kind of "show-off" capital for them.
Even if it doesn't help you much for your temporary work, the summary information you hear is also your social capital to meet different people in the future, which makes people feel that you have some ideas, which is not simple and easy to leave a better impression.
In fact, the lowest logic of social networking is the exchange of value
A little utilitarian analysis and you'll understand
You are not related to others, and you have to spend time to help you, what are they trying to do?
Either you may be very good, and people are just recruiting, seeing that you are a good child, and have the intention of recruiting you to your command.
Either you are in a common circle, or there is some kind of connection, such as where is the leader of your relative, and it is exactly what he wants to contact, and helping you is equivalent to helping himself.
The last one is that you don't have any relationship, so it's really helping you to do good deeds, purely for a sense of self-satisfaction.
So the lower you look at these 3 categories, the lower your value to the other party, and the more difficult it is for you to get a reply, when you understand this truth. For us to socialize, in addition to meeting people and getting information, what we should really ask ourselves is where my value is
What can I offer to the other person, what do you offer?
The more interested people are, the higher your social value will be
Then the higher the success rate of your social networking
The underlying logic of social networking is value exchange
We have to make ourselves more valuable
And not particularly utilitarian
As soon as I came up, I asked the other party for value
For example, I see that your company has an opportunity, can you recommend me, this is definitely not good.
In fact, for beginners in the workplace, you may not be able to provide so many resources to others at first
It comes down to figuring out how we can make ourselves a more useful person
For example, if the other party is organizing an event, can we be a volunteer?
Suppose the other party is looking up information and doing research, then can we take a start?
Even if you really don't have anything you can do to help
Even if you send a blessing during the New Year's holidays
It will make people think that you are a hard-working person
Many people think that it is too old-fashioned to send blessings to others now
Others will not find it annoying
Actually, not at all, no one will refuse a blessing.
Socializing is not an easy task, it takes time and energy, and it also depends on long-term accumulation and management, in the process, we must master his underlying logic, learn to use it for me, and give full play to the maximum value of the network.