Today’s show is with an amazing connector and all around awesome person, Judy Robinett.
Judy Robinett is a power connector and the author of How to Be a Power Connector – The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Networks into Profits. How to Be a Power Connector was selected as #1 Business Book of 2014 by Inc. magazine.
Judy is a business thought leader profiled in Forbes, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg as a “super connector” who uses their 30 years entrepreneurial experience and connections to accelerate growth and enhance profitability of public and private businesses.
How to Be a Power Connector is about how to build a network. Unlike many books in this genre, it’s written by a woman who has lived it. Drawing on a wealth of experience as an executive, fundraiser, and adviser to boards and entrepreneurs, Judy Robinett offers guidance on how to form authentic relationships that bring mutual benefits.
It was really great to sit down with Judy and have this conversation. Her book, How to Be a Power Connector opened my eyes to a brand new way to build a network or strong alliances where mutual respect, common core values, and adding value is the bottom line.
Judy dives into topics like
- How to overcome being shy
- Establishing your self worth
- How to ask the 2 golden questions when you meet someone
- Focusing on your emotional IQ
- Listening and finding how to add value
- If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got
- Being in the right room with the right people
- Some tips for developing your emotional intelligence
- Everything you do says who you are
- The importance of asking for help
- Confronting your assumptions and beliefs
- How people just want to be acknowledged and cared about
- Listening to your heart
- Following up and keeping people top of mind
- Focus on 25 to 50 people
- Connecting because you want to, not because you expect something in return
- Conveying warmth and generosity
- How making connections between people in your network can make you the go to person
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“Change takes guts, it takes imagination, it takes commitment”
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Resources
Pick up Judy’s book : How to Be a Power Connector : The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits
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