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2013-10-27 19:30:48
Habit 4: Sit with the Wrong Company I'll ever forget my first Chamber meeting. One afternoon I sat down with 6 other local businesspeople for our monthly networking lunch. Naturally, the first thing I did was look at everyone's nametags. (Not only to learn their names but to examine the effectiveness of their nametags' design and placement.)
But these were the nametags I saw: ADM Financial, ADM Financial, ADM Financial, ADM Financial, ADM Financial, ADM Financial, Scott. (Company name changed to protect the victims.)
Highly Horrible networkers not only attend meetings with their friends and/or coworkers, but they talk and sit with them the entire time! These are people with whom they've worked 5 days a week, 8 hours a day for the past 3 years! This is not a good technique to maximize your company's visibility.
This habit creates an elitist, unfriendly attitude. And think uncomfortable this makes the one or two people sitting at the table who don't work for that company! It's unfair to them because they're unable to meet a diverse group of people with whom to develop mutually valuable relationships! Remember: If you're sitting with YOUR company you're sitting with the WRONG company.
Habit 6: Small Talk is for Suckers Highly Horrible Networkers forget about the small talk. It's a waste of their time. They don't ask or answer about and exciting things happening at work or Thanksgiving was, they simply jump right into (what they believe to be) the most important part of the discussion: selling 17 of their products before the salad arrives.
5 things to do this weekend
Sunday at First Christian Church, 1809 El Paseo in Las Cruces. Sponsored by the Mesilla Valley Jazz Blues Society. $8; $5 for members; $1 for students. 5753732188. Sunday at the La Fe Culture Technology Center, 721 S. Ochoa (rear building). The La Fe Dance Troupe also will perform. $7; $5 for children 12 and younger, seniors and military. 4494069, 3095247.
3 Las Cruces Tour of Gardens Four private gardens in Las Cruces' Las Alturas area, plus the Zuhl Museum on the NMSU campus, will be featured in this year's tour. $5; free for children 12 and younger. Tickets and maps are available from several businesses including Enchanted Gardens, 270 Avenida de Mesilla, and Glenn Cutter Gallery, 2640 El Paseo. Presented by the Mesilla Valley Garden Club and Desert Daubers Garden Club of Las Cruces; 5755210521. Sunday in the Zach White Elementary School parking lot, 4256 Roxbury. No race day registration for 5K and 10K. today at the race site. today at Veterans Memorial Plaza in front of the San Elizario Chapel in San Elizario. Artist studios and galleries in the art district also will be open.
5K race series starts Tuesday
"Each Tuesday evening folks gather to run or walk the country road 5K course between the Sites Strawberry Farm and the old Hall Farm in Athens," Scott said. The series is now in its third season. The Victory Club was formed in the 1940s as a civic group for local women who raise money for Christmas baskets, Easter flowers, gifts and cards for people who are recovering from illness, cash assistance for bereavement and funerals and baby quilts for newborns.
Children under 10 can run, walk or ride in strollers for free. Handmade ribbons will be awarded to the first three participants to cross the finish line in four categories: Male runners, female runners, walkers and children not yet in high school.
