Top 10 Tips For Networking Etiquette
1. Respect the time of the people you're networking with
2. Listen more than talk
3. Ask more than tell
4. Give more than ask
5. Maintain good eye contact
6. Don't mix networking, marketing and selling
7. Finesse really pays off - don't come on too strong
8. Make other people feel comfortable
9. Ask if this is a good time for a brief chat when following up
10. Thank people for their effort on your behalf

 

 

 

Ten Commandments of Communication 
1. Listen Generously
2. Say what you mean and mean what you say
3. Use the fewest words with the fewest syllables
4. Align with your audience
5. Be specific
6. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action
7. Structure your speech
8. Speak to be understood
9. Speak for the benefit of others
10. Speak from your highest self

The Paradoxical Commandments
1. People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

By Kent M. Keith