How many prospects and clients has your business lost due to lack of social acumen skills?
How many chances to collaborate were lost because people missed the cues?
What is social acumen?
It is a skill set that includes:
Ram Charan’s book, Leaders at All Levels, reports that as people develop their social acumen, their networks often extend beyond the business to include customers, suppliers, regulators, politicians, and various interest groups. The relationships tend to be durable because they are built on trust. That trust allows information to flow both ways, exposing people to new ideas and different ways of seeing things. This is an example of what we mean at Contacts Count when we emphasize the “the power of human connection.”
Networking Gracefully using the skills of social acumen is one of the 8 competencies that we have developed at Contacts Count to help people just like you make Networking an Art not an Accident!
How many chances to collaborate were lost because people missed the cues?
What is social acumen?
It is a skill set that includes:
- Paying attention! Disappear your phone and listen for conversational cues and opportunities to address needs and commonalities.
- Tuning into another person's perspective or way of seeing things.
- Building relationships with a wide variety of people.
- Responding appropriately in many different business and social settings.
Ram Charan’s book, Leaders at All Levels, reports that as people develop their social acumen, their networks often extend beyond the business to include customers, suppliers, regulators, politicians, and various interest groups. The relationships tend to be durable because they are built on trust. That trust allows information to flow both ways, exposing people to new ideas and different ways of seeing things. This is an example of what we mean at Contacts Count when we emphasize the “the power of human connection.”
Networking Gracefully using the skills of social acumen is one of the 8 competencies that we have developed at Contacts Count to help people just like you make Networking an Art not an Accident!
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