<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Christine Comaford-Lynch - entrepreneur and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/christine-comaford-lynch.jpg" alt="Christine Comaford-Lynch - entrepreneur and author" />Networking is about creating an extended family. It&#8217;s about developing connections, caring about people, increasing the size of your &#8220;tribe.&#8221; Most of all, networking is not the awkward social ritual many of us think it is&#8230; networking is actually FUN!</p>
<p><strong>Here are my top six networking essentials to rock your career and your life.</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Practice &#8220;Palm Up&#8221; Networking.</strong> When you network, are you giving, or grasping? Palm up networking embodies the spirit of service, of giving and wanting nothing in return. When you network &#8220;palm down&#8221; you&#8217;re grasping for personal gain. Palm up = heart-oriented interaction. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2008/05/six-essentials-for-networking-by-christine-comaford-lynch/" title="Permanent Link: Six Essentials for Networking" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":26,"date":"2008-05-02T04:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/05\/six-essentials-for-networking-by-christine-comaford-lynch\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T22:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:08:40","slug":"six-essentials-for-networking-by-christine-comaford-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/05\/six-essentials-for-networking-by-christine-comaford-lynch\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Essentials for Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Christine Comaford-Lynch - entrepreneur and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/christine-comaford-lynch.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Comaford-Lynch - entrepreneur and author\" \/>Networking is about creating an extended family. It&#8217;s about developing connections, caring about people, increasing the size of your &#8220;tribe.&#8221; Most of all, networking is not the awkward social ritual many of us think it is&#8230; networking is actually FUN!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are my top six networking essentials to rock your career and your life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Practice &#8220;Palm Up&#8221; Networking.<\/strong> When you network, are you giving, or grasping? Palm up networking embodies the spirit of service, of giving and wanting nothing in return. When you network &#8220;palm down&#8221; you&#8217;re grasping for personal gain. Palm up = heart-oriented interaction. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/05\/six-essentials-for-networking-by-christine-comaford-lynch\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Six Essentials for Networking\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}