The Attributes of Successful Networkers

Successful networkers share a wide variety of attributes. All of which can make for success, persons who do not have these attributes would be well advised to make friends with successful networkers.

The best way to build a successful network is to identify successful networkers and get included in their networks. That way you can build a large network with a large number of contacts without doing that much work on your own.

Therefore you need to be aware of the attributes successful networkers share so you can identify them. Here are a few of those characteristics:

• A successful networker has what is called high emotional intelligence. That is she is very good at getting along with others and cultivating contacts and friendships.
  
• A successful network builder is often very astute and well-informed about what is going on.
  
• A good networker is a participator he or she regular attends meetings of organizations like the National Association of Professional Women or NAPW and gets involved. They are often the leaders and officers of groups.
  
• An expert networker is often highly involved in many different organizations and causes. In many communities there are a few people who run everything and work on everything. Cultivating these people is often the way to get in the loop.
  
• Competent networkers are free from prejudice and bigotry. They are willing to work with everybody and to try and include everybody in their activities. In many cases they are the first to welcome newcomers and the last to turn away a person in need.
  
• The best networkers are very sensitive and intuitive they know what is going on and what people are doing. They are often good at reading people and will often cultivate relationships with those others ignore.
  
• Really good networkers are often very good at avoiding persons with criminal or antisocial tendencies. They are often the first to spot and avoid stuffed shirts, blowhards and hucksters. Yet they will also be the first to spot a true opportunity.
  
• Finally, great networkers are great listeners, they may take little or no part in the conversation but they know everybody in the room and what everybody is doing. They get this way because they close their mouths and keep their ears and their minds open.

Strategies for Success in Today’s World

To be successful at an activity such as a career or a business you will have to create a strategy. Unfortunately most women do not how to create such a strategy. They do not know to take control of their lives and change direction to achieve their goals.

Now it is certainly possible to learn about strategies from books, tapes and seminars. It is also possible to learn your own strategy by accident or by circumstance. That of course can be both expensive and painful and very wasteful.

There is a better way to learn strategies for success and apply them. Expose yourself to successful women and learn from them. Instead of spending your time in a seminar or listening to tapes participate in organizations like the National Association of Professional Women where you can meet and interact with such ladies.

You can learn all sorts of important lessons from such women including how to succeed in your career and your family life. You can learn how to budget time, set goals, deal with sexism and discrimination and much more from them if you are willing to get to know them. That means you must be willing to participate and to interact.

An important skill that you can learn from such gatherings is networking which is one of the most powerful, creative, and successful business strategies around. Most successful businesspeople and executives are great networkers.

There are many other strategies that you can use including some that can be applied to your business. All of these can be learned from acquaintance with successful persons and the best organization like the National Association of Professional Women

Rowena is a successful entrepreneur who likes sharing her knowledge to aspiring entrepreneurs. She also likes the National Association of Professional Women or NAPW for empowering women.

How to Achieve the Qualities that will lead you to Success

The best way to become successful is to achieve the qualities that will lead you to success. Fortunately this task is not impossible but it will require a lot of hard work and sacrifice upon your part. You may have to change your thinking and your attitude.

The first step in this process is to identify the qualities that will lead you to success. These qualities include:

• Tenacity
  
• Courage
  
• Intelligence
  
• Integrity
  
• Imagination
  
• Intuition
  
• Ambition
  
• Faith
  
• Determination
  
• Creativity
  
• Clarity
  
• Strength
  

Contrary to popular belief most women have these qualities but they simply do not know how to use them to succeed. For thousands of years, traditional societies conditioned women not to use these qualities or to channel them into one facet of their lives such as their family. How many women are bold and assertive around their families but not at work?

Developing the qualities that will lead you to success and more importantly applying them in your life is not as tough as you think. Simply recognizing that you have those qualities and starting to use them is the first step. A second and even more important step is to find role models.

Role models are women that have the qualities that will lead you to success and more importantly know how to use them. Fortunately such women are all around you even if you don’t recognize them. Family members, superiors, coworkers, friends, neighbors, teachers, and others may have these traits. So will famous women in all fields including businesswomen, entrepreneurs, lawyers, actresses, singers, politicians and leaders. Your local community leaders are often some of the best role models so are your superiors at work. 

Another place to find good role models that can teach you how to develop the qualities that will lead you to success is in organizations. Groups like the National Association of Professional Women or NAPW can expose you to such ladies and let you learn from them. The more time you spend around successful women the more likely you will be to develop the qualities that will make you successful.

Women’s Success Rate in the Corporate World, Rising

The success rate for women in the corporate world is rising despite the recent economic downturn. There are now more women CEOs than ever before.

Major companies with female leaders include Pepsi, Xerox, RiteAid, Sunoco, Western Union, Archers Daniel Midland and Kraft Foods to name just a few. In addition to running the company, there are now more women in the board room than ever before. Almost every major corporation has more than one female board member.

As the success rate for women rises, the profile of women rises and so do the opportunities. Stock holders and boards are more likely to entrust the future of their companies to women than ever before. There are also more qualified women for these positions than ever before.

Thousands of Women Executives


There are now thousands of women executives with decades of experience. Not surprisingly corporations want to take advantage of this tremendous pool of talent. Women themselves are also more assertive and demanding and getting the leadership roles.

One reason why women leaders are in demand is that people believe women have more tenacity and emotional intelligence than men do. The Harvard Business Review found that most executives thought women had more emotional intelligence and tenacity than men did. These attributes were seen as strengths in a leader and vital to leadership.

The survey indicates that attitudes towards women leaders are changing. Women are now seen as having strengths that men do not have and of being as good or better than men. Another reason why women’s success rate is increasing is that companies increasingly recognize that having both men and women on the leadership team makes the company stronger. The attributes women have balance those of the men and give the company an edge in decision making.

As the stature of professional women rises in the workplace, the need for places where women can network and communicate will increase. That increases the demand for organizations such as the National Association of Professional Women or NAPW. Such organizations can give women the tools they need to take advantage of the increasing success rate.

Do You Know What Successful Women have in Common?

All successful women will have many things in common, unfortunately most of us do not know how to recognize those traits. Indeed the qualities we focus upon are often the opposite of those that lead to success.

The main ingredient in the formula for success is tenacity this simply means that the successful do not give up. Nine out of ten successful people have one thing in common they do not give up. They keep going in the face of adversity, failure, set backs and even tenacity. Many people who are that intelligent, creative, capable or skillful succeed because they simply keep going.

There are many highly intelligent, imaginative, creative, ambitious, highly skilled women stuck in dead end jobs because they simply gave up. What successful women have in common is this they know that there will be adversity so they keep going.

The second feature of what successful women have in common is that they are imaginative. They think outside the box, they do not accept the status quo or the conventional wisdom. They look for new answers, new ideas and new ideas and solutions even when moving in such a course of direction invites ridicule and opposition. These are the people who adopt the new technologies, apply the new methods and move into the new fields. They succeed because they see what others do not.

The most important trait that successful women share is that they believe they are successful or can be successful. Most failures have one thing in common: they believe they are failures. They believe they are doomed to poverty, mediocrity, and failure. They listen when everybody around them tells them that that they are doomed to fail and then wonder why they failed.

This leads us to another thing that successful women have in common they spend time with other successful women. They give themselves role models and friends that can teach them that success is possible and doable. Failures surround themselves with failure, successful people surround themselves with success.

That is why organizations like the National Association of Professional Women or NAPW are so important. They are full of successful women who can show you what successful women have in common.

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