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Do you Network consistently, or as Needed?
Timely New Study Finds Professionals Who Network Consistently Instead of As
Needed Earn More and Are Better Protected From a Recession
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- When the pink slip arrives or
necessity calls for a job change, most professionals reluctantly start
networking, but those who network consistently instead of as needed earn much
more and are better protected finds a new study from Upwardly Mobile, Inc.
with the assistance of the Graziadio School of Business Management at
Pepperdine University. Among the findings:
-- Elite professionals earning more than $200,000 a year, more so than
other respondents, cited networking as important to their careers and
self-reported a greater networking ability. They leverage their
network more, use job sites less, and consider networking a lifestyle rather
than a tool to be used when needed.
-- Thirty-one percent of elite high-earning professionals versus 19% of the
non-elites spend one to two hours each week networking.
-- Twenty-nine percent of the non-elite network only when there is a need
versus 18% of the elites.
-- Fifty-seven percent of elite professionals say job sites have no impact
on their career advancement while less than 35% of those in the
non-elites felt job sites have no impact.
-- More than 80% say networking impacts income. Fifty-eight percent believe
a skilled networker could see up to a 100% increase in income.
-- Forty percent of respondents said networking is how they found their
current job.
-- The highest earners said the single most critical factor in determining
the value of their network isn't the depth of their relationship
with contacts or the size of their network, but breadth of connections
with the right contacts--contacts willing to recommend them.
-- Among the online network management tools used by respondents, LinkedIn
is seven times more popular than its nearest contender.
"What surprised us was that most people use networking as a one-time reaction
to unemployment or a recession instead of long-term protection that can smooth
career transitions," says Promise Phelon, CEO of Upwardly Mobile, Inc. "It's
clear that a regular, purposeful networking habit, not just a profile on your
favorite professional networking site, will lead to greater mobility and
downside protection during tough economic times."
"The study reinforces the value of networking to career advancement and the
demand from professionals for better skill development and tools as part of
their education," says Linda A. Livingstone, Dean of the Pepperdine
University's Graziadio School of Business Management. "If our economy is
telling us anything, relationships and trust matter. We hope that our alumni
and graduates of all top MBA programs understand that the relationships they
build will have a direct impact on their professional success."
Study Background:
Upwardly Mobile, Inc. with the support of Pepperdine University's Graziadio
School of Business Management, conducted research for this study in April
2008. Upwardly Mobile helps professionals more effectively leverage their
professional networks to achieve career success. Six hundred and thirty-seven
respondents completed a Web-based survey with 22 questions. A select group of
participants also elaborated on their responses during 45-minmute interviews.
The purpose of the study was to understand the guiding principles for
professional networking and how those principles translate into regular
practices and skills that enable professionals to achieve immediate and
long-term career goals.
For a free PDF download of the 28-page study, please log on to:
http://www.upmo.com/knowledge/recent-research.html
SOURCE Upwardly Mobile Inc.
Mark Fortier of Fortier Public Relations, +1-212-675-6460, mark@fortierpr.com,
or F. Douglass Gore III of Graziadio School of Business and Management,
Pepperdine University, +1-310-568-5580, douglass.gore@pepperdine.edu
note from Dawn Billings: Articles like this reinforce how important networking is, especially for women. The Heart Link Network, an international women's networking organization, is dedicated to strengthening women and their relationships around the world.
Needed Earn More and Are Better Protected From a Recession
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- When the pink slip arrives or
necessity calls for a job change, most professionals reluctantly start
networking, but those who network consistently instead of as needed earn much
more and are better protected finds a new study from Upwardly Mobile, Inc.
with the assistance of the Graziadio School of Business Management at
Pepperdine University. Among the findings:
-- Elite professionals earning more than $200,000 a year, more so than
other respondents, cited networking as important to their careers and
self-reported a greater networking ability. They leverage their
network more, use job sites less, and consider networking a lifestyle rather
than a tool to be used when needed.
-- Thirty-one percent of elite high-earning professionals versus 19% of the
non-elites spend one to two hours each week networking.
-- Twenty-nine percent of the non-elite network only when there is a need
versus 18% of the elites.
-- Fifty-seven percent of elite professionals say job sites have no impact
on their career advancement while less than 35% of those in the
non-elites felt job sites have no impact.
-- More than 80% say networking impacts income. Fifty-eight percent believe
a skilled networker could see up to a 100% increase in income.
-- Forty percent of respondents said networking is how they found their
current job.
-- The highest earners said the single most critical factor in determining
the value of their network isn't the depth of their relationship
with contacts or the size of their network, but breadth of connections
with the right contacts--contacts willing to recommend them.
-- Among the online network management tools used by respondents, LinkedIn
is seven times more popular than its nearest contender.
"What surprised us was that most people use networking as a one-time reaction
to unemployment or a recession instead of long-term protection that can smooth
career transitions," says Promise Phelon, CEO of Upwardly Mobile, Inc. "It's
clear that a regular, purposeful networking habit, not just a profile on your
favorite professional networking site, will lead to greater mobility and
downside protection during tough economic times."
"The study reinforces the value of networking to career advancement and the
demand from professionals for better skill development and tools as part of
their education," says Linda A. Livingstone, Dean of the Pepperdine
University's Graziadio School of Business Management. "If our economy is
telling us anything, relationships and trust matter. We hope that our alumni
and graduates of all top MBA programs understand that the relationships they
build will have a direct impact on their professional success."
Study Background:
Upwardly Mobile, Inc. with the support of Pepperdine University's Graziadio
School of Business Management, conducted research for this study in April
2008. Upwardly Mobile helps professionals more effectively leverage their
professional networks to achieve career success. Six hundred and thirty-seven
respondents completed a Web-based survey with 22 questions. A select group of
participants also elaborated on their responses during 45-minmute interviews.
The purpose of the study was to understand the guiding principles for
professional networking and how those principles translate into regular
practices and skills that enable professionals to achieve immediate and
long-term career goals.
For a free PDF download of the 28-page study, please log on to:
http://www.upmo.com/knowledge/recent-research.html
SOURCE Upwardly Mobile Inc.
Mark Fortier of Fortier Public Relations, +1-212-675-6460, mark@fortierpr.com,
or F. Douglass Gore III of Graziadio School of Business and Management,
Pepperdine University, +1-310-568-5580, douglass.gore@pepperdine.edu
note from Dawn Billings: Articles like this reinforce how important networking is, especially for women. The Heart Link Network, an international women's networking organization, is dedicated to strengthening women and their relationships around the world.
5 Ways Women's Brains are different than Men's
Excerpted from a new book called Leadership and the Sexes written by Michael Gurian, co-founder of the Gurian
Institute which conducts brain-based research and provides education and training on gender issues and co-author
Barbara Annis, CEO of Barbara Annis & Associates, a company devoted to gender diversity research.
1. Women's brains are always "on."
There is more neural activity in the female brain at any given time than in the male brain.
This is probably why we as women are so much better at multi-tasking than men. Have you ever really thought about all of the things we keep track of at one time? Between kids, husbands, household's, our jobs, our friends, our charities, our churches - Wow, my brain hurts. : )
2. Men just want the facts.
Men usually ask fewer questions to stimulate conversation in their work relationships and often end conversations
more abruptly than women.
Women want the "who, what, when, where and why" behind the facts. Meaning matters to women. We love interrogative pronouns. Like journalists, we want the story, not simply the facts.
3. Women focus on friendship first.
Women tend to build relationships when they sell. They don’t tend to go into a transaction focused on the final
outcome but wanting to build rapport and learn more about the client first.
Women love to create relationships. We don't see one another as a "sale" we see one another as "people" who it would be fun to share our businesses, products and services with. That's why when men attempt to tell us its a numbers came, we know the only game we want to play is with people.
4. Men take it one task at a time.
Men tend to like to focus on one task at a time, whereas women’s brains are more geared to multitask.
Think of what the world would be like if we couldn't multi-task? Yikes. That would be frightening.
5. Women remember the little details.
Females can generally remember more physical and relational details than men.
That is why we relate to a women's face, the light in her eyes, and we want the story. We don't want boring statistics, we want meaning.
Because of the differences in our brains, we need different networking environments. That is why Dawn Billings, created The Heart Link Network, an international women's networking organization with over 120 locations across the US, Canada and Australia. The Heart Link Network was designed especially for the minds and hearts of women. Check out a location near you and experience the difference. Also Dawn created an online women's networking community for women around the world called The Heart Alliance
Institute which conducts brain-based research and provides education and training on gender issues and co-author
Barbara Annis, CEO of Barbara Annis & Associates, a company devoted to gender diversity research.
1. Women's brains are always "on."
There is more neural activity in the female brain at any given time than in the male brain.
This is probably why we as women are so much better at multi-tasking than men. Have you ever really thought about all of the things we keep track of at one time? Between kids, husbands, household's, our jobs, our friends, our charities, our churches - Wow, my brain hurts. : )
2. Men just want the facts.
Men usually ask fewer questions to stimulate conversation in their work relationships and often end conversations
more abruptly than women.
Women want the "who, what, when, where and why" behind the facts. Meaning matters to women. We love interrogative pronouns. Like journalists, we want the story, not simply the facts.
3. Women focus on friendship first.
Women tend to build relationships when they sell. They don’t tend to go into a transaction focused on the final
outcome but wanting to build rapport and learn more about the client first.
Women love to create relationships. We don't see one another as a "sale" we see one another as "people" who it would be fun to share our businesses, products and services with. That's why when men attempt to tell us its a numbers came, we know the only game we want to play is with people.
4. Men take it one task at a time.
Men tend to like to focus on one task at a time, whereas women’s brains are more geared to multitask.
Think of what the world would be like if we couldn't multi-task? Yikes. That would be frightening.
5. Women remember the little details.
Females can generally remember more physical and relational details than men.
That is why we relate to a women's face, the light in her eyes, and we want the story. We don't want boring statistics, we want meaning.
Because of the differences in our brains, we need different networking environments. That is why Dawn Billings, created The Heart Link Network, an international women's networking organization with over 120 locations across the US, Canada and Australia. The Heart Link Network was designed especially for the minds and hearts of women. Check out a location near you and experience the difference. Also Dawn created an online women's networking community for women around the world called The Heart Alliance
Is there Hope for Success in this economy?
Have you ever asked yourself "Is there hope for success in this economy?" I certainly have. As I watch the faces of women I love tighten with stress as they wonder will they and their husbands keep their jobs, it seems that hope is being squeezed like orange juice, it just doesn't end up tasting sweet. Billions of dollars, nearing a trilion in fact, are being poured into the economy but who is getting the money and the relief? Do you know any one personally that is benefiting that is hurting?
It seems that in these difficult times we will need one another to support, encourage, and share with. What can we do to enhance our success? Well I have a couple of thoughts to share.
1. Find people that you can help. For those of us who have clothes, dishes, extras of any kind, let's find people who need them and create our own small form of personal relief.
2. Find ways to recreate community. We have become isolated from one another and now it is time to recreate that community unity once again. Get to know your neighbors, offer to watch their backs, let's get back to borrowing eggs and taking one another cookies and brownies.
3. Network, network, network. We must expand our circles of influence and increase our social capital. It is much easier to get things done if you know people who have similar desires that want to unite to help you. Whether it is networking at the Chamber of Commerce, BNI, the new women's networking organization The Heart Link Network, face to face women's networking or social networking like Facebook, Linkedin or The Heart Alliance or Link to Success Business Networking, these groups can be expand our friends, our resources, our minds and especially our hearts.
4. Take time to be thoughtful and kind. This is a time for random acts of kindness. Share food with your neighbors. Send more cards. Send Out Cards is a wonderful and easy way to send thoughtful cards. Volunteer to do something worthwhile and hour or two a week, or month. Or do something as easy as visiting the lovely Heart-Notes Garden created by The Heart Link Network as a gift to the world. It is a "no cost", wonderful way to send a thoughtful note by planting a flower of appreciation, remembrance, thoughtfulness, or kindness in an Internet garden of love.
5. Spread inspiration. We must be harvesters of hope. Feed hope. Spread hope. Give hope. It is in this gift that we will truly find the HOPE for success in this economy.
Dawn Billings, CEO and Founder of TheHeartLinkNetwork, TheHeartAlliance, LinktoSuccess Business Networking. Dawn is the author of 15 books on parenting, relationships and entitlement. Dawn is the creator of the new parenting toy/tool called Capables. Dawn was selected as one of the nation's emerging women leaders by Oprah Magazine and The White House Project, and selected as one of 15 Women of Achievement by the YWCA in Georgia
Dawn is also the creator of the NEW Parenting toy/tool called CAPABLES that helps parents raise their children to be successful, extraordinary, happy adults.
It seems that in these difficult times we will need one another to support, encourage, and share with. What can we do to enhance our success? Well I have a couple of thoughts to share.
1. Find people that you can help. For those of us who have clothes, dishes, extras of any kind, let's find people who need them and create our own small form of personal relief.
2. Find ways to recreate community. We have become isolated from one another and now it is time to recreate that community unity once again. Get to know your neighbors, offer to watch their backs, let's get back to borrowing eggs and taking one another cookies and brownies.
3. Network, network, network. We must expand our circles of influence and increase our social capital. It is much easier to get things done if you know people who have similar desires that want to unite to help you. Whether it is networking at the Chamber of Commerce, BNI, the new women's networking organization The Heart Link Network, face to face women's networking or social networking like Facebook, Linkedin or The Heart Alliance or Link to Success Business Networking, these groups can be expand our friends, our resources, our minds and especially our hearts.
4. Take time to be thoughtful and kind. This is a time for random acts of kindness. Share food with your neighbors. Send more cards. Send Out Cards is a wonderful and easy way to send thoughtful cards. Volunteer to do something worthwhile and hour or two a week, or month. Or do something as easy as visiting the lovely Heart-Notes Garden created by The Heart Link Network as a gift to the world. It is a "no cost", wonderful way to send a thoughtful note by planting a flower of appreciation, remembrance, thoughtfulness, or kindness in an Internet garden of love.
5. Spread inspiration. We must be harvesters of hope. Feed hope. Spread hope. Give hope. It is in this gift that we will truly find the HOPE for success in this economy.
Dawn Billings, CEO and Founder of TheHeartLinkNetwork, TheHeartAlliance, LinktoSuccess Business Networking. Dawn is the author of 15 books on parenting, relationships and entitlement. Dawn is the creator of the new parenting toy/tool called Capables. Dawn was selected as one of the nation's emerging women leaders by Oprah Magazine and The White House Project, and selected as one of 15 Women of Achievement by the YWCA in Georgia
Dawn is also the creator of the NEW Parenting toy/tool called CAPABLES that helps parents raise their children to be successful, extraordinary, happy adults.
6 Secrets to Dealing with Today's Economic Stress
The Markets have gone MAD. Money Anxiety Disorder: That's what some are calling the latest American epidemic. While the market plunges, free-floating anxiety is rising. According to a survey in October by the American Psychological Association, 80 percent of us find the recent financial crisis a significant cause of stress—up from 66 percent last April—and women are bearing the brunt of the worry. Women are reporting greater concern over job stability, health problems, and financial concerns affecting their families. Many people have been careful about their finances. They have seen money as a safety net. Now that safety net appears to be unraveling right before their eyes.
While financial experts tell us not to panic, it is hard not to, when the reality is, people are afraid. Fear and stress take a serious toll on health, putting people at higher risk for a host of ailments from high blood pressure to heart disease. Most people know that research has shown that exercise and meditation are two of the most effective ways to reduce stress—but many feel too pressured to try either. So I asked a few experts for other strategies you might not have considered.
1. Sooth yourself. To lower financial stress, set a budget for each day and reward yourself with something soothing for staying on it. Alvin Hall, a financial commentator on BBC TV and radio and author of You and Your Money: Mastering the Emotions Behind the Numbers says, "Ask yourself: 'What is the one thing I can do that will give me the longest-lasting uplift for the least amount of money?'" During the economic downturn of 1987, Hall's treat was blackberry pie. "I'd think about it all day, and if I came in under my budget," he says, "I'd go order a slice. When I couldn't afford that, I'd visit the museum and look at Van Gogh paintings." What might feel soothing to you? A long bath, a walk, listening to music. Find ways to comfort and sooth yourself.
2. Nurture one another. Women, we are basic nurturers at our core. This is a time when we need to give one another manicures or pedicures. Or consider exchanging massages with your partner and friends. According to Robert Sapolsky, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University, who has studied wild baboons for 30 years, primates groom each other to reduce stress—and the effect seems to be more powerful for the one who is doing the primping. Think about it. Instead of giving up services like this, that are so nurturing, give them as loving gifts to one another. What a lovely way to intimately contribute to the life of another. Touch is very bonding. When times are tough we need to bond more than ever.
3. Take up knitting. According to research at the Harvard-affiliated Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, the repetitive motion and focus of needlework can elicit what's known as the relaxation response—a calming meditation-like state that slows heart rate and causes blood pressure to drop. In addition, a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests that knitting is associated with a lower risk of dementia for those 65 and older.
4. Visit the GOD CAN. Yes, there is a GOD CAN. The Heart Link Network, an international women's networking organization, and its online community for women called The Heart Alliance, have created a stress management gift for women everywhere. It costs nothing and is a comforting a lovely experience. You just go to the GOD CAN, write down any anxieties, concerns, or fears and press "I am done with this" and the note folds up and floats up and the lid of The GOD CAN opens for the note and then closes. Dawn L. Billings, the creator of the GOD CAN, was a family counselor for over 15 years and author of over 15 books. "What I found with my patients is that if you could give them a tangible way to release the stress in their lives, they felt real relief. I used to use balloons filled with helium, but now the GOD CAN works even better and it is as easy a click of a button on your computer. We are thrilled to offer than and many other services for women on our "no cost" online women's networking community."
5. Recreate community. Recreate deep and meaningful relationships in your life. Don't live isolated. During the Great Depression, historian David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945, father experienced "what they called a nervous breakdown." Nervous breakdowns are about anxiety and stress reaching astronomical levels. During this very frightening time, we must force ourselves to connect more. It is the strong, healthy relational bonds in our lives that keep us sane. The broader our community of people we trust is, the stronger and more fortified we feel. This is a time to reach out and link arms and hearts with those around you.
6. Give more. It is true that giving is better than receiving. It not only makes a difference to the person receiving the gift, but it makes an enormous difference in the life of the person giving the gift. Find people you can help in small ways. Dawn Billings, CEO and Founder of The Heart Link Network and Link to Success Business Networking says, "We must be committed to sharing more random acts of kindness. It might not plug all the holes in the dam that we feel might be crumbling in front of us, but kindness always makes the water warmer."
Dawn L. Billings was selected by Oprah Magazine and The White House Project as one of the nation's 80 emerging women leaders for her socially dynamic programs created to benefit the lives of women and children. Dawn was also chosen by the YWCA in GA as one of 15 "Women of Achievement" in 2008.
While financial experts tell us not to panic, it is hard not to, when the reality is, people are afraid. Fear and stress take a serious toll on health, putting people at higher risk for a host of ailments from high blood pressure to heart disease. Most people know that research has shown that exercise and meditation are two of the most effective ways to reduce stress—but many feel too pressured to try either. So I asked a few experts for other strategies you might not have considered.
1. Sooth yourself. To lower financial stress, set a budget for each day and reward yourself with something soothing for staying on it. Alvin Hall, a financial commentator on BBC TV and radio and author of You and Your Money: Mastering the Emotions Behind the Numbers says, "Ask yourself: 'What is the one thing I can do that will give me the longest-lasting uplift for the least amount of money?'" During the economic downturn of 1987, Hall's treat was blackberry pie. "I'd think about it all day, and if I came in under my budget," he says, "I'd go order a slice. When I couldn't afford that, I'd visit the museum and look at Van Gogh paintings." What might feel soothing to you? A long bath, a walk, listening to music. Find ways to comfort and sooth yourself.
2. Nurture one another. Women, we are basic nurturers at our core. This is a time when we need to give one another manicures or pedicures. Or consider exchanging massages with your partner and friends. According to Robert Sapolsky, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University, who has studied wild baboons for 30 years, primates groom each other to reduce stress—and the effect seems to be more powerful for the one who is doing the primping. Think about it. Instead of giving up services like this, that are so nurturing, give them as loving gifts to one another. What a lovely way to intimately contribute to the life of another. Touch is very bonding. When times are tough we need to bond more than ever.
3. Take up knitting. According to research at the Harvard-affiliated Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, the repetitive motion and focus of needlework can elicit what's known as the relaxation response—a calming meditation-like state that slows heart rate and causes blood pressure to drop. In addition, a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests that knitting is associated with a lower risk of dementia for those 65 and older.
4. Visit the GOD CAN. Yes, there is a GOD CAN. The Heart Link Network, an international women's networking organization, and its online community for women called The Heart Alliance, have created a stress management gift for women everywhere. It costs nothing and is a comforting a lovely experience. You just go to the GOD CAN, write down any anxieties, concerns, or fears and press "I am done with this" and the note folds up and floats up and the lid of The GOD CAN opens for the note and then closes. Dawn L. Billings, the creator of the GOD CAN, was a family counselor for over 15 years and author of over 15 books. "What I found with my patients is that if you could give them a tangible way to release the stress in their lives, they felt real relief. I used to use balloons filled with helium, but now the GOD CAN works even better and it is as easy a click of a button on your computer. We are thrilled to offer than and many other services for women on our "no cost" online women's networking community."
5. Recreate community. Recreate deep and meaningful relationships in your life. Don't live isolated. During the Great Depression, historian David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945, father experienced "what they called a nervous breakdown." Nervous breakdowns are about anxiety and stress reaching astronomical levels. During this very frightening time, we must force ourselves to connect more. It is the strong, healthy relational bonds in our lives that keep us sane. The broader our community of people we trust is, the stronger and more fortified we feel. This is a time to reach out and link arms and hearts with those around you.
6. Give more. It is true that giving is better than receiving. It not only makes a difference to the person receiving the gift, but it makes an enormous difference in the life of the person giving the gift. Find people you can help in small ways. Dawn Billings, CEO and Founder of The Heart Link Network and Link to Success Business Networking says, "We must be committed to sharing more random acts of kindness. It might not plug all the holes in the dam that we feel might be crumbling in front of us, but kindness always makes the water warmer."
Dawn L. Billings was selected by Oprah Magazine and The White House Project as one of the nation's 80 emerging women leaders for her socially dynamic programs created to benefit the lives of women and children. Dawn was also chosen by the YWCA in GA as one of 15 "Women of Achievement" in 2008.
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