Social Capital Mentor

How to Build Relationships? Try Being Friendly

I know it sounds simple, but as Caelan Huntress points out in his article, Build your Business by Making Friends, people often are too aggressive when networking and trying to connect with others. They try to sell, sell, sell. Caelan reminds us to take it easy and focus on the person. He sums it up [...]

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Developing Social Capital: Why Should I Care How You Feel?

I wish I could tell you that developing your social capital is as simple as following a checklist. Do precisely this, then that, immediately followed by more of this… and you’ll be fine. In reality, it doesn’t work that way. It’s more than that. But don’t worry, you can still learn it. Social capital is about [...]

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Can You Swear at Work?

That depends on which part of the world you’re in. I’m not going to tell you that you need good work-place manners to develop social capital. You already know that manners are important. That said, I did find this article by Miral Fahmy to be a pretty interesting look at how perceptions of manners are [...]

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Turning Social Skills Into Money

In my last post, I talked about Carolyn Davis’ social skills. One of the reasons we hired her to cater our party was because she’s great with people; she’s got great social skills. One of my regular readers reminded me of something that I want to be clear about. Here at Social Capital Mentor, we don’t [...]

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