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October 20, 2013 at 12:05 AM
You might not be the type of person who loves to socialize, attend big parties or network whenever you get the chance. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be a great connector. Successful connectors, who would be classified as introverts, will often enter into social situations with a plan for making the desired connections. And a plan almost always produces better results than going into a networking event or other meeting and just “winging it.”
To effectively connect with another person, it doesn’t matter whether you are introverted or extroverted. What matters is that you’ve spent some time thinking about which relationships are most vital to you and have a plan for reaching those individuals effectively.
Do introverts connect better than extroverts? Sometimes, but recently one of the nation’s best-known networking professionals came to the realization that he is an introvert!
Ivan Misner, the founder of BNI and author of 11 books on networking, shared this shocking discovery with me in a recent interview. Misner said that his wife of 20 years told him during dinner one night that he displays many introvert tendencies.
