Communication + Collaboration = Community

Leverage is all about maximizing your opportunities. It’s finding Common Ground. Some call it the 6 degrees of separation, others call it a tipping point.

Definition of Community: A group of dedicated individuals working together to achieve common goals.

The Power of Leverage – “Leverage = Speed = Goals”

Donna Messer• Lifestyle Editor, Freelance Writer

•Inspiring and Motivational Public Speaker

•Corporate Trainer

•Published Author of 4000+ articles

•Radio and TV Personality

•Former Broadcast Journalist

How can you leverage knowing me and who I know?

Cora – The Queen of Breakfast!

BREAKFAST WITH CORA

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Meet Cora Tsouflidou

Founder of Chez Cora restaurant chain

From her childhood to her failed marriage

From the opening of her first restaurant

To the creation of the Chez Cora Foundation

Cora shares her experience

As a woman, a mother and an entrepreneur

Negotiate

ExploreContact

OpportunitySolution

Strategize

Maximize Your Leverage Measure the Results! - Opportunity to Solution

It’s all about leveraging your Network

•WHO are you?

•WHAT do you need?

•WHAT are you willing to share?

Awareness Heightens Achievement! A-H-AFind your Common Ground -

1. What do you like to do?2. What are you good at?3. What are your strengths?4. What are your weaknesses?5. What are your hobbies/interests?6. What associations do you belong to? 7. Who do you know? (Social Capital)8. What special skills do you have?9. Do you a volunteer? Where?10. What are you most proud of?

Think Laterally!

If you always do what you’ve always done.

You’ll continue to get the same results!

There is always more than one way to achieve your goals.

Dispensable or Indispensable?

Are you a Linchpin?

Passionate about your career and the job you do An artist – creative and don’t always follow the rulesAn outside the box thinker

According to Seth Godin –A linchpin is one of the essential building blocks of any organization. They invent, lead, connect and make things happen!

Social Media - What will work for me?

• LinkedIn• LinkedIn Groups• Blog• Google Alerts• Twitter• Facebook• Blog Talk Radio• YouTube

What’s Your Communication Style?

Orange Big picture thinker, think in “pods”, comfortable with conceptual ideas. Auditory

RedThink in terms of chapters, always need a beginning, middle and end. Kinesthetic

GreenOrganized, sequential in their thinking - specific and brief. Visual

Maslow vs. Messer - Hierarchy of Needs

Self-fulfillment

Egotistic Needs

Social Needs

Safety/Security

Basic Needs

Make The First Minute Count

• Start with a smile• Make eye contact• Introduce yourself• Let people know what you do• Explain what you need• Ask how you can help them• Say thank you• Keep in touch

Ten Rules for Good Networking

Be prepared

Be open minded

Don’t be afraid to ask

Treat everyone in your network as an equal

Build your network on information, not statusSay Thank You

Don’t waste your resources

Give without expectation

Set realistic and achievable goals

Be committed and determined to do

whatever it takes

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