{"id":371,"date":"2012-04-23T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:13:35","slug":"the-secret-to-successful-networking-is-a-four-letter-word-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/the-secret-to-successful-networking-is-a-four-letter-word-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to Successful Networking is a Four Letter Word: Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard University study shows that 15% of the reason a person gets a job, keeps a job, or advances in a job is related to technical skills and job\u00a0knowledge\u2026 85% has to do with people skills.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent Forbes Magazine article, <a title=\"The Secret to Success is a Four Letter Word\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/work-in-progress\/2012\/04\/20\/the-secret-to-successful-networking-is-a-four-letter-word\/\">The Secret to Successful Networking is a Four Letter Word<\/a>, Mindy Lockard explains the keys to good networking &#8212; effective conversations. <em>Whether it\u2019s official business or social, making conversations can make or break how we build a network of people to call on as we make our journey up the professional ladder.<\/em> The four things she outlines are: 1) Work your name; 2) Work to remember names; 3) Work to know others; 4) Work to help others connect.<\/p>\n<p>And this can be very easy and efficient to do when you have LetsLunch here to help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard University study shows that 15% of the reason a person gets a job, keeps a job, or advances in a job is related to technical skills and job\u00a0knowledge\u2026 85% has to do with people skills. In a recent Forbes Magazine article, The Secret to Successful Networking is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}