<b>The Place to Network:</b> Mind Over Matter

Visualization can help speed the process of learning a new skill ' networking, for instance. My coaching clients' main priority is often increasing their level of confidence and comfort in networking. They want to feel absolutely confident when walking into a room full of strangers at a cocktail party, or when going onstage to face a sea of people at a conference. They want to feel perfectly at ease, and perform at their best, when meeting a new client, or current clients ' especially someone who they know to be difficult. Visualization is a perfect tool for this: through guided imagery, you can ensure that whatever you're feeling is exactly those feelings you want; and that you're performing at the top of your abilities. Visualized behaviors can be practiced more easily, quickly and frequently than actual behaviors, so they're an ideal complement to actual, practice.

11 minute readFebruary 28, 2006 at 01:22 PM
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Olivia Fox Cabane
<b>The Place to Network:</b> Mind Over Matter

“Imagination is more important than science,” said Albert Einstein. As usual, Al knew what he was talking about ' the mind can do amazing feats when it truly believes something.

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