Exploding Your

Caribbean Network

Francis Wade
Framework Consulting
High-Stake Interventions
June 20, 2008

UTECH CEODL
 Who You Know - Always Been Important

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 You Want to Grow and Assure Your Future

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 • Times are tough
for us here in
Jamaica
• The Caribbean is
shrinking, and we
are wide open for
business

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 A Network Beyond the Boundaries

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 Who is the kind of
person that can build
a quality network
anywhere?

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 Why? : To ensure the
safety of your career

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 Being Different

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 Don’t Follow the “Research”

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 Be careful of
“good”

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 Natural Approach

A Passion for What You Do

vs. What You Are “Good At”

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 Experiment
Say “Yes”
Be open
Search for passion

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 Caribbean-ize Your Career

Barbados

GDP per
Jamaica
country

Trinidad
Guyana

Source: The CIA World Factbook 2005

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 Source: The CIA World Factbook 2005

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 A “Miami Mind”
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 The “Small Islands”

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 Safety:
being passionate

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 Create Opportunities to Learn
and Grow

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 “Networking” ?

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 “Networking” ?

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 Outgoing, Confident, Pretty

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 Be authentic

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 Introspection:

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 Not Me

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 Who You Know

Catholicism

Cricket

Cooking

Who You Are -- Could you become an expert?

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 1. Research It

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 Networking? 2. Write
About It

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 Beyond email…
• Blog ($0) • E-zine ($0)

• E-group ($0) • E-book ($0)

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 An e-group

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 An e-book

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 An e-zine

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 A blog

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 More!
• Skype ($0) • The next thing
(US$?)

• MagicJack (US$50)

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Planning
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Your Next Vacation / Business Trip?
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To Enjoy Yourself, Your Work, Your Colleagues

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 Explode Your Network

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 Make “net-friends” - the only way

Not your neighbours

• Or your colleagues
• Or your pen-pals
• Or your high-school friends
• Or your customers
• Or your clients

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 A Caribbean distrust
of “people
whose face I can’t
see”

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A Scare

Devon
“Michael
“Andrew
SharonSmith
Brown
Chin”
Singh“
Kingston
Ardenne
Framework

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 Everyone can find “something” about you

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 Creating a
Self-Portrait
“On-Purpose”

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 Stay in Touch
• Send updates
• New content you have developed
• Ask after people and share something
personal
• Send greeting cards and remember birthdays
• Blend personal and social lives
___________
$$$

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 Ask for Referrals

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 Principles for Exploding Your Network

• Find net-friends
• Stay in touch with them
• Ask for referrals

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 Simply the best tool - $(0)

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 A Glimpse at My Network

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 A Glimpse
at my

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 Linked in - an alternative

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 Online Demo

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 Email your friends and
Email your friends and
ask who they know that
ask who they know that
likes to talk about __
likes to talk about
cricket ___
_________________

Google people
Google people across
across the
the
region who
region who are
are interested
interested
in __cricket_____
in _________________

Find
Find or
or start
start an
an online
online
discussion
discussion group
group on on
_________________
__cricket _______
Sign up for Skype so you
Signtalk
can up for
for free
Skype so you
about
can talk for free about
________________
__ cricket ____

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 Explode Your Network

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 No network = no safety

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Become someone who can build a network anywhere
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 Questions

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