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Five Tips to Instantly Warm Up Meetings and Interviews

Guest post by: Keith Ferrazzi

Article Overview: Never ever, walk into a meeting cold. Because cold is how you'll leave it.

Five Tips to Instantly Warm Up Meetings and Interviews

Never ever, walk into a meeting cold. Because cold is how you'll leave it.

Instead, walk in ready to spread around what I call "universal currency" - ways to be generous and spread goodwill to anyone that we meet. Generosity is the first step to warming up to a relationship.

Universal currency is particularly important at first meetings and interviews, where even if you do your homework, you may be limited in your background knowledge.

Here are five forms of universal currency and suggestions for how to put them into play.

1. Give compliments and admiration freely. Make sure they are genuine. Not genuine = Not generous.

2. Be a knowledge broker. Read everything, talk to everyone, be everywhere - particularly in regard to your business or industry. Don't rely on others or be passive about it; become an absolute expert by taking the lead.

For the other three suggestions, click through to the blog! And please, use the comments section to share your own best tips for getting past business as usual.

Warmest,

Keith

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