Presented in Saskatoon April 5th for the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists. An amazing crowd, a wonderful evening, and I got to meet some amazing people after.

1. Why
Networking
Sucks(And how you can make it awesome!)

2. Networking
doesn’t suck,
your attitude
does!

3. “Ways to stay
employed in the
future!”

7. I went to a
“networking
seminar” in
University

8. -Wear a suit
-Don’t drink
-Only speak when
spoken to
-Get/give out business
cards

9. -Wear a suit
-Don’t
drink?!?-Only speak when spoken to
-Get/give out business cards

10. How do you meet
new people?

17. Trivia!

18. What app, with
only 13 employees
sold to Facebook
for $1 Billion
dollars?

19. Instagram

21. What’s
changed?

25. Always hiring but
sorry we don’t
accept resumes

31. Myths About Networking

35. “Be Interesting!”

36. Be
Interesting
Interested!

38. “Give your business
card out as soon as
you possibly can!”

40. “Make sure to talk
as much as you can!”

41. Seek first to
understand, then to
be understood.
-Steven Covey

42. SHUT UP!

43. The
Liking
Principle

47. How are you
growing your
tribe?

48. Social Media?
Email?
A Call?
Lunch?
Frozen Yogurt?
A gift in the mail?

49. It’s easy to send a generic
Christmas card to people
each year, but that
doesn’t build loyalty.
Actually caring does.

50. It’s bigger than you.

51. Change doesn’t
just happen,
people create
change.

57. Networking
Making new friends

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