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Networking with Lions, Elks and Moose, Oh My! – Proven Places to Nework (Part III)

Part One of Proven Places to Network
Part Two of Proven Places to Network

Funny Video from Dean on Remembering Names!!

11. Kiwanis, Rotary, AMBUCS, Lions, Elks, Moose
(I know there is an animal joke in there somewhere.) Do good for the community while you build relationships. Rock-solid plan. Here it really pays to serve as a leader.

12.  Workshops, Classes, and Seminars
Take every chance to learn more and make yourself better. Other people committed to jogging the road to success will be there too. Contribute ideas. Ask questions. Look for a list of upcoming workshops in your local business journal’s calendar of events. Expect a higher grade of professionals at the workshops and seminars that are sponsored by area business journals.

13. College Associations
Having common backgrounds makes for easy conversations and many really get a kick out of helping an alum of their university.

14. Leads Groups
The great thing about leads groups is that they are focused on lead generation for their members. Expect events held by leads groups to be more intense than the rest of the networking options on this list.Make sure you check out the membership roster before you join. If there are some members who are in your line of work, you will probably want to join another leads group. They may not even let you join if there is already someone in your category. Also, find out what the member obligations are, and ask some of the members how much business they have generated from being a member.

15. Cultural Events
Meet some people with style and taste. Theater, symphony, art exhibits, rodeos, tractor pulls…

 16. Volunteer
A great way to gain visibility and develop relationships is through volunteering with any of the above-listed groups. Almost all these groups could use a hand. Step out and step up. Look for volunteer jobs that will provide you opportunities to show off your skills and personality, and meet and interact with new contacts. You increase your impact as well as the potential for new contacts when you actively participate.

Volunteer to:
- Serve on committees. You can help shape the association’s policy, as well as work closely with and learn from other experts.

- Chair a committee or run for office. Let people experience your leadership, communication, and organizational skills in action.

- Work the reception desk. You will meet people as they sign in.

- Help direct people to the right rooms at a large convention (often called being a people mover).

- Be a greeter. The greeter spot is ideal for the self-diagnosed shy, because the title alone forces you to connect. Plus, as a greeter there is an automatic assumption that you are “in the know” and others will naturally come to you for info and help.

- Join the board. You will connect with key industry leaders and gain a reputation as a leader yourself.

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An authority on harnessing human potential and creating authentic business growth, Dean Lindsay is an engaging and highly sought-after business consultant and speaker.   Dean is an active member of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy and the American Society of Training and Development.

Each of Dean Lindsay’s programs (whether a motivational keynote, convention breakout or interactive boot camp), contain powerful and useful insight on workplace performance, building priceless business relationships, dealing with change, communication, and business growth that can be customized for sales professionals, leadership teams, customer service representatives, or those in management positions.

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Dean’s unique and humorous style captivates and inspires audiences to take positive action. Dean’s practical strategies, “street tested” techniques and proven concepts increase productivity, boost sales, strengthen employee morale along with customer loyalty, and much more.

Using this trademarked 6 Ps of Progress, Dean Lindsay is a motivational keynote speaker that delivers programs that help companies realize greater productivity, while creating a rewarding work environment for all team members.

With his refreshingly daring, imaginative and highly effective style, Dean Lindsay has the rare ability delivering profitable, valued and important information to a wide variety of audiences even in the midst of challenging economic times or negative change. Dean Lindsay’s process for creating customized content includes:

• Researching your industry, company and organization

• Having discussions with key professionals in your organization

• Conducting brief phone interviews with top performers

Dean Lindsay knows that personal and professional progress is by design, not chance. He also knows that personal and professional progress is directly correlated to the progress you provide others and is therefore dedicated to your organization’s progress.

A Baker’s Dozen (plus 1) Things about Dean Lindsay, Author and Motivational Business Keynote Speaker

1. Featured contributor to Executive Travel, Sales and Service Excellence and the American Management Association’s Moving Ahead magazine as well as the nationally distributed audio publication Selling Power Live

2. Spotlighted as an OUTSTANDING SPEAKER by the International Association of Speakers Bureaus

3. Served as Guest Lecturer to International Customer Management Institute as well as both the UCLA and University of Dallas MBA programs

4. Delivers Killer Motivational Keynotes, Breakouts, General Session Presentations, and Interactive Boot Camps that Empower PROGRESS in Sales, Service and Workplace Performance

5. Cum laude graduate of the University of North Texas and serves on the Executive Advisory Board for UNT’s Department of Marketing and Logistics and the Board of Directors of the UNT Alumni Association

6. Recognized as a ‘Sales-and-Networking Guru’ by the Dallas Business Journal

7. Author of The Progress Challenge: Working and Winning in a World of Change – “a much needed kick in the pants for all of us… What an enlightening book!” — Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager®

8. Author of Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships ( Recommended Reading by United Professional Sales Association and Profit magazine). “Perhaps the most powerful way to leverage and multiply your talent and ability is by expanding your personal and business network. This book SHOWS YOU HOW.” – Brian Tracy, Sales Training Legend

9. Hailed as a ‘Master of Progress’ by Jay Conrad Levinson (the father of Guerrilla Marketing)

10. Avid runner and has completed the Stockholm Marathon in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Motorola Marathon in Austin, Texas.

11. Clients range from Fortune 100 companies to budding entrepreneurs, and from national and state associations to successful small businesses on both sides of the Atlantic.

12. Lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas , with his wife Lena and their two strong and wonderfully nutty daughters, Sofia and Ella.

13. Sees an important connection between sales, motivation, solid customer care and leadership. All are achieved by effectively positioning ideas, recommendations, solutions, products, services – even ourselves – as PROGRESS in minds of those we wish to inspire to action. All must be positioned as Progress and NOT Change. It is natural to resist change but we embrace PROGRESS. All progress is change but not all change is PROGRESS. Dean helps you become a Progress Agent and “BE PROGRESS”.

14. Refreshingly daring, imaginative, and a LOT OF FUN!! — Be sure and watch Dean’s speaker demo above —

“Dean Lindsay is one sharp and funny guy. I have been in the business arena for over forty years and we have needed his unique voice for far too long.”
– Max Derden,
Partner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP

“Dean Lindsay is truly one of the best and most insightful speakers out there. I have hired him, heard him and read his work. He is always top notch with profitable tips and strategies – plus he is fun to watch. Dean Lindsay rocks!”
– Paul Rosowski
Regional VP – Central, Teknion

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