Connecting with people outside your firm is essential to your health, wellbeing, and business. When you’re running a firm, though, this is something that can easily take a backseat to daily operations. Before you know it, you’re trying to remember the last time you talked with someone about something other than a project. In this episode, we offer some tips on building relationships outside of the office.

Highlights

• Turn off your sales mode
• Be authentic
• Ask about the other person
• Put yourself in environments where you’re already comfortable
• Accept that relationships of any kind take time to build
• Building relationships is not the same as networking

Episode Resources

• Connect with Brian and Patience Jones
• https://graphicmachine.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/graphicmachine/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/graphicmachine/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/patiencejones/