Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Molly Beck
The tone of the email:
Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. —SHERYL SANDBERG, LEAN IN
Don’t give up too soon.
Try to keep in touch with each person you’ve Reached Out to and gotten a Response One (“Thanks for the gifts”) that turned into a conversation or a Response Two (“Thanks for the gifts; happy to help with your favor”) about every six months.
The best way to remember to keep in touch with Targets is to put a note on your calendar for six months after your last email in the chain.
TL; DR: MANAGING A BUSY OR A QUIET INBOX
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. —FAMOUS PROVERB
Deciding you will do a Reach Out every workday will help you quit “arguing” with yourself about whether today is the day, or tomorrow is—it will just become an automatic habit.
Outs using a free service such as Boomerang for Gmail. (Boomerang also has cool features such as Respondable, which can tell you how likely your email is to get a response by looking at the subject length, word count, question count, and more of each email you send.)
Identifying Targets
My problem usually isn’t a lack of people to Reach Out to; instead it’s forgetting the people I was momentarily excited about contacting and then their names got lost in my brain.
AN (IN)COMPLETE LIST OF PEOPLE YOU CAN RO TO INCLUDES
The Best Time to RO
midmorning on a weekday in the Target’s time zone. If that’s not possible, try to keep it between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Basic Reach Out Tracker
A Basic Reach Out Tracker is a spreadsheet that generally includes columns for:
For the Career Inspiration Tracker, first include all the columns that are on the Basic Reach Out Tracker
you. Studying and identifying potential patterns in these extra columns among people in your industry whom you admire will inspire you to emulate those patterns and help you figure out what your next step might be. Alana Strassfield
Project Help Tracker
On the other hand, if you’re looking for a tracker that will help organize your network so you can quickly see who can help you with specific tasks, you can also jazz up the Basic Reach Out Tracker to create the Project Help Tracker.
first include all the columns that are on the Basic Reach Out Tracker (you can leave the Reaching Out rows blank if you haven’t Reached Out yet).
additional columns based on what an individual’s area of expertise is, how the person could possibly help you now or in the future, and what Borrowed Connected ROs the person might offer to accelerate your career or company’s growth.
To get you started, you can find examples of each tracker
First, a fast reply to someone’s Reach Out is one of the easiest ways to be seen as responsive, which is a hugely valued trait in the workplace.
Start Your Own Reach Out Initiative
SAVE IT FOR FRIDAY
THE TWO-MINUTE RULE
ONLY THE ABSOLUTES
Slack.
I use assistant.to (an
awesome free tool for Gmail) to eliminate back and forth on ...
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20-MINUTE BREAKS
USE ORGANIZING CATEGORIES
ALWAYS INBOX ZERO
schedule my email to automatically check once every 30 minutes,
