Manual № 74 · Professional relationships and networking

ThePeopleYouKnow

The manual for professional relationships and networking.

Most opportunities arrive through people you barely know. That is good news.

12 modules — for the person who finds networking distasteful and knows it matters anyway

  1. 01What a Network Actually Is
  2. 02Where This Advice Stops Being Enough
  3. 03The People You Barely Know
  4. 04Why This Feels Dirty
  5. 05The Introvert's Version
  6. 06Talking to Someone Senior Without an Agenda
  1. 07The Informational Conversation
  2. 08Keeping In Touch, and What Giving First Actually Buys
  3. 09Asking For Something
  4. 10The Dormant Tie
  5. 11Rooms and Feeds, Proportionately
  6. 12A Plan of a Manageable Size

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how good the evidence for it actually is. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01The Map of Who You Already Know
  2. 02Strong, Weak, and Too Weak
  3. 03The Bridge
  4. 04The Ladder
  5. 05If Then
  6. 06The Four Sentence Message
  7. 07The Prediction Log
  1. 08Ask Small, Ask Specific
  2. 09The Warm Close
  3. 10The Ten Minute Pass
  4. 11Reawakening a Dormant Tie
  5. 12Giving Without Bookkeeping
  6. 13The Energy Budget
  7. 14The One Page Plan

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.