Do You Have Rainmaker Complex Syndrome

This is an affliction I have had since childhood.  I'm not sure if it is hereditary, although my father never knew a stranger he would not help. I don't know of a doctor that has been able to suggest a cure, not that I have actually sought out medical advice. 

People who have encountered a person with rainmaker complex syndrome will most surely have a lasting experience, which is not easily forgotten.  Receivers of these rare encounters with  rainmaker complex syndrome persons, usually pass on their positive experience to others that cross their paths.

Do you have this ailment?  The symptoms for rainmaker complex syndrome are quite obvious:

1. Uncontrollable urge to help others succeed.
2. Hot flashes of people succeeding, whom you have helped. Understand the true life time benefits of Zig Ziglar's powerful statement, "if you help enough people get what they want, you will get what you want.
3. Intermittent bursts of collaborative conversation. Selflessly network as an engagement where you ask "how can I help you?" with no thought of reciprocal consideration.
4. Insatiable appetite to constantly make connections.  This may include putting your credibility on the line to personally connect a person who needs something with another person who has something.
5. Aching motivation for self improvement. Constantly improve interpersonal skills, like reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie or Skill with People by Les Giblin.
6. Taking a feverish interest in community, but understand local actions do impact the global community at large.
7. Be the person that friends, associates, coworkers, managers and executives go to for solving problems and making things happen.
8. Compulsively being proactive about taking action and initiative to insure team success.
9. Constant ear aches from listening, as a way to open opportunities that benefit individuals and companies around you.
10. High energy from recognizing your network as the most valuable human capital, which can be leveraged as a commodity to do good for people.
11. Severe spasms in being a person of influence at the center of your network.
12. Euphoric sensation results from striving to be a person who leads by example, while following the principles outlined in The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance by James A. Autry.
13. Keen vision in truly understanding readers are leaders, by using dead time to read 10 minutes a day.
14. Emanating warm charisma by projecting people into the success stratosphere, through generous doses of edification.

If you experience these symptoms or meet anyone with the ailment of rainmaker complex syndrome, I guarantee success is surely an outcome in the immediate future for both of you.

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How to Gain Strength from Your Network in Challenging Times (video)

I had the awesome opportunity of speaking at a fund raiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The theme was An Evening With Master Networkers.  If you're going through some challenging times, need a job, or new clients, in this video I share 3 lessons I learned on how to adapt, improvise and overcome.

Rod Colon was master of ceremonies, with Aaron and Laura Cohen as hosts.  I was humbled by the group of talented speakers telling their inspiring personal stories about their networking experiences creating success. View all speaker presentations.

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Selling is a By Product of Developing Relationships, Not a Goal

Networking strategist, Mindy Selinger, has a down home way of succinctly distilling the true essence of developing win-win-win human relationships.   Whether you are a networking newbie or power networker Mindy's book, Face to Face Networking Skills In a Social Media World, provides one of the best primers on networking.  In today's economy, networking as a survival tool and front page news are interwoven into daily conversations.  The shyest of professionals in a job search, employees and entrepreneurs can put their business into high gear, by reading this networking course contained in 90 pages.

Right up front, Mindy provides a cautionary tale that hits the reader in the gut.  Selling has nothing to do with networking.  Power networking authors like Rick Frishman (Networking Magic) and Keith Ferrazzi (Never Eat Alone) certainly give solid definitions on what networking is about.  Ms. Selinger deftly reintroduces John Naisbett's (Megatrends) definition that networking is "the exchange of ideas, information and resources".  No where in that statement does "selling" appear.  This means "selling" has no place in initial networking conversations.

The grand finale of reading this book is Mindy inviting readers to continue their networking training with lunch and learn continuing education, which she provides to groups.  Just like success, developing good relationship networking skills is an ongoing journey, which Mindy Selinger teaches so well.   She also provides venues to practice networking techniques around the United States with NetworkingEventFinders.com, which Mindy founded.

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