Actions can speak much louder than words on #LinkedIn

You may have seen this beautiful video (and it's worth seeing again and again), but JIC you missed it, you will see true human compassion when a boys' soccer team from Spain defeated another team from Japan. The short video is here.

Actions and/or words: sportsmanship, empathy, and consolation. The Spanish boys' faces and gestures are so powerful, even when there is seemingly no common language.?

My LinkedIn tie-in for this video? Act well as a professional; be upright in doing so:

• Give of yourself: openly offer others "atta-boys" and "atta-girls" when the recipients succeed and even when they do not. Go beyond a simple click of "like;" add a personal comment or two to congratulate.
• Be supportive of your entourage of connections and help when you can by curating articles and sharing thoughts you come across, knowing that effort is small but can be beneficial to others.
• Offer an introduction of one of your colleagues to a connection (LinkedIn makes this easy) as a gesture of faith and friendship; this can be so meaningful and empowering to the recipient, and to your colleague. Double whammy.
• Endorse someone for a skill they demonstrate well. One click.

Any and all are simple actions. A click or two; a moment of your time.

Yes, actions are powerful. Words are too. Try to combine them both in the right situations:

• Offer an unsolicited recommendation to others who have gone above and beyond. They will forever remember this.
• Rewrite an older recommendation you gave a while ago with refreshed and more demonstrative anecdotes to show how well the connection has performed recently.
• Think outside the box and write a LinkedIn Post about a situation in which you cooperated with another professional (and name that person in the body of the Post using the @and then their name). That way the update heralding the Post appears on their profile and all their connections' home pages. These names also appear in the worldwide Post distribution on LinkedIn. Build followers this way.

Language is verbal and gestural. Think of what a simple gesture can do. Be economical and meaningful, like that Spanish kid who hugs and pats each Japanese kid on the cheek and powerfully conveys "you did great-it's all right," with the right amount and quality of words, or no words at all.

Bravo.

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About Marc W. Halpert, LinkedIn Trainer and Evangelist

I am a “multi-preneur,” (www.dhirubhai.net/in/marchalpert) having started 3 companies, all of which I continue to operate. My latest business, connect2collaborate, spreads my LinkedIn and networking evangelism worldwide to train and coach others to better explain their brand and positioning on their LinkedIn profile pages:

• as an “evangelist” recognized by LinkedIn to help nonprofits cultivate talent pool, volunteers, boards and corporate sponsors.
• as a LinkedIn corporate trainer
• as a coach helping professional practitoners use LinkedIn to better achieve their goals.
• as a high-energy speaker at conferences.
• as a volunteer coaching and teaching the underemployed to master new better career objectives.

I blog daily on LinkedIn topics to encourage readers towards a more beneficial use of this amazing tool. I speak about LinkedIn at public events and private corporate sessions too. I was very pleased to be named to the LinkedIn 200 and my book for the American Bar Association on LinkedIn marketing techniques for law and professional practice firms, consultants, and multipreneurs will be published in fourth quarter 2016.

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