There is a wrong way and right way of networking for high performers! Do you want to know the right way to do this that leads to long term collaborations?
Whilst it is essential for us high performers to build and expand our network because it leads to new opportunities, collaborations and insights, it is just as necessary to deepen the ones already made.
Wouldn’t you agree networking needs to be about nurturing and deepening collaborations already made?
For me it is about QUALITY not quantity.
In the Online Space I find there is such a rush to build and expand networks and whilst this may be good for the ego, I have found for some high performers, it just burns us out.
Actually building on the already existing networks for me leads to something very worthwhile being created. A network becomes a community.
In the 24/7 world we live in, I have found that rushing to have the largest Facebook group or list of email subscribers or followers on Facebook or Instagram is obsessed about.
For me this rushing leads to burnout. An experience many high performers are prone to.
So for me the right way to build a network is to do it slowly.
Slowing down not enough high performers do.
Perhaps because we find it so difficult?
We are competing with other high performers.
For me having a large Facebook group takes time and it needs to be done with responsibility, ethically and fairly and with compassion.
Of course in person networking is the best. Having that face to face conversation, you remember more than engagement in a Facebook group, would you agree?
Facebook I find, whilst a really easy way to build and expand your network is also the quickest way to burn out.
Since I have been an Online Coach which has not been very long only…2018 and building my business, I have spoken to so many coaches and entrepreneurs who have told me how they feel so burnt out by Facebook and the extensive changes and it is the noisiest platform.
Whilst Facebook is not the only way of building networks and I would not recommend that you rely on it solely. This is whether you are an entrepreneur or creative or professional who uses it to make an impact in the world and provide a valuable service saving lives.
I would recommend you diversify and use other social media platforms, build your email list nd also hold in person activities to build these networks.
If you are like me and are building a business whilst working in a stressful and demanding career like social work, medicine, nursing, teaching, legal profession or public protection, then remember the right way of doing this is SLOWLY.
There is no need to rush.
In fact, rushing means you will make mistakes.
In fact, rushing means you will end up losing money.
I wish someone had told me this when I first started but in building a business and building networks and creating anything a book, a film, a play, TIME is needed.
Time to really collaborate.
Meaningful collaborations take TIME
The message though in the Online Space is that a business can be built in 30 days or 90 days.
Rome was not built in a day.
Neither is a business or a film or a book or a play.
This year I am deepening relationships already made last year.
This year I am wanting to know each and every member in my Facebook groups and each and everyone on my email list.
Again I will be doing this slowly.
I find if I reflect on my entrepreneurial journey that many of my Facebook groups have remained small of between 12 and 725.
As I said QUALITY is usually better than quantity because especially for us high performers, when we nurture the relationships we have built especially the collaborations in relation to our projects this leads to a fulfilled life. We feel fulfilled. When relationships are deepened by nurturing through time and energy, we feel fulfilled.
Would you agree?
Finding FULFILLMENT, FLOW and FREEDOM through networking
Taniya Hussain qualified as a Social Worker in 1991 from Coventry University in England, UK. She has been working on the front lines in London UK, consistently holding space for individuals and families in chaos and crisis for three decades especially, children and young people on the margins of society. Taniya studied Psycho-dynamic counselling from 1991 to 1993 at Goldsmiths College in London. Taniya met Sheikha Halima Krausen in 1992 and has been studying Islam with her ever since especially Mystical Islam, Tassawuf (Sufism) and walks on the Chisti path. Taniya fuses Jungian Pyschology and Islamic Psychology and this fusion can best be understood if you read her book Dancing with Darkness which is available on Amazon. It became a Best Seller on Amazon in the UK, U.S and France in April 2025. The book tells the story of Tamara Alvi, a fictional charachter and is a psychological thriller and a story of healing. Taniya started her coaching and consulting business in January 2018 and she works mainly with High Achievers and High Performers and High Performing Leaders, offering reflective spaces since 2018 and what she refers to as THE REFLECTIVE SPACE. Taniya since starting her busines discovered that she is a powerful healer and was shocked that clients were relieved from pain even though they have been diagnosed with a chronic illness. Taniya is delighted to have discovered Paceology, which is the detailed study of PACE. She is the first paceologist. She noticed when working with high performers when you slow down in one area of your life, this causes you to speed up in another area and vice cersa thus leading to increased levels of productivity, creativity, clarity and energy. She brands herself as the Muslim Alchemist because she really is The Muslim Alchemist as she guides you to transfom the base, in other words the shit that you have experienced into GOLD whether that is love of yourself or God or another human being or a healthier body or a life where you feel at peace and calm and fulfilled or more energy or more money. You definintely will feel lighter, more freer and more clearer even if you book one consultation with her or several sessions.
Taniya has a very holistic approach when working with individuals and works with you on multiple layers, the emotional, the psychological, the social, the physical, the mental and the spriritual. She uses stories from the Quran and the Bible when working with clients on a one to one basis or in group workshops as well as breathwork, body scanning, cognitive behavioural therapy, neuro linguistic programming, motivational interviewing. systems theory, neuro science. She is trained in multiple modalities as well as using her own Paceology and insists on offering her clients a trauma informed and trauma responsive service.
She is constantly integrating her knowledge of the Quran and Bible with her vast social work experience and training. Taniya's extensive ability of applying psycho-dynamic theory to organisational settings, teams and groups as well as to individuals results in those who attend her sessions or workshops as feeling lighter and more energised. Taniya uses skillfully her understanding of the Shadow, that Jung constantly talked about and her Mystical Training. She also has integrated her passion for inter-faith dialogue and the archetypes that Jung often refers to, come alive in her one to one sessions and her group workshops thus resulting in individuals feeling more freer and fulfilled after they stop working with her. Taniya just does not provide clarity she WAKES you up to. Taniya has a great skill in being able to see the blind spots in others and does this in a non judgemental way and a way that you feel safe. She also "untangles energetic knots" (a term she uses for Shadow) in your body to promote healing from mental and physical disease. Clients usually are healed in a short amount of time because she pinpoints the memory, the event, the thought that first caused the disease. She also provides one to one sessios or training workshops to social work teams, school, secure and prison estate on youth justice, knife crime prevention as well asidentification and prevention of early onset of burnout.
Taniya has three sons, who were born in 1996, 2001 and 200 and lives in Surrey, England and when she is not coaching or writing songs, blogs and poems, she loves to spend time, travelling, walking, listening to music, watching films or playing cricket.
She speaks fluent English and Urdu and basic German and French and is learning Arabic and Hebrew.
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