Description:
This colorful fold-out tool teaches employees and managers the Five
"Knows" of Networking. Connections: A Networking Map
helps individuals build a map that ties their personal and professional
needs to their existing and future networks. The tool can also be
used in mentoring programs, outplacement counseling, and teambuilding.
Objectives:
An individual's best investment in their career
planning is in relationships: the ability to network is essential.
Solid networking is a conscious, on-going, reciprocal process; it's
a science as much as an art. This hands-on tool helps people examine
their essential relationships in order to grow and maintain a network
to meet current needs and create future opportunities.
Outcomes:
- Stimulates cooperation
and interchange of ideas so that organizational resources are best
utilized.
- Supports the sharing
of information, experience and knowledge to speed the acquisition
of new skills.
Length of Time to Complete:
20 - 30 minutes.
Facilitator's Guide:
A Facilitator's Guide
is available to assist in training this tool as a "stand-alone" product.