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Relationships are the New Bottom LineGurteen Community Cafe |
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The Liverpool based Gurteen Knowledge Cafe 0151 (Peter Bond) and the North West Coaching Circle (Steve Heneghan) have joined forces with sponsors Thomas International to present an opportunity to discuss the difference personality and emotional intelligence makes to building professional relationships. Register at http://knowledgecafe0151.eventbrite.com. The importance of networking in developing a business and a professional life has long been recognised. Numerous studies have now shown the positive association between networking and success. For sure, the Internet has made it easier to connect with others, but is it any easier now to create meaningful, purposeful, and trustful relationships? What is a network anyway? If you feel a personal network will have real value, how do you, specifically you, go about creating one, and get the most out of it? What networking strategy best fits your personality? Can you have more than one network? How many people do you need in your network to be effective, or is quality more important than quantity? Does the answer to the last question depend on your personal characteristics and preferences? Do you require a high level of 'emotional intelligence' to create and maintain successful relations? These are the questions you shall have the opportunity to explore using the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe format. There’s no doubt that effective networking can make a real difference to a company’s bottom-line, just think about the success of relationship marketing. On the other hand, what is not fully appreciated is just how great is the amount of time, money and emotional energy that is invested by individuals and organizations in building and managing networks. It is imperative, therefore, that networking, which is relationship building, be approached like any other business improvement process—with serious-mindedness. By networks, of course, I refer to what we are now calling social networks. Namely, the webs of relationships we weave at work and at play, through which we get things done together, acquire roles and personal identity, and within which we also express and confirm roles and identity. Real social networks have real relationships, and arise and evolve naturally from the interplay of everyday practices and conversations about them. As we work together, as we solve problems together, as we play together, we form complex networks of relationships that manifest themselves in many different ways. For example, we may speak of communities, societies, groups, teams, families, cultures, cults, feifs, and even civilisations and cultures. Less familiar will be knowledge networks, value networks, communities of practice, virtual organisations, and even networks as markets. These concepts are associated with new work practices emerging from a global, Internet enabled, knowledge creating and sharing economy. Note the places are limited and the first call has attracted a lot of interest so register soon.
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