 "If you have come to help me,you are vasting
your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together" -
thoughts of an anonymous aborigin woman from Australia.
Personal chemistry, friendship,fellowship, trust, respect and peer
relationships are the powerful forces in human relations. NETWORKS share in common the
opportunity to make contact and develop relationships, both personal and professional.
Conventional organizational structure necessary to conduct the businesses might present many
invisible barriers to the human exchange and information flow.
Networking links people, not institutions. NETWORKS are one-on-one linkages with other
people who really know and/or have a common interest. The essence of successful networking
and building of intelligence depends upon the values and people who choose to be together to develop
themselves or their organisation. Networks offer cooperation rather than competition.
Networking is the process of
developing and using your contacts. It is also linking the
people you know to the people the others know.
"Good Weavers" tie together different networks in a
conscious way. They want to combine their resources to
implement appropriate solutions as quickly, simply and efficiently as
possible. It is up to oneself to use her imagination, her creativity and
her common sense to develop the right "tools". There are few
recipes. It is the LEARNING that matters. In one workshop we
discussed, what we have gained from belonging to a network.
Following answers came out: - friendship, access to knowledge
outside own sphere, chance for development, energy, stimulus for
new development, support through difficulty and difficult times
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Networks also die easily.
A NETWORK works when there is a permanent flow of information and
also inspiration. Networking means
possibility to provide and get the
information needed to/from an other
person and not only lipservice,
which, unfortunately, is widely used.
Nowadays, and especially in the
future, information is power. The
larger your network, the better your
chance of finding out exactly what
you need to know. And knowing whom to call is almost as good as
knowing! Networkers can accumulate
influence or power by control of
information and, of course, by
learning. When Networking following
startups might help you: - define
yourself as a resource, identify your
missing resources, clarify the
purpose of Networking wanted and
needed, start a repository for your
information and ideas.
Networking IS a learned skill. We
aren't born knowing how to do it
successfully. Let us smile, act,
share, interact, reach out and inquire
together and we shall be informed!
The final bonus will be a wealth of
information in diversity.
AFTER YOU HAVE WORKED HARD TO GET WHAT YOU WANT, TAKE THE TIME TO ENJOY IT!
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