Networking

In this changing and demand world, building and managing good network in your organization and outside your network are essentials.  Some ideas tips an traps:

ideas :

• Contacting each other just to "stay in touch" and keeping the lines of communications open
• Actively listening to each other to gain a better understanding of multiple points of view
• Resolving differences without having winners and losers
• Using power and influence for mutual benefit
• Keeping commitments made to one another
• Sharing resources and ideas
• Investing time to get to know one another's nonworker interests
• Recognizing contributions made by others

Tips

• Use "we", versus "I".
• Close the loop. Don't forget to share the results of your liaison activity. Bring information back to the group.
• Keep notes, agreements, progress reports, measurements, etc., in a publicly accessible forum. Information should flow both upward and downward.

Traps

• Following your personal agenda. Remember the objective is to meet the larger organizational goals. Check your personal or team agendas against those of the organization to make sure they are consistent.
• Breaking the rules you don't like. You may give permission to your team to ignore the boundaries, but remember, you will be held accountable.
• Spending too much time looking for others to remove barriers. At times, it is better to blaze a new path with your own team resources.