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Strengthening Your Network: Enhancing Professional Relationships Dr. Matthew Bowler — Director of the MBA Program and Associate Professor of Management in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University
The key to a properly structured professional network lies in the types of relational ties that we have and can develop. This seminar will demonstrate the importance of relationships in building your career, emphasize the benefits of a properly structured professional network, and examine how to develop the right types of relationships with the right kinds of people. This seminar is sponsored by the Department of Management and the Center for the Future of Work in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Participants earn 0.6 continuing education units (CEUs) upon completion of this seminar.
SEMINAR OUTLINE
I. Introduction
A. Value of a professional network B. It’s a small world
II. Network basics and assessment
A. How it works B. Forms of relations C. Assessing your network Types of relationships and their value
III.
A. Having a broker B. Being a broker
IV. How to develop and manage relationships V. Knowledge of networks
A. Do you know what you think you know? B. Who is connected to whom? C. Using what you know Conclusion
VI.
A. Pitfalls B. Summary
Develops talent | Interpersonal savvy | Builds networks | Self-development » KORN FERRY COMPETENCIES
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