Building Relationships & Opportunities for Success
Program Titles
- 75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way You Work: Shake-Em-Up Questions to Open Meetings, Ignite Discussion, and Spark Creativity
- Angels in the Workplace: Stories and Inspirations for Creating a New World of Work
- Share tips, form alliances, and build relationships.
- Improve employee collaboration via intra-company networking.
Melissa Giovagnoli Wilson shares tips, forms alliances, and builds relationships. The idea is to lead with professional values toward life and business. As a networking expert, Wilson is sought out by blue-chip companies such as Motorola, Disney, and Accenture to help them improve employee collaboration via intra-company networking.
“Melissa says. After interviewing Motorola’s chief marketing officer for an earlier book about strategic alliances, they decided to team up for a book on the importance of business relationships. The duo began exploring the mechanics of successful relationship-building efforts.
It is based on identifying values, forming primary and secondary circles of like-valued people, and creating opportunities for success.
“This is a catalytic, evangelistic process,”
“It helps people understand the idea of networks in general. It means blending business relationships with personal relationships.”
What are the components of Wilson’s grassroots approach to building a successful cause?
1. Create a community.
By definition, it is a community of communities, and Giovagnoli has fostered their development worldwide. As a direct or indirect community leader, she can demonstrate the mastery of her subject matter to others. As a result, the more people you know, especially in mini-communities of like-minded people, the more you can grow your business (or find a job or meet people who share similar interests). “Community can be built or exist on different levels; two or more individuals are gathered together for a common purpose.
2. Rally people around a cause.
Her cause is the importance of relationships. “We’re in the midst of a global economy, and if you have the right relationship with the world, the business will grow.”
For the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their jobs, the cold realization that they lack an extended support network can be lonely and costly.
3. Make it easy to experience.
It is part process, part experiential. (For the uninitiated, joining a circle is much like creating a relationship: The more you put into it, the more it gives back.)
Until recently, circles were breakfast or lunch affairs held in an office conference room or restaurant. Now, circles have gone social with “Gourmet Dinner” events.
Wilson is planning circles based on an industry (say, healthcare) or job title (like Chief Marketing Officer).
4. Build the buzz.
Giovagnoli brings people together and gets them talking.
In comparing gathering stacks of business cards at networking events, “It’s not a numbers game when it comes to finding a job or building business; it’s about relationships.”
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- Noteworthy social networking strategies companies have used to innovate new products and services.
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- The realities and myths involved in using social networks to innovate.
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- The key components required to make social networking innovation successful.
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- How to keep the “social” in social networking. The top strategies for social networking are also easy to implement and cost-effective.
- What the future holds in social media.
Books by Melissa Giovagnoli Wilson
- Networlding: Building Relationships and Opportunities for Success
- 75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way You Work: Shake-Em-Up Questions to Open Meetings, Ignite Discussion, and Spark Creativity
- Angels in the Workplace: Stories and Inspirations for Creating a New World of Work
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