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Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 9 Today, I'll close out this series. The best-practices we’ve covered give you a great foundation for building, leveraging and sustaining a truly powerful professional netwo…lnkd.in/gBUnwERV lnkd.in/gXgwB-bd

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 8 A strong professional network is a great asset and a powerful tool that can support, expand and sustain your success. But, we should never forget that our network is ultim…lnkd.in/gwxfGucP lnkd.in/gVn-etH6

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 7 Each time you engage with your network you are also building (or eroding) your reputation. Paying attention to professional etiquette goes a long way toward adding value a…lnkd.in/ggqReZDK lnkd.in/gk5dsnZM

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 6 Who of us wants to watch a game where everyone stands on the sidelines? Your network offers an arena where value comes from active participation. Get in the game. Step onto the field. Show collea…lnkd.in/ggCSWMM5

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 5 Some of the most underutilized ways to leverage your connections and colleagues come from engaging the internal aspects of your network. This week we focus on three inside…lnkd.in/ghePf5wr lnkd.in/gNrqiyjV

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 4 Seeds and relationships must be nurtured in order to grow strong and bear fruit. After you make a new connection it will need some periodic tending if you want to reap the…lnkd.in/g5A7UE5q lnkd.in/gGrt2rSj

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 3. We know that peer-to-peer discussion and sharing can often provide a more effective and less expensive way to improve performance and reduce risks. You can use your profes…lnkd.in/g7VPF3kW lnkd.in/gs-q5FbW

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 2. It’s important to use your network to get a more complete view of issues, problems and solutions. Experience is generally the key to successfully navigating difficult si…lnkd.in/g7RWvbhm lnkd.in/gGsUq75Q

Best Practices For A Powerful Professional Network: Part 1. When you share insight and experience with peers, it’s often a faster, cheaper way to improve performance throughout your organization. Over the next several weeks I’ll…lnkd.in/gB-3zEQv lnkd.in/gtVyQvDs

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Thanks for following me as I've been sharing 24 Tips For How To Increase The Power of Your Professional Network. Here's a link to get a copy of the full white paper you can save and share and immediate access to all 24 Tips online.…lnkd.in/gx8xPZpK lnkd.in/gYP2AgAt

TIP #24: SHARE IT NOW. When you run across a valuable article, webcast, book or blog don’t keep it to yourself. Share the information while it’s fresh. We all have something worth sharing stemming from the information we consume, the events we experience…lnkd.in/g5QXZThE

TIP #23: BUILD A BOARD. Benchmarks, research and industry best-practices all help shape strategic decisions. But to be truly valuable, information must be accompanied by insight, perspective and experience. Understanding how information applies in your en…lnkd.in/guwbz6Hk

TIP #22: THINK GLOBALLY. Collaboration and success increasingly involves resources that are in the office, @home, and international. Colleagues and teams are scattered across countries, time zones, and cultures. Leading a global team requires increased s…lnkd.in/dCiuvkjy

TIP #21: GET YOUR TEAM INVOLVED. You can expand the value of your network dramatically by getting your team engaged. An initial connection between senior leaders can be expanded to bring together members of both leadership teams. Remember to connect funct…lnkd.in/g4aBGbGW

TIP #20: BE TRUSTWORTHY. Trust is a requirement for any network to be truly valuable. Never share confidential information you’ve acquired through your network unless you have permission to do so. If you’re not sure whether a piece of information is confi…lnkd.in/gstCyRZt

TIP #19: SEEK DIVERSITY. A dynamic network will embrace a broad spectrum of people and perspectives. Age, experience, industries, gender, culture, ethnic background all contribute to the range and richness of the ideas in your network. Diversity enables u…lnkd.in/gQrfw_2j

TIP #17: BUILD A STRONG INTERNAL NETWORK. It’s just as important to build relationships within your current organization as it is to do so with external colleagues. Having a strong internal network will help you impact your current organization and can pr…lnkd.in/gb9DdEXM

TIP #16: GET THE FULL PICTURE. A strong professional network should provide a rich ecosystem of knowledge and experience. It should include a full spectrum of resources and insight embracing colleagues, consultants, thought leaders, service providers, ana…lnkd.in/gcU6Kh8F