Question 1
a.
• Identify your purpose. The purpose of networking is always going to be driven by your organisation's core business (or your personal professional development needs).
• Identify your goal. Simply stated, networking goals are what you need to achieve.
Goals give you long-term vision and provide short-term motivation. Goal setting helps you organise your time and your resources effectively. They provide the means by which you can track and evaluate whether the desired outcomes have been achieved.
• Determine the most appropriate network. The most appropriate network to use is determined by your goals. In most cases you'll need to use one, two or all three of your networking groups (personal, existing or professional) to achieve your goals.
• Method of contact. Once the networking goals have been determined the next step is to decide how to make contact with the prospects within the chosen network. This usually means determining the most appropriate communication device to use (eg letter, face to face meeting, email, or telephone call to name a few). However, before the method of contact can be finalised the type of approach has to be considered.
• Choose your approach. Your approach is how you ask for the business and/or persuade an employer or job seeker to act according to your advice. The most appropriate approach will depend on the networking situation, method of contact
(telephone or email) and the desired outcomes (goals). The approach used at a networking function for industry professionals, for example, is going to be vastly different to the approach taken to identify whether an existing employer has any new job vacancies.
b. Social Media, Conferences.
c. Through emailing my colleagues. So they can be updated with all our new contacts and relationships.
d. It makes the business grow faster, and we have more accurate information about the business. It also helps in our personal lives, making it