Developing Internal Relationships (The When & How) - Part 2

Submitted by mauzenne on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 02:32.
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This cast gives a guide for when to develop the relationships you identified in the Developing Internal Relationships – The Where cast.

In our first Developing Internal Relationships cast we helped you identify your current network and judge how effective it was. We also helped you identify the people you need to meet in order to round out your network.

When you listened to that cast, you might have asked: if I haven't come across those people yet, how am I going to meet them? In this cast, we want to give you some ideas for when and how you can start those relationships.


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Submitted by kyleskrinak on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 21:29.

Value of sports knowledge and "mixing it up."

I love all your podcasts, despite being happily self-employed and hope not to work at a large organization any time soon. I do want to tweak this podcast's advice about sports knowledge. The scenario involved a professional without baseball knowledge, and her boss who was a baseball fan. She rued her lack of making small-talk inroads with her boss. Mike said, albeit hesitantly, "learn baseball."

I say; "you could do that, but there are far more effective ways to establish relationships and stay true to yourself." As a 48 year-old whom has zero interest in professional sports of any stripe, and I have nothing to glean nor add to such a discussion. Polite nodding gets me through most of it. However, everybody has a passion: a faith, hobby, civic or political involvement, house repairs; the list is rather endless. You can take the "go Red Sox" (or whoever, I don't care) tact and be forgettable in your ubiquity. Or, you can find out something more meaningful about your boss/peer/report. It's the gregarious "road less traveled," and it makes all the difference.