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Table 6-1 Growing Your Strategic Network

Value in Cultivating Commitments and
Sphere of and Sustaining These Specific Actions (and
Relationship Who? Relationships Deadline)

Current Role
Areas of Focus?

Career/Personal
Development

Areas of Focus?

Outside of Your
Organization
Areas of Focus?

next promotion. Outside of work, you might be involved in recruit-
ing a new director for a nonprofit board you sit on.
Who: Identify two or three people who are in your network, or who
should be in your network, who would be potentially helpful to
you in moving closer to that goal.
Value in Cultivating and Sustaining These Relationships: This is
where you get granular. Articulate to yourself how specifically
you believe each person might add value to the sphere where
you’ve placed them. And don’t forget to think of each one as a
two-way relationship. Why might you be important to each of
these people? And, how can you both benefit from establishing
or furthering a relationship?