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You Are Your Career
You Are Your Career
• Be Connected
• Being connected means having many good working relationships and
interpersonal contacts and being a team player with strong interpersonal
skills.
• Interpersonal skills are the skills required to effectively communicate,
interact, and work with individuals and groups.
• For example, those who want to become partners in professional service
organizations like accounting, advertising, and consulting firms strive
constantly to build a network of contacts.
• Building a network of contacts is expanding your contacts and can open
doors to new opportunities for business, career advancement, and personal
growth.
• Their “connectedness” goal is to work not only with lots of clients but also with half
dozen or more senior partners.
• Senior Partners is a member of a group of people, companies, countries, etc. that has
more power and influence than the other members.
• Social capital is the goodwill stemming from your social relationships, and it can be
mobilized on your behalf. It aids career success, compensation, employment, team
effectiveness, successful entrepreneurship, and relationships with suppliers and other
outsiders.
YOU
• You as an active contributor in a productive relationship - is a two-
way relationship in which you and your organization both benefit from
one another. The mindset is different: instead of doing what you are told,
you think about how you can contribute and you act accordingly. To the
extent that your organization values your contributions, you are likely to
benefit in return by receiving full and fair rewards, support for further
personal development, and a more gratifying work environment.