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Managing External Relations
More Precise Ways of Developing Your Network
Places to Network
✔ When you meet someone new, record and file information on
that person within 24 hours.
✔ Add one new person to your network file at least once a week.
✔ When you make a new contact, for example at emergency co-ordination
meetings or contingency planning initiatives, follow-up immediately with
whatever information you have to share.
✔ Keep track of the last time you contacted someone in your network.
✔ Update contacts frequently.
✔ Ensure that you have correctly spelled the names and addresses of
everyone in your network.
✔ Make it easy for others to include you in their networks by providing them
with up-to-date e-mail addresses, and business cards, notifying them of
address changes and keeping them informed about changes in your work
arrangements. If you are on a short-term emergency assignment, make
sure that your contacts know both your immediate contact information
and that of your ‘regular’ posting.
✔ Check the effectiveness of your network by ensuring that you can provide
others with names of good resource people or information sources when
they ask for them.
From your experience, what are some of the most effective ways to network?
How could you improve the results of your networking efforts? List these ways
and describe the steps you will take to implement them.
Almost everyone practices some form of networking—personally or professionally—as they meet
people as part of their daily routine. Most people, however, do not make efforts to derive the
greatest benefits from their networks. Make the most of your network at meetings, press briefings,
formal and informal settings by following the steps and tips given above.