Three Part Support System
What is a network for?
How do you get advice and help when problems arise?
How do you gather the information you need for making important business decisions?
How do you identify your markets and locate potential clients?
Comparison to larger organizations, which in part meaning these type of organizations usually have a formal structure, a management team that meets regularly to oversee and approve key activities and changes before other memebrs of the organization implement them. Its purpose is to ensure that sound decisions are made to facilitate communication and teamwork as well as protect assets. A typical management team might include the heads of the legal, marketing, personnel, operations, security and finance departments.
In small scale business, you don’t have the build in resources to form your own management team. What it is you do need is the functional equivalent of a management team. Having a network is a systematically and strategically selected group of people whom you can call on when the need arises. It is a diverse, balanced, powerful system of sources that will provide referrals, information and spport in key areas of your business or profession.
Systmatic Approach
1. A more manageable approach
2. Diversified balanced support team
3. Overlooking cost effective sources
4. A was to assess strengths and weaknesses
5. Ease of finding, remmebering and accessing sources
Building Networks
1. Categorize your network members
2. Identify your network members
