Posted by Teresa Snelgrove, December 21st, 2009
Networking: The roots of your resilient business
Is our success in business as dependent on networking as we think? The answer is “yes”.
That seemed to be the general consensus at the CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 session on December 17th. An interesting aspect to this is: if you polled 100 people 15 years ago and asked them what had made them successful in their chosen career, perhaps 1-5 people might have said being a part of “the old boy’s network” or meeting the right people at the right time. They would not have said that networking is a strategy — a learned skill that is essential to growing your business or getting a job.
Posted by Justin Policarpio, December 10th, 2008
Networking: more than just a business card
As the saying goes, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. In today’s business and innovation world, it’s hard to disagree with a statement like that. It’s hard to get into any high level industry or research position and impossible to grow your company without collaborating or networking.
Networking is sometimes treated as a shameless word with its reputation of being phony or fake, but in reality, it can honestly be one of your strongest tools in evolving your career. There are those who roam around networking sessions passing out their business cards to every face they see, sometimes without saying a word. But that’s not what we’re talking about here.
