Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create, Paperback/Curt Grayson

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Description Leadership networking is not about collecting business cards or schmoozing. It's about building relationships and making alliances in service of others and in service of your organization's work and goals. This book will show you how to enhance your networks and become effective at leadership networking. By seeing networking as an integral part of your role as a leader and by taking action to develop and nurture related skills, you create benefits for yourself, your group, and your organization. About the Author This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, sinceits inception in 1970, through its research and educationalactivity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands ofmanagers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a waythat is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply acollection of individual experts, although the individualcredentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and workingtogether to understand and generate practical responses to today'sleadership and organizational challenges. The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specificadvice on how to complete a developmental task or solve aleadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL'smission to advance the understanding, practice, and development ofleadership for the benefit of society worldwide. Curt Grayson is an enterprise associate of CCL's San Diego campus. He is a trainer for open-enrollment and customprograms, and he assists in the design, development, andmodification of programs. Curt holds a B. S. in psychology from San Diego State University, an M. A. in clinical psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology, and a Ph. D. in organizationalpsychology from California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. David Baldwin is a f