Anyone who is giving some pep talk about attaining some levels of focus within our lives, they would talk about how they are either “networking” or how they successfully established afew things in their lives through their “networks”
Is Networking the same as socializing, or is socializing the same as networking…When do we actually disengage from socializing to networking, or how do we turn our social affiliations into networks.
Is Networking knowing people? Is networking having the ability and skills to interact with people? Is networking all formal? Is networking merged with socialization? Is a network a circle of friends or acquittances? is Networking walking into a room and all of a sudden everyone is greeting you left right and centre because they know you, Is Networking all about knowing the who’s and who’s in the society?
Networking could be creating ties with people, persons or associations of similar interests while creating healthy friendships and also creating life’s long contacts, networking could be who knows you, who knows what you need, who can mention your name amidst competition, networking could be knowing who exactly to call when you are in trouble, networking could be who can call you when there is a feast of opportunities awaiting to be grabbed, networking could be establishing long term relationships that benefit all of you in your circle, networking could be, being beneficial to your circle, like being the most important, the most resourceful person in your circle, like when you get to hear the phrase, you should know people, you are the “people”, networking could be just having a close knit of people who are always available as and when needed to offer their support and show solidarity as when duty calls. Networking is being able to recognize individual skills that your circle owns, and pushing one another to exploit and have new desires of wanting to be great. Networking is not just who you know, networking is more of who knows you too..
Networks exists in different forms, social networks, career networks, spiritual networks, business networks, sports networks, etc depending on the interactions you have on a day to day, or the industry of work you could be in, you can belong to any, or even all of them if you can..
Are networks important, are they beneficial? I believe they are, and networks shouldn’t be confused for friends, they can however be, but not all the time. However a form of tie or relationship certainly does have to exist to belong to that network, either a common ground, a common goal, common ideas, just some form of like mindedness. Identifying your network is important because at times its out of these networks that you can get favors, you can get people pulling strings for you simply by you being in their network, they can be contacts that you would need even many years to come that may benefit you a whole eternity, but it’s important to be networked, if not for anything but to be informed about everything that you wouldn’t know if you did not have one.
Who are your networks, what has networking done for you, have you benefited from networking, is it important to be connected to people or associations,,,, can one be considered whole if they are not networked🤔
Lastly, your phone book, your contacts are they your networks? Can they be classified as your networks. Your followers, your social media friends are they the ones.. Or in what forms do your networks exist.
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