1. Defining leadership Networking
Leadership networking refers to the deliberate and strategic process of building, maintaining, and utilizing a network of professional relationships to enhance leadership effectiveness. It involves connecting with diverse individuals, sharing knowledge, seeking advice, and fostering collaborations to access resources, information, and support. Effective leadership networking not only expands one's reach but also cultivates a community of like-minded individuals, fostering opportunities for learning, growth, and collective achievement. Leadership, as seen through a scholarly lens, encompasses various theories and approaches. Scholars define leadership as the process of influencing and motivating individuals or a group to achieve a common goal. Some emphasize traits, suggesting certain qualities are inherent to effective leaders, while others focus on behaviors and situational factors. Networking, in this context, is the strategic cultivation of relationships and connections to garner support, gather information, and mobilize resources toward achieving objectives. It involves building a web of relationships based on trust, reciprocity, and shared interests, amplifying a leader's ability to influence and drive change within their sphere of influence.
2. Defining Team building
Team building involves activities, strategies, and processes aimed at enhancing cooperation, collaboration, and communication among individuals within a group or team. Its goal is to improve team dynamics, increase trust, and strengthen relationships among team members. Through various exercises, workshops, and experiences, team building fosters a sense of unity, mutual understanding, and shared goals within the team, ultimately enhancing productivity, morale, and overall effectiveness. Scholars often define team building as a deliberate effort to enhance group dynamics, trust, and synergy through various activities, exercises, or interventions aimed at improving relationships, resolving conflicts, and maximizing collective performance. It involves building mutual understanding, respect, and a shared vision among team members to increase productivity and effectiveness.
Types of Networking in Leadership
In Harvard Business Review’s ‘How Leaders Create and Use Networks,’ Ibarra and Hunter recommend that to be a successful leader, you need to build three different types of networks: Operational, Personal and Strategic:
1. Operational network
Your operational network involves people useful to you for fulfilling your current work tasks and responsibilities. These are your daily contacts for routine activities. Some managers and leaders do not reach beyond this network to become more successful leaders – keeping themselves trapped in technical and operational roles without achieving their full potential. Remember we know that networks and networking are key in both career and leadership transitions.
Leadership & Team Building Activities On Organization
1. How to strengthen leadership
Networking
Reasons why leaders choose team building activities
The impact of poor or no team building
activities
Presented By
Sazzad Hossain Shimul
Department of Public Administration
2. How to strengthen leadership
Networking
1. Is my network open?
2. Is my network diverse?
3. Is my network deep?
Ask yourself 3 questions:
3. Reasons why leaders choose team building activities
1. Team collaboration and synergy
2. Adaptability and agility
3. More efficient workflow
4. Better decision-making
5. Increased employee engagement
Teambuildingensures:
A team is a small Number of people with Complementary Skills
to achieve common Goal.
4. The impact of poor or no team building
activities
1. Decreased productivity
2. Poor communication
3. High employee turnover
When team building activities fail:
