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The Best Way To Connect In A New Job Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsThe Best Way To Connect In A New Job

Harvard Business Review

What’s the best way for a new hire to start making connections in an organization? The most effective strategy is not creating a large network or relying on a mentor to make introductions. Instead, take a more selective, less-superficial initial approach.

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The Secret Sauce When Choosing a Second Act Career Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingThe Secret Sauce When Choosing a Second Act Career

Forbes

Most people assume meaningful work is the key. But research shows that people tend to overestimate the importance of what they want to do. Instead, they should be focusing on who they work with every day.

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You Could Be Too Much of a Team Player Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingYou Could Be Too Much of a Team Player

Wall Street Journal

Offices demand collaboration like never before. People who don’t set some limits could start falling behind, hurting their company and hating their job.

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Connect and Adapt Organizational Dynamics article Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsConnect and Adapt: How Network Development and Transformation Improve Retention and Engagement in Employees’ first Five Years

Organizational Dynamics

Most organizations use a human capital approach to retention. Despite doing an excellent job of onboarding, many lose their best employees. Organizations can take a network approach to engaging employees, well after initial onboarding, for better outcomes.

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The Secret of Successful Female Networks Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingThe Secrets of Successful Female Networkers: Four Behaviors Set Them Apart

Harvard Business Review

Some female leaders establish strong networks and win greater influence and more-senior positions as a result. A study based on data from 16,500 women and men identified four characteristics that distinguish the networking behaviors of more-successful women—they were efficient, nimble, boundary spanning and energy-balanced.

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A Smarter Way to Network: The Personal Networks of Successful Leaders Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingA Smarter Way to Network: The Personal Networks of Successful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Successful executives connect with select people and get more out of them. Research shows how they create and maintain their personal networks and four steps to build a more effective network: analyze, de-layer, diversify and capitalize.

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Faster Onboarding for Organizational Success Network Strategy: Accelerate Role TransitionsFaster Onboarding for Organizational Success

Workday’s In Good Company video series

Every year millions of people will start a new job, change teams or welcome a new team member. Network research shows how to help people be more successful in their new roles, faster.

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