Unconnected employees can be a burden on a wide variety of operations, including retention, engagement, management, leadership, fiscal decision-making, and productivity—all the things you need to fulfill your agency’s goals and purpose.
Creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking opportunities is critical to building agency expertise. The OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) 5, Building Coalitions, reminds us that we need employees who know how to “develop networks and build alliances; collaborate across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.” As organizations become flatter and more collaborative, you must learn how to encourage a Network-Oriented Workplace (NOW)—one in which people are ready and able to contribute to agency-wide results.
In this webcast, you will learn:
Lynne Waymon is an internationally recognized expert on networking and business development. She’s the co-author of Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative World (AMACOM, NY, 2015) and Make Your Contacts Count (NY, 2nd Edition, American Management Association).
In keynotes and training programs she gives professionals in corporate, association, university, and government audiences, as well as people in professional services firms, practical strategies for getting things done through networking, collaboration, and alliance building. Her strategies, in print and in person, are recognized as state-of-the-art.
Recent clients include the Bristol-Myers Squibb, KPMG, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz-Allen Hamilton, U.S. Cellular, Verizon, Corning, DuPont, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, PNC Bank, HSBC Bank, the Society of Women Engineers, the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, the Consumer Electronics Association, the American Institute of Architects, George Washington University, Georgetown University, the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society, the Treasury Executive Institute, several intelligence agencies, and the U.S. Departments of State, Agriculture, FDA, Commerce, & Navy, the NIH, the Presidential Fellows Program.
