EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE through NETWORKING

1
EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE through NETWORKING

• NETWORKING
• Practical Issues
• arthur coldrick

2
Practical questions

• Why do you want to network?
• Is networking at expense of something else?
• What are your networking comfort zones?
  people, institutions, geography, gender,value
  systems or whatever?
• What will you contribute?
• Implications of time
• Confidentiality?
• Limitations of access?
• Who will actually network?
• Passive v Active networking

3
RELATED ISSUES

• Networking v Networks
• Financial implications do they arise?
• Legal implications
• Time horizons e.g. project v permanence
• Network administration
• Communication modes
• Is Network tiered? e.g. hierarchy?
• Sub-Groups
• Shared priorities for learning?
• Meeting climate

4
LIMITATIONS

• Will not address immediate in-house deficits
  (normally!)
• Can harm competitiveness
• Diversion of resources
• Can be an attractive digression
• Solutions not universally applicable
• Cultural malfunction
• Personality clashes

5
CONSIDER (?)

• Joint venture
• VRM (Voluntary Reciprocal Monitoring)
• Set up new or join old?
• Look for history and precedents
• Join a Skillnet or FÁS project
• Technological options
• What will outcomes be?
• ENJOY the experience!