Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create

Barriers to Building a Leadership Network

The nature of networking—working with and through others over whom you have no direct control—means that building and using networks can be difficult, even problematic. Identifying the people and groups with whom you should connect is often the easiest part. However, in the process of building and maintaining relationships, leaders are likely to face a number of barriers. Any one barrier can pose a challenge to effective networking; often a number of factors conspire to prevent good networks from developing.

Operational Differences

Valuable networking relationships may be thwarted because of the operations ...