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worttodo.docxAnalysis of Your Network
For this exercise, you will be completing a network analysis of your professional network (i.e., career related) OR your personal network (e.g., friendship network). You should select only one network to analyze and you do not need to fill all the lines in the table below, but you should try to be as comprehensive as possible to get the best understanding of your network. Let’s get started!
Now that you have finished your network list, let’s consider a few questions (see next page).
1. In looking at the people in your network (second column of your network analysis), what role(s) do they tend to play? Which areas need development and which areas need de-layering (i.e., reducing of redundancies)?
The role played by the people in my professional network relates to procedures around the workplace but with adequate support from the base. Taking note of the roles they play, it is evident that fruition in the work setups is also dependent on composure from a personal or family basis. There are areas that need development and include the area of information available and decision making at the managerial levels. By improving these two areas, the overall position of the career will improve and serve a purpose . In the same context, the area of support in career development needs to be de-layered. This is because the people are quite many, and their inputs might conflict on many occasions.
2. In looking at who introduced you to your contacts (third column of your network analysis), what patterns do you notice? Do you tend to be connector? Can you identify a broker in your network? What changes, if any, should you make in terms of how you connect with people as you build your network?
In looking at the third column of the professional network analysis, there is a pattern whereby the people who play a particular role in my professional network also have other people whom they connect me with to help in other areas. For example, Jeff, who is introduced to me by Ken, goes ahead to introduce Sue and Warren to me. This shows an element of a chain of connections across the professional network . However, I would make changes in the course of building the network whereby I would maintain a balance in all the roles played by different people in my professional network to promote collective development.
3. In our Lecture 8.3 we discuss network analysis, and in particular, network tendencies such as the similarity and proximity principles as well as networking traps. Does your network show evidence of any of these challenges; why or why not? Draw on the video lecture to substantiate your point.
My professional has elements of similarity and proximity because some of the people in my network are those with whom we share experience and are in the field of career, e.g., Marion and Tabitha, who offer me support in my career development. More so, there are others with whom we spend a lot of time together, e.g., Vincent and Kings, and therefore help me in areas of work balance and a sense of purpose. My professional network is not overloaded because not so many people are there to undertake given roles in the network. There is a characteristic of muscled interconnection and shared activities as in the illustration below.
