FAQs

Below are five of the questions most often asked by those new to Networlding. If there is a different question that you would like answered, please email us at info@networlding.com.

1. What is Networlding?
2. Is Networlding for me?
3. How do I start learning Networlding?
4. What are our core values?
5. Where should I start?
   

Networlding is a process to develop better, key, pivotal relationships for professional and/or organizational marketing and career success. How often have you experienced networking that does not work? You attend an event assuming that you will meet at least one person with whom you can do business, but instead you find yourself pressured to give business. In contrast, Networlding involves building "value-based" relationships that are mutually beneficial. These strategic connections create the foundation for short and long-term, higher quality relationships than achieved through any other traditional marketing and sales strategies. Following are just a few of the ways Networlding can help achieve success:

For organizations:

• Creating the most effective online to offline word of mouth marketing campaigns.
• Building better business faster through the exclusive Networlding methodology that rivals the best sales programs.
• Retaining top corporate talent. Organizations like CDW, Motorola, CNA and American Express have found that top employees leave within one year of employment if they have not built strong, internal networks. We offer a proven, exclusive system for ensuring retention.
• Breaking down the silos in organizations
• Identifying those people in your organization who can support you in accelerating the progress of key initiatives 
• Moving from a hierarchical organization to create a matrixed organization where networks are leveraged both internally and externally through alliances and partnering
• Developing leaders within companies and their communities of practice
• Supporting change leaders in organizations to improve communications
• Accelerating the exchange of information
• Building a dynamic, collaborative and creative environment that fosters superior performance

For individuals:

• For sales professionals, helping you get those new key accounts faster
• Starting new, powerful entrepreneurial endeavors
• Building a strong support network (for those new and not so new to the area)
• Aligning with people of similar and complementary values
• Building powerful, professional and community networks
• Experiencing a sense of belonging

Networlding is for anyone who wants to build better relationships faster that can lead to truly transformational opportunities (more productive employees, better business opportunities, faster and better goal achievement) and at the same time, have more fulfillment in their lives. Networlding has served:

• Executives in Fortune 500 and 1000 companies
• Presidents
• Chief Operating Officer
• Chief Learning Officers
• Chief Information Officers
• Sales Managers
• Alliance Directors and Managers
• Non-profit Executives
• Individuals in job transition
• Entrepreneurs growing dynamic organizations
  

• Sales acceleration and key account acquisition
• Marketing programs
• Leadership development
• Alliance creation and leverage
• Team building
• Recruitment and retention
• Community relations
• Cause-related marketing
• Creativity and innovation

3. How do I start learning Networlding?

If you are a manager, director, vice president or president of a company and want to use Networlding for your employees, you can start Networlding in your organization by bringing together as few as 10 employees to go through a half ot one-day Networlding Boot Camp with a certified Networlding facilitator. Here, together with your employees, you learn Networlding, and form a core "learning" circle.

Once you have completed a Boot Camp, in the next stage we call the "growth stage," the original group initiates new learning circles with leaders participating from the core circle as well as new participants joining in an even more powerful learning experience. In these extended circles two paired leaders from the core circle help further facilitate the practice of Networlding with your new participants along with your prior Networlding facilitator to sustain and leverage learning and results across all divisions of your company.

4. What are our core values?

• Integrity
• Making a difference
• Collaboration
• Innovation

We integrate these values into our work with leaders because we have found, through research, our own experience and the experience of hundreds of other top executives that these three, key values are the winning set of core values for a top-performing organization that "works to win" rather than "works to avoid losing." These core values create the kind of organizations we want to create networks with around the world.

The path to success is through trust and courage to own the values of integrity, collaboration and making a difference. By owning these values individuals and organizations will form internal and external alliances to co-create transformational opportunities for all their key stakeholders: 1) their employees, 2) their community and 3) their shareholders, vendors and other financial participants in the value chain. For all non-profits, we offer our exclusive, 100-plus page guidebook to you to help grow your organization or association at no cost.

Next, you can start your own Networlding learning circle of 4-10 people to get the most out of Networlding. And if your circle moves through the first three steps of Networlding, Melissa or a certified Networlder will join you at a meeting by phone to answer questions and provide you with guidance to help you master the Networlding principles at no cost!

Networlding, through its worldwide network of past participants, can help you not only learn the process but connect, one person at a time, to other like-valued people. Along with our team of Networlding Certified Facilitators we can provide you with ongoing assistance in learning and mastering the science of Networlding.

Contact us at info@networlding.com or call us at 312-421-4213 to get started with Networlding. We'll send you our free e-book, "The Nanosecond Networlders" and our great, top-selling tips booklet, 101 Ways to Networlding when you call. We'll also sign you up for our free e-newsletter.