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Practice 2: Understanding your role in relationships

Practice 2: Understanding your role in relationships

From the course: How Managers Make Work Meaningful for Themselves and Their Teams

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Practice 2: Understanding your role in relationships

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- The final step in practice two, building a culture of connection, is to understand your role in your network. Knowing the role you perform helps you understand how other people within your informal network perceive you. Based on decades of research, academics have identified various roles people perform. I've condensed these roles into four types, connectors, bridges, brokers, and experts. Connectors are people at the center of any network, as they link people together. These people tend to be very influential, as they're associated with most people within the network who seek them out for support and advice. A bridge is someone at work who knows people in two different groups, and then connects some people in each group or in both groups. Unlike connectors, bridges only have close connections with some people within an informal network. But they have many loose connections in multiple informal networks. Often, bridges are sought out for who they know, and for advice on who to go to…

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