Relationship Building (Gates Millennium Scholars Edition)

LET’S NOT NETWORK, Y’ALL!

@KYLEPSTAPLETON

• Emphasize the importance of networking and relationship building through campus leadership

• Highlight techniques and strategies on how to produce organizational success from such relationships

• Share advice on best practices to create career and business opportunities through established contacts

• Illustrate how the benefits of relationships with institutional administration transfer to organizational success and the workforce

• Why should I build relationships?

• How can I build relationships?

• What happens when I build relationships?

PURPOSE

RESULT

PROCESS

PURPOSE

“Anthropological evidence suggests that there are no known human societies without some form of leadership ...”

from “Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership” (2006)

“... Social psychological research reveals that a leader-follower structure emerges spontaneously even when groups set out to be leaderless ...”

from “Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership” (2006)

“... It seems that whenever a group of people come together, a leader-follower relationship naturally develops ...”

from “Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership” (2006)

“... This has led various experts to conclude that leadership is a universal human behavior.”

from “Evolutionary Origins of Leadership and Followership” (2006)

“I am a role model for those who stand beside me and for those who will follow in my path.

I accept this responsibility with humility in knowing that

I am a leader for America’s future.”

WHAT’S YOUR PURPOSE?

PROCESS

• ID

• DTU

• Ph.D.

PROCESS

• Connectors

• Role Models

• Mentees

ID THE PLAYERS

• Investment, Not Transaction

• Give > Receive

• Be a Student

DO THE UNEXPECTED

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

• Endowment

• Reciprocity

• Investment

• Risk

from Cureo’s “4 Psychological Principles to Build Strong Business Relationships”

BE A DOCTOR

RESULT

“It was impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.”