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After completing your Social Networks exercise, please comment on…
After completing your Social Networks exercise, please comment on the following: What results surprised you? What activities do you plan to undertake to build and evolve your network as you set forth in your career?
***Discuss in a Point of View that you have a lot of Social Network connections****
Complete the exercise below:
Social Network Exercise (please complete)
Step 1: List Your Network Contacts
In answering the following questions, list people from ANY context (not just work) in the blanks. People with whom you have more than one kind of relationship can be listed more than once. List as few or as many as you wish (and add more blanks), or leave blank.
Discussing important school and work matters: Looking back at the last two or three years, who are the people with whom you have discussed important school and work matters (e.g., bouncing ideas for important projects, getting support or cooperation for your initiatives, evaluating opportunities, other matters important to you)? _________ ____________ ___________ __________
Getting the job done: What people have been most helpful and useful in accomplishing your goals (e.g., provided leads, made introductions, offered advice in your decision making, or other resources)? _________ ____________ ___________ __________
Advancing your career: Who has contributed most significantly to your educational, professional, and career advancement during the past two or three years? _________ ____________ ___________ __________ ________ _______
Step 2: Consolidate Your List
Consolidate the names listed in step 1 onto the Network Grid. No one person should be listed twice. You can add more lines.
Step 3: Describe the Closeness of the Relationship
For each person listed on the network grid, indicate the closeness of your relationship with him or her by placing an X on a continuum from “very close” to “close” to “not very close” to “distant.” Very close relationships are those characterized by high degrees of liking, trust, and mutual commitment. Distant relationships are those characterized by not knowing the person very well or by having very little liking, trust, and mutual commitment (i.e., problematic relationships).
Step 4: Compute the Density of Your Relationships:
Density = extent to which the people in your network know each other. Using the grid on the next page, indicate who knows who in your network by placing a check mark in the cells for each acquainted pair. Leave a cell blank if the pair does not know each other, or if you do not know whether they know each other.
Start with person 1, for example, Mom knows Taylor (2), Dad (3), and Jordan (4), but no one else in Siri’s network. Go on to person 2, Taylor. Taylor knows … Go on to person 3, and so on.
Once you finished check-marking who knows who, compute the density of YOUR network through the following steps:
a) Total number of people in your network N = _______
To follow our example, if you have 10 people, your n=10.
Maximum density (i.e., if everyone in your network knew each other). If you had n people, your maximum density is (10 * 9) ÷ 2 = 45. [N * (N – 1)] ÷ 2 = M M = _______
Total number of check marks on your network grid (i.e., the number of relationships among people in your network). For example, you might have C = 19. C = ________
Density of your network. In the above example, D = 19 ÷ 45 = .42
C ÷ M = D D = ________
Step 3: Relationship Step 2: List names Step 4: Density of Network
Note: You may need more than 14 blanks. Please feel free to add them.
