Resources for Your Invisible Network
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Further down the page are links to several ungated articles on leadership and career development that have proven to be especially popular with our clients, as well as information about the podcast, Career Stewardship with Michael Melcher.
The Relationship Portfolio Bingo Card
A handy and easy-to-use spreadsheet that will help you organize and prioritize how you expand your personal and professional networks.
Analyzing Your Invisible Network
A simple PDF to jog your memory about your strong and weak ties, and where you can start taking positive action.
How to Build Your Convening Power
When it comes to building relationships, you can go beyond one-on-one interactions. Start building your convening power. The benefits are logarithmic, not arithmetic.
5 Beliefs That Will Inhibit Your Relationship Building
Creating, maintaining, and leveraging relationships is a question of specific actions and specific mindsets. Some beliefs will support your progress, and other (very common) beliefs will block your progress.
Let’s hold some of these unhelpful beliefs up to the microscope and unlearn them.
Articles
Additional thoughts and practices for leadership and career effectiveness.
Podcast
Career Stewardship with Michael Melcher: A Podcast for Nourishing Your Career
Career stewardship is about taking control of your career. Over 40+ episodes of Career Stewardship with Michael Melcher, Michael speaks with experts, coaches and clients to demystify the insights and practices that will help you be not just successful but also fulfilled.
Each of the episodes will introduce you to compelling new ideas that will help you create the career you want. We beyond conventional wisdom and dig into the nuances of topics like values, vision, relationship building, interviewing, career pivots, ageism and more – along with the special idea of “20 Minutes a Day.” And in several episodes, you can hear an actual coaching session.
Grounded, motivational and funny, with plenty of real-world examples, the Career Stewardship podcast will help you shape your evolving career. Because why shouldn’t you have the career you want?
"Relationships are a form of wealth that is under your control. You can build this wealth from nothing, and once you have it, no one can take it away from you."
—Michael Melcher