🎒 Microlesson

🪞 Reflect

As a remote worker, what are your strategies for building and maintaining a thriving professional network? 

💡 Concept

Building a robust professional network counteracts isolation, opens doors to career opportunities, and helps you stay visible and connected. But developing such a community might seem challenging when you don’t have regular in-office interactions with coworkers. 

Here are four ways that remote workers can strategically build a professional network, all while working from home:

✉️  Build your network by reaching out directly.

In an office environment, you can more easily rely on serendipity to provide opportunities to meet people. In a virtual environment, however, you need to be more intentional in your efforts to build relationships. Learn more here.

⚡ Find and create opportunities to meet more people virtually. 

Your network will only grow if you meet people to add to it. To meet and connect with more people by chance, you have to put yourself in situations where that’s possible. Learn more here. 

👯 Make remote work friends.

Meaningful relationships at work benefit the individuals involved as well as the team and organization they are part of. Click here to learn some strategies for building and strengthening remote connections.

📹 Build connections using video messages. 

Video messages can help you communicate smarter, foster better relationships, and make remote work more enjoyable. Use them to replace meetings and to send personal messages and thoughtful content. Learn more here.

🎬 Take Action

• Choose one of the actions listed in this microlesson and commit to trying it. 

• Complete your action within the next two weeks. 

• Reflect on the impact that your action has. 

• Share your results.

🧠 Keep Learning

Learn more about building your network as a remote worker in Growplaceless. 

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