Uncovering the Unconnected Employee

We coined the phrase “unconnected employees” to describe employees who lack the skills to build effective business relationships. As experts in business networking, we’ve been convinced for many years that networking is the overlooked and underestimated professional competency. How then, is building networking competency among employees a solution to many of the negative outcomes of lack of engagement?

As we have reviewed recent management literature, we have been gratified to see other researchers and experts citing networking as critical as they point out the problems that unconnected employees create for their organizations. Those leaders who fail to nurture their networks miss out on a fundamental aspect of their role.

Networking can help these leaders to reveal and capitalize on growth opportunities for the organizations. There are many ways that unconnected employees can harm their organizations.