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How Can You Teach Your Employees to widen their network?
Try to link each employee to the appropriate person most able to fill their needs by looking for these skills:
    Nurturing.

Encourage your employees to build personal relationships with others in the organization.
    Sponsoring.

You can be a sponsor for your employee yourself or find a colleague or senior team member who can help your employee gain visibility, perhaps even recommend them for a new job. Different sponsor might offer something different.
    Teaching.

As a manager, you cannot be the only teacher for your entire employees. Find someone who can help them learn new skills, expertise and build themselves. Teach your employees to fish, rather them give them a fish. This may be a short-term teaching experience or a long-term, ongoing professional association.
    Informing.

Some of your colleagues may have different the power sources than you are, and other people may have different connections from yours. Find someone who has information about what’s going on inside or outside the organization and encourage them to share it.

    Advising.

Find a person who is in a position to give valuable advice. The more you can link these good advice-givers, the better.