Five Days to Find Your People
This past summer, our Alumni Personal and Career Development Center team launched a week-long challenge on our @LifeAfterWake Instagram account to #findyourpeople. In this challenge we provided ...
Categories: community, connections, create community, network, relationship-building
From Instant Pot to Instagram: Critical Lessons in Startup Community Building
What makes a community thrive? How does a community go from ordinary to extraordinary? Drawing on excerpts from her new book, Get Together, How to Build Community with Your People, this First ...
Categories: community, create community, network, relationship-building
Find Your People: Informational Interviews for Grown-Ups
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Ph.D., Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University
As college students, we are taught the value of the informational ...
Categories: create community, network, relationship-building
How to Network When You Hate to Network
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Ph.D., Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University
If you’re like me, you hate anything that looks like, sounds like, ...
Categories: create community, mentorship, network, relationship-building
How to Start an Affinity Group at Work
An affinity group, sometimes referred to as an “employee resource group,” can be very beneficial in the workplace to bring people together around common interests or goals. Whether you are ...
Categories: community, connections, create community, culture, meaning, network, relationship-building
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