Personal Narrative Social Network Analysis - 1323 Words

Roshan Ravishankar Dr. Carton MGMT 101 2.20.2016 MGMT 101 Paper: Social Network Analysis As alluded to in the assignment description, it is useful to first define what my own personal idea of success entails. I view success as maximizing my achievement and that of my close friends and family, while defining achievement as the accomplishment of difficult and rewarding goals. Moreover, my personal ambition is to contribute to the implementation of knowledge from statistics and mathematics into the biological and biomedical sciences – either through a career in academia or industry. Maintaining a strong network can help me by serving as a source of new ideas, emotional support, guidance, and insight. For convenience, and because they are not†¦show more content†¦My first goal is to strengthen my ties with some of the individuals in my mentoring network, because my current network is diffuse and weak. My mentoring network consists of my advisors, research coordinators, and other career-oriented mentors. The density of this network is only about 15%. This group is more varied in terms of age, gender, and race than my peer network. After studying my mentoring network, I have realized that I need to improve the strength of my relationships with the members of this network. For example, I rarely interact with these members outside of instances where their direct consultation is necessary (such as when courses need to be selected, a form needs to be signed, or a roadblock is encountered in a project). This ultimately hampers my own accomplishment because it prevents me from benefiting from the advice and guidance that my network has to offer. Thus, in the future, I plan to communicate with the members of my mentoring network more frequently. First, I will keep them more updated on my progress, and not allow months to pass by without communication Sending updates will strengthen our relationship by showing them how much I value their mentorship. Second I will request their opinion and guidance more often. This will not only demonstrate my desire to better myself, but also grant be knowledge and perspective that will be helpful as a I move further in my