ABSTRACT
Friendships can spark anywhere and anytime. How modern communicators who are looking to enhance the communication skills in the business setting, approach the relationship matters the most, regardless of where they meet. This chapter presents questions and answers that help to take steps from simple connections that begin with casual conversations down a long and winding path to form stronger, longer-term bonds. It considers the art of connecting people's most valued contacts in their network and helping them to build successful relationships that are also built to last. There are plenty of tools, platforms, and online communities to connect them with anyone they want to reach. Communicator's goal should be to move from the virtual into the physical realm, being transparent and human every step of the way. Every opportunity to meet virtually gets communicators a step closer to the most human type of interaction they can have.
