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Do thank another professional who has accepted your referral, because showing your appreciation will help develop your professional network. And do follow up to make sure that the referral led to contact. We have an ethical responsibility to determine whether the client made it to his or her appointment. Many times this may require the treatment professional to whom the referral was made to sign a release in order to talk with you. 

Developing a professional network helps counselors and therapists provide the best care possible to clients. Networks not only work to improve the treatment outcomes of clients, but also can increase the knowledge of therapists and counselors as well as provide for professional support to avoid burnout and poor decisions. Networks can make the process of referring clients much easier as well. 

Even when the path is unknown, there may be many clues about what may help. Novel problems may have some similarities to other, more well-known problems for which empirically validated interventions have been tested and developed. In such cases, those validated strategies may be modified to treat the problem at hand. In some instances, you may not have to reinvent the wheel so much as adjust it so it fits a different cart. In other cases, perhaps someone in your professional network has worked with a similar problem and can provide consultation regarding what she or he did, and whether it worked. 

An academy established in 1999 by the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) to offer career support to ASSE members and the profession. Its program includes an annual Professional Development Conference and Exposition, workshops and seminars offered throughout the United States, and professional networking. See also American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). 

Develop professional networks upon which further discussions and collaborations could be built. 

In Chapter 3, we highlight the importance of organizational networking in the development of an effective safety culture and how it cannot be overstated. We will provide some concepts on how we are all considered part of a complex web of personal and professional networks. We will demonstrate how your personal network allow you to send and receive information about yourself, the safety culture, the organizational environment, and its related issues, problems, or concerns as well as your successes. 

In this chapter, we will discuss the importance of defining your personal and professional network in the development of a safety culture. We will introduce concepts for assessing your network through network mapping and the roles that must be vmderstood to effectively move information to the leadership team and throughout the organization. 

Additionally, the lEE professional development function is exploring the possibility for Chartered Engineers in the regions to take on mentees who lack company support. There are still some reservations about ethical issues in these relationships - for example, mentors who might work for competitors of the mentee s company. This new lEE Mentoring Network will offer candidates an opportunity to find a trained mentor who is outside their immediate work place. The network is supported by the lEE Professional Development Section -principally Tony Johns (lEE Mentoring Executive Officer). A retired Chartered Engineer with many years experience as a traditional lEE mentor, Johns role is to ... 

As previously stated, the American Chemistry Council also recognizes this concept as an integral part of the code of Responsible Care , Process Safety Code of Management Practices, Companies should openly share nonproprietary results from internal process safety incident investigations and related research through the auspices of trade and professional associations, and other networking opportunities. Other organizations should strive to benefit from the lessons learned by others and keep abreast of latest developments and safety alerts. 

The authors are grateful to Shigetoshi Yokoyama for professional and valuable advice. This work was supported by Genome Network Project 2004-2008 by MEXT, and the Grant of Research on Child Health and Development by Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. 

The collaboration of professional geochemists which has resulted in this field manual has been widespread both in terms of geographical location and experience. Most of the contributors have been acknowledged as co-authors, but there are many others who have contributed to the preparation of this document. This process has been extremely successful and an active network of European geochemists has developed as a direct result, with a biennially rotating leadership. 

The WWC laboratory program, developed under the auspices of an NSF grant (DUE No. 96-53080), was designed to provide explicit examples of how chemistry is used by professionals who are not educated and trained as chemists per se. The program serves as an excellent example of an academic interdisciplinary project that was successful as it was the result of the efforts of a network of faculty in different disciplines and from different institutions. The primary goal of the WWC laboratory program is to develop an understanding of how... 

Etzkowitz et al. make another important statement in their paper Informal networks are indispensable to professional development, career advancement, and scientific progress. Contiguity of helpful colleagues improves the conditions for scientific achievement. Contiguity is the key. It is not just a... 

Professional associations provide unique opportunities for networking, career advancement, and personal skill development. Individual contributions to an association in support of its mission assure advancement of the profession. As pharmacists we are obliged to contribute to our professional associations to assure continued success of the profession of pharmacy. This chapter serves as a resource for determining the best fit for you in your professional association of choice. 

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