766: Using AI to Make Networking Easier, with Ruth Gotian

Most of us recognize the value of building a better network, but we also know the time and dedication it takes. In this episode, how we can use AI tools to do some of the legwork so that we can spend more time on the real relationship building. This is Coaching for Leaders episode 766. Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stachowiak. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. One thing that all of us need to do a decent job at, maybe not a perfect job, maybe not even a great job, but a decent job is building our professional networks. Not only building them, but continuing to invest in the professional networks that we have and are growing. Almost all of us recognize the importance of that, but we don't necessarily put the time and attention into it that we should. And now so many amazing tools and strategies are available to help us make this easier through AI. And I'm so glad to welcome back today a guest expert, a great friend of the show who's helped us in so many ways of building our relationships, of mentoring, of thinking about high achievers, and today a conversation on how we can do better at networking with AI. I'm so pleased to welcome back Ruth Gauthien to the show. She is the former chief learning officer and associate professor of education in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Thinkers 50 has ranked her the number one emerging management thinker in the world, and she's a top LinkedIn voice in mentoring. She's the author of The Success Factor and also with Andy Lapata, The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring, both of which we featured previously. Ruth, always a pleasure to see you. Welcome back. So good to be here again. Yeah. I, always learn so much from you. So anytime you are on, it is a pleasure to get into your work. And I recently watched and completed your most recent LinkedIn learning course. And there's a quote that you mentioned in the course from McKinsey, and it says, since the COVID nineteen pandemic, most people admit that their network has either shrunk or stalled. I hadn't really thought about that, but then when I read that, I thought, oh, that makes sense. And I think, like, this is also really interesting in the context of networking in that we a lot of us, have the assumption that relationships that trust doesn't happen as well in a virtual environment, that we can't build trust in a virtual environment. And it's just it's just not true, is it? I don't believe that's true. For the listeners, Dave and I have never met in person. We've not. And I've been a guest on the show several times, and I love, love, love our conversations, …