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Managing Authentic Relationships

Facing New Challenges in a Changing Context

Jean Paul Wijers

9789462988613
256 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
In an increasingly connected world, Strategic Relationship Management is a vital capability for successful organizations. The book Managing Authentic Relationships; Facing New Challenges in a Changing Context focuses on building and managing a strong network and reciprocal relationships for the entire organization by implementing a professional relationship management approach at strategic, tactical and operational level.

Professional relationship management makes valuable and measurable contributions to the strategic goals of an organization by: Expanding the organization's strategy to a Relationship Management Strategy; Efficiently managing relationships and correctly mapping stakeholders; Embedding clear responsibility for relationship management throughout the organization; Measuring results and calculating the Return-on-Relationship; Developing strong networking skills and networkers who are able to act as eyes and ears for the organization; Organizing effective networking activities with measurable results.

This book also offers a holistic view. Managing authentic relationships requires a shared understanding of what relationships are. It is impossible to develop successful relationship management without authentic relationships based on trust and reciprocity.
Author Bio
Jean Paul Wijers is the Executive Director of Protocolbureau and the Institute of Strategic Relationship Management. In 1996 he graduated from Hotelschool The Hague, one year after founding Protocolbureau. Between 2001 and 2009 Jean Paul worked for the Dutch Royal Household as Head Usher at Royal Weddings and State Funerals. He is one of the authors of Managing Authentic Relationships: Facing New Challenges in a Changing Context (Amsterdam University Press, 2019), a book about strategic relationship management. Jean Paul Wijers is a soughtafter relationship management expert, regularly called upon to support the development of a new relationship management. He teaches at the Hotelschool The Hague university and at Georgetown University in Qatar.