This research explores the link and importance of creating and maintaining networks with statewide and county-wide leadership training programs. The first section provides a review of literature on networking and its importance for leadership inside and outside organizations. The next section focuses on the method of research of surveying and interviewing two sets of leadership training program alumni. The following sections provide an analysis and the results of the research questions. From these results, certain issues become apparent regarding the reasons for usage and frequency of usage of the networks including the desire, opportunity, and necessity of creating and maintaining networks. Additional prescriptions are made that lend themselves to other leadership training programs such as whether or not to explicitly identify, establish, and sustain networking in these programs.
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