In early June Olga Chebotkova, the head of TRANSEARCH International St. Petersburg office, took part in a business workshop «Networking as universal business tool» as a speaker. The workshop was organized by the Higher School of Economics (HSE) of St. Petersburg State University together with Sales Manager Club.

The workshop was prepared by leaders of business community who have a wide experience in use of networking. Besides Olga Chebotkova representing TRANSEARCH International many prominent business figures from Russia and other countries were invited as speakers. Among them were Alexander Otti (Sales Manager Club and BENE RUS LLC), Alexander Zhuravlev (SoyuzPetrostroy Association), Yulia Zavileyskaya (DataArt), Sergey Kotyrev (Unisoft), Bernard Vadinger (AEB – Association of European Business in St. Petersburg), Chrostoph Dengler (Mannheimer Swartling, German fund of International Legal Association) and others.

The workshop participants discussed different matters of high importance for managers seeking for alternative ways of business development by means of business relations, including networking. Many interesting topics were in the list of questions to discuss, for example «Networking and organization of business process», «Networking as the carier building instrument», «Sales management with the use of networking» and «Social net as a power source».