1 day
Description:
This class will help you build the tools to initiate a networking plan with specific goals, establish relationships that are meaningful and long-term, use electronic media to expand your network, and develop ways to promote yourself through your networking. Knowing how to network is an important skill for everyone to have. To get a new job, secure a promotion, publicize your favorite cause, or build a business, you have to create a networking strategy. Everyone has a personal networking style, and this workshop will help you understand your style, and design an approach that will work for you.
Class Outline
Part 1: Understanding Successful Networking
Part 2: Building Networking Relationships
Part 3: Refining Your Professional Presence
Part 4: Bell-Ringing Telephone Techniques
Part 5: Networking via E-Mail and the Internet
Part 6: The Networking Power of Self-Promotion
Part 7: Special Networking Challenges: Novices and Veterans
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Identify four forms of communication
Lesson 2: Self-assessment, “What’s My Communication Style?”
Lesson 3: Learn how “speed read” another person’s communication style
Lesson 4: Understand how to adopt your style to improve communication with others
Lesson 5: Reflect on the impact that personal behavior preferences have previously had or are currently having in the student’s personal and professional life.
Lesson 6: Determine an action plan to use newly acquired knowledge of communication styles to improve existing personal and professional relationships
Lesson 7: Acknowledge and examine the impact of differing individual styles represented by existing teams within the organization.
Lesson 8: Creating Positive Relationships
Lesson 9: Communication Basics
Lesson 10: Communication Barriers
Lesson 11: Asking Questions
Lesson 12: Listening Skills
Lesson 13: Body Language
Lesson 14: Frame of reference
Lesson 15: Techniques for the workplace
Lesson 16: Assertiveness
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