Networking for Success: Designing Your Reputation
Networking for Success: Designing Your Reputation is a half-day workshop that teaches participants the advantages of networking, practical strategies for expanding a professional network, and how to maintain the network once established. Introverts and extroverts alike can benefit from learning how to create and effectively leverage a strong professional network. Through group discussions, participants will define their reputation, explain its significance, and discover how it is created. Participants will assess their current reputation and practice ways of effectively promoting themselves through networking. Follow-up individual coaching sessions will be available.
Learning Objectives
Following the session participants will be able to:
- Define what it means to network.
- Assess and define their reputation.
- Create their 90-second introduction.
- Identify active listening guidelines.
- Explain and apply the five step process to increase networking success.
- Initiate, prepare, and conduct an informational interview.
- Identify the five steps to conducting a networking meeting.
- Apply effective communication skills in person, on the phone and via e-mail.
Course Duration
- ½-day
Dr Oscar Grant
Senior consultant, Trainer, and Mediator
Oscar Grant is a senior consultant, trainer, and mediator with over twenty years experience developing, organizing, and managing large and small organizations, non-profit agencies, and boards of directors specializing in the areas of public health, school reform and law enforcement. He has knowledge and skills in: non-profit management, personnel management, advocacy, media campaigns, and community organizing with public officials. Dr. Grant has over 15 years as a nationally recognized public speaker and certified trainer in the fields of diversity, cross-cultural awareness, workplace violence, employment equity, mentoring and executive coaching.