Curriculum
What you’ll learn:
- Overcoming normal fears about networking
- What are top mistakes people are making when networking for work?
- How to prioritize and prepare
- How to survive networking events – and even ways to avoid most of them
- How to reconnect after losing touch with past colleagues or friends?
- Body language – what it says and what it means
- Technologies that can help you manage your contacts and stay in touch
- Perfecting your elevator pitch
- Email, voicemail, snail mail – when to use which
- Getting into conversations and …. getting out!
- Overlooked networking opportunities – have you seen the arrow in the FedEx logo?
- Leverage your current network and expand without diluting relationships
- Learn how to use LinkedIn, Facebook and other social networking sites for your search
- Time management tips to help you juggle networking and doing your work
- Ask questions; get feedback; take action
Call agenda:
- 10:30 am – Call begins with welcome remarks. (NOTE: Time are in EST, please adjust accordingly)
- 10:35 am – Brief review of the agenda
- 10:40 am – I will lead a discussion about two chapters of Networking for Career Success as a foundation for the week’s call
- 11:00 am – Open the call for questions about discussion
- 11:10 am – I’ll answer questions that were emailed to me throughout the week
- 11:20 am – Introduce the assignment for the week
- 11:30 am – Call ends
- NOTE: This may vary as I learn from all of you what is working and what isn’t
