Build Connections. Drive Success Workshop in Auckland

Let's mix, mingle, and make connections at our Business Networking event - get ready to grow your contacts and expand your opportunities!
About this Event

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate

Language: English

Duration: 1 Day

Credits: 8

Refreshments: Snacks, Beverages and Lunch included in a classroom session

Course Delivery: Classroom

Offers: Group of 5 - 10 people 10% Discount, Group of 11 - 20 people 15% Discount

Course Overview:

This networking skills training will help you to build a professional reputation and develop a network of connections through the two key methods available to you; face-to-face and online.

You will discover how to effectively combine these two approaches and create a strategy for networking success that will generate your own community and actively grow your personal network. This will result in an improved performance in your approach to networking and consequently provide opportunities and prospects that will increase your business success.

The training provides you with the tools and techniques to both plan a successful, strategic approach to networking and develop your personal communication skills, which will ensure you build effective business relationships.

Course Contents:

Effective Networking Strategies and Techniques – Business Networking Training

Networking has become a crucial factor in the modern workplace. It is the most effective method of developing your business or career and is a key component of your personal brand. You need to be able to build strong business relationships, develop a level of personal credibility and increase your network of contacts in order to enhance your visibility and create opportunities for yourself and your organization.

Perhaps you’re looking to improve the networking performance of a management or sales team. Or you want to include networking skills training as part of management and leadership training programs. Whatever your need, we provide you with a comprehensive networking skills training course to make your life easy.

This business networking training is aimed at helping you develop your business or career. You will help ensure you have the skills, knowledge and techniques to develop a joined-up networking strategy that gets you the outcomes you want.

You will also be encouraged to develop the correct behaviors and attitudes to help build your visibility and credibility through networking so that you develop strong working relationships that last.

This training is highly interactive and includes lots of activities and exercises to stimulate discussion and develop learning opportunities.

Perhaps you’re looking to improve the networking performance of a management or sales team. Or you want to include networking skills training as part of management and leadership training programs. Whatever your need, we will provide you with a comprehensive networking skills training course to make your life easy.

Course Feature:

At the end of this business networking skills training, you will be able to:

Develop a successful networking strategy
Maximize their effectiveness with face-to-face and online networking opportunities
Improve their approach, attitude and behaviors when networking
Create a plan for networking that will help them meet their goals

Certification:

Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from Leadflake.

Who can attend?

Anybody who is interested in learning Business Networking Skills.

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Agenda
Why Network?

Info: Establishing the importance of networking with some shocking statistics and an activity that defines the importance of networking to the individual. This is followed by some insight into the key aims of a networking strategy, what puts people off as well as some personal revelations about networking

Increase Your Business Presence

Info: Looking at the components of a strong business presence, including; credibility, personal brand, visibility and social capital.

Developing a Networkers Attitude

Info: An exercise that clarifies the perfect attitudes and behaviors of great networkers and comparing the participants against this. Thus, identifying areas for development.

Face to Face Networking

Info: An overview and insight into the main types of face-to-face networking opportunities available with the benefits and pitfalls of each.

Online Networking

Info: An overview of the different social media and online networking tools and how to get the best out of them. Includes; LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and online forums.

Communication Skills for Networking Success

Info: Ensuring a good first impression, creating an opening sound bite and writing an online profile that promotes and engages.

Developing a Conversation

Info: Building on the opening sound bite and developing a conversation through good questioning techniques and following a selection of key networking rules. Including an activity to test and practice the skills.

Working a Room

Info: A fun activity that embeds and develops learning while encouraging practice and communication. This activity covers 10 of the main skills required to work a room.

Breaking into a Group

Info: Identifying body language to spot when a group or pair is open to new people entering the conversation or would rather not encourage participation. Knowing how to break into a group, what to say and how to remain professional.

Exiting a Conversation

Info: Developing some techniques to extricate oneself from a conversation without causing embarrassment or rudeness.

The Follow Up

Info: Using a structure to identify the most important contacts created and establishing when and how to follow up with each group. Includes example follow up email and a chance to develop their own.

Creating a Network Plan

Info: Participants are provided with a networking action plan to review and complete. This sets them on the journey of developing their networking skills and ensures they have a strategy and goals to target.