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Improve Your Personal Networking Skills

Improve Your Personal Networking Skills

Networking is the art of making personal connections. Whether you're an extrovert or an introvert, networking is a powerful way to operate -- and it's as much about helping others as it is about helping yourself. Good networking is an easy-to-learn habit that will lead to all kinds of opportunities in both your professional and personal life. This course offers helpful tips and strategies for seeking out new people, learning about them, and maintaining connections once they're made.

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Lesson 1: Why Networks Are Powerful, and How They Work

Networking is a powerful way to operate and is as much about helping others as it is about helping yourself. In this lesson, you'll learn about the power of networks and what they can do for you both personally and professionally.

Lesson 2: Networking Basics

This lesson looks at some of the dos and don'ts of networking and introduces a few practical habits that can help even the most reluctant networkers change their ways. You'll learn how to network with individuals, groups, and on the Internet.

Lesson 3: Networking for Jobs

There are three stages in networking for jobs: prospecting, making contacts, and conducting informational interviews. This lesson covers each stage in detail, and gives you practical tips you can start using now to network your way into a job.

Lesson 4: Networking for Your Business

Technological change, a knowledge economy, and the unreliability of long-term employment lead many people to start businesses of their own. In this lesson, business owners will learn how networking is essential to survival.

Lesson 5: Networking for Life

The choice of whether or not to be a networker can have a profound impact on the rest of your life. In this lesson, you'll learn what a personal network is and how it can expand your social circle this week, this month, and this year.

Lesson 6: Bringing It All Together

You should now have a basic understanding of how to network and what to expect from it. This lesson reviews the things you should and should not do, and wraps up with advice for keeping your networking activities effective and on track.

What You'll Learn

  • Develop proven interpersonal skills to woo and wow any potential prospect
  • Learn to enter a room full of strangers and start "hob-nobbing"
  • Learn what expressions to never say
  • Learn the rules of effective small talk

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