Networking Skills for Career Growth

September 11, 2024 | Online :: Central Time

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Many professionals struggle to effectively build and leverage their network, missing out on critical opportunities for advancement. Without a clear understanding of social capital and strategic networking practices, you may find your efforts scattered and unproductive.

Our transformative course is the solution to these challenges. Through engaging discussions, practical exercises, and strategic planning, you’ll learn to:

• Assess Your Network: Accurately measure the size, structure, composition, and focus of your current network to identify strengths and areas for improvement
• Understand Social Capital: Grasp the importance of social capital and how it can significantly impact your life and career
• Build Effective Strategies: Implement both internal and external strategies to expand and strengthen your network, ensuring it serves your goals
• Create an Action Plan: Develop a personalized action plan with key takeaways and steps to leverage your social capital effectively

Don’t let your networking potential go untapped. Register now and transform your connections into powerful assets for your future success!

Learning Outcomes

• Identify strengths and areas for improvement in current networking practices
• Reflect on and document existing networking strategies
• Define social capital and explain its significance in professional contexts
• Discuss the interconnections between financial, human, and social capital
• Calculate the size of your existing network
• Analyze the organizational structure, diversity, and composition of your network
• Identify the primary focus areas of your network connections
• Explore and implement internal strategies to enhance social capital within your current network
• Discover external strategies to expand your network
• Identify and develop new approaches to building social capital
• Develop a personalized action plan to effectively leverage your social capital for career growth
• Commit to actionable steps to continuously grow and leverage social capital for ongoing success

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 : Central Time

9:00 – 9:05 a.m. :: Overview and Instructions

9:05 – 9:30 a.m. :: Welcome & Introductions

• Welcome address
• Overview of the day’s agenda
• Ice Breaker Activity

9:30 – 9:45 a.m. :: Document Your Current Reality

Reflect on and discuss your existing networking practices, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.

• Discussion Questions:
  • What networking strategies do you currently employ?  
  • What works? 
  • What doesn’t?

9:45 – 10:45 a.m. :: What is Social Capital?

• Discussion Question: What is capital?
• Social capital defined: An explanation of what social capital is and its significance
• How are financial, human, and social capital linked? Exploring the interconnections between different forms of capital
• Is one more important than the others? A thought-provoking discussion on the relative importance of various types of capital

10:45 – 11:00 a.m. :: Morning Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. :: Step 1 – Assess Your Current Social Capital

• Exercise: Calculate the size of your network
  Measure the extent of your existing network
• Exercise: Determine the structure
  Analyze the organizational structure of your network
• Exercise: Assess the composition
  Evaluate the diversity and composition of your network
• Exercise: Identify the focus
  Determine the primary focus areas of your network connections
• Debrief

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. :: Lunch Break

1:00 – 3:30 p.m. :: Step 2 – Build Additional Social Capital

• Internal strategies
  Explore methods to enhance social capital within your current network
• External strategies
  Learn strategies for expanding your network beyond existing connections
• Exercise: Identify new strategies to employ
  Develop new approaches to building social capital
• Debrief

3:30 – 3:45 p.m. :: Afternoon Break

3:45 – 5:00 p.m. :: Step 3 – Leverage Your Social Capital 

• Care and feeding techniques
  Best practices for maintaining and nurturing your network
• Exercise: My Call to Action
• Key Takeaways & Action Steps: Recap the day’s key insights and actionable steps, empowering you to integrate newfound wisdom into your daily life
• Q&A and Closing Remarks: Engage in a lively Q&A session, clarifying any remaining questions and receiving personalized guidance from our expert coach

5:00 p.m. :: Course Conclusion

 

Dawn Andrews, Founder and Principal, Access Leadership Coaching; Formerly Assistant General Counsel at San Diego Gas & Electric

A proven transformational coach, facilitator, and trainer, certified in Results Coaching™ by the NeuroLeadership Institute, Dawn is experienced in helping professionals, leaders, and teams break through boundaries to access their full personal and professional potential through individual and group coaching, training and development. Dawn spent a total of eighteen years at one of the world’s largest energy companies, including leadership roles in labor and employment law, diversity and inclusion, and ethics and workplace culture. Prior to that, she was an attorney at a large international law firm for seven years. Each of these roles afforded Dawn the opportunity to coach, train, and counsel employees from the mailroom to the C-suite on a variety of issues that inform her coaching and training today.

We will be using Microsoft Teams to facilitate your participation in the upcoming event. You do not need to have an existing Teams account in order to participate in the broadcast – the course will play in your browser and you will have the option of using a microphone to speak with the room and ask questions, or type any questions in via the chat window and our on-site representative will relay your question to the instructor.

• Microsoft recommends downloading and installing the Teams app if possible. You may also use the Edge browser or Chrome.
• You will receive a separate email with a unique link to a personalized landing page which will include links to join all sessions of this event.
• If you are using a microphone, please ensure that it is muted until such time as you need to ask a question.
• The remote meeting connection will be open approximately 30 minutes before the start of the course. We encourage you to connect as early as possible in case you experience any unforeseen problems.

Please Note: This event is being conducted entirely online. All attendees will connect and attend from their computer, one connection per purchase. For details please see our FAQ

If you are unable to attend at the scheduled date and time, we make recordings available to all attendees for 7 days after the event

REGISTER NOW FOR THIS EVENT:

Networking Skills for Career Growth

September 11, 2024 | Online

Your registration may be transferred to a member of your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the event. Cancellations must be received on or before August 09, 2024 in order to be refunded and will be subject to a US $195.00 processing fee per registrant. No refunds will be made after this date. Cancellations received after this date will create a credit of the tuition (less processing fee) good toward any other EUCI event. This credit will be good for six months from the cancellation date. In the event of non-attendance, all registration fees will be forfeited. In case of conference cancellation, EUCIs liability is limited to refund of the event registration fee only. For more information regarding administrative policies, such as complaints and refunds, please contact our offices at 303-770-8800

Credits

EUCI is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.

EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 0.7 CEUs for this event.

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Upon successful completion of this event, program participants interested in receiving CPE credits will receive a certificate of completion.

Course CPE Credits: 7.5
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None

EUCI is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its web site: www.nasbaregistry.org