Secrets of Successful Networking: Collect Opportunities, Not Business Cards

In a world of hybrid work and virtual meetings, our ability to make connections and build professional relationships is important. Whether we’re attending an industry conference or a company-wide meeting, we want to feel comfortable and confident. This interactive workshop shows you how to maximize in-person networking opportunities, including how to:

• Approach business events with a “host” mindset

• “Work the room” with confidence

• Position yourself and your employer as industry experts

• Be prepared with questions to engage others in conversation

• Identify networking opportunities that work for you

• Follow-up with people you meet and Maintain your networK

Interactive networking workshops can be tailored to fit the specific needs of your business, industry or profession. If you want to read more about the topic of networking, here’s a Harvard Business Review article about learning to love networking and a Wall Street Journal article about challenges for young professionals in a post-pandemic workplace.

telling your story

Our ability to tell our story is more important than ever. Attention spans are short and distractions are everywhere. Whether you’re speaking to an audience or talking to a donor, you may have only a few minutes to tell the story of your organization. Telling Your Story workshops and coaching focus on how to: 

• Tailor your message to fit the audience

• Communicate your most important points

• Explain complex information in a simple manner

• incorporate concrete examples (not a laundry list of services)

• Speak with confidence

• Make the asK

Telling Your Story workshops can be customized for specific audiences, such as nonprofit board members or staff. Workshops prepare members of your organization to deliver a message that is consistent, but not identical. By encouraging people to put the organization’s messages in their own words, everyone in your organization learns how to tell the story.