Building a Circle of Connections for Networking Success
Building a Circle of Connections for Networking Success
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- identify how a business network can help you succeed at work
- identify key practices to build networking connections
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills to Build Your Network
- identify best practices for attracting new and diverse network connections
- identify strategies for building rapport with new network contacts
- recognize strategies you can use to maintain your business network
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Skills to Develop Your Business Connections
- reflect on what you've learned
When you're serious about advancing your career, you need to build strong professional relationships and maintain an effective circle of connections. Whether it's for executive networking or general business networking, this course covers the essential communication and professional networking skills needed to establish a solid network. In this course, you'll learn about professional networking skills, including strategies for building rapport with new connections during networking opportunities and best practices for maintaining your network so that your connections can help you achieve professional success.
Building a Win-win Relationship with Your Manager
Building a Win-win Relationship with Your Manager
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- recognize the key benefits of building a healthy relationship with your manager
- identify strategies to better interact with your manager based on their work style
- Knowledge Check: Reviewing Your Skills in Adapting to Your Manager
- recognize questions you can ask to help you align your communication style with your manager’s
- identify methods to overcome relationship challenges with your manager
- identify best practices for optimizing your collaboration with your manager
- Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Working with Your Manager
- reflect on what you've learned
Your relationship with your manager has a huge impact on both of your careers. Frankly, you depend upon each other for success. Your manager's support, guidance, and direction help you do your job better. And your good work makes your manager look good. Effectively managing this relationship can increase your productivity, help you meet your personal career goals, and last but not least, make your time at work more enjoyable and rewarding. In this course, you will learn the importance of managing relationships, and ways to build great manager relationships by recognizing their agenda and management style. You will also learn strategies for building a strong professional relationship with your manager, and various ways you can become aligned with your manager. You will find that to work more effectively with your manager, you need to develop a rapport and make workplace interactions mutually beneficial (win-win).
Creating a Solid Support Base through Peer Relationships
Creating a Solid Support Base through Peer Relationships
- discover the key concepts covered in this course
- identify the characteristics of key peers
- recognize the benefits of having a peer support system at work
- Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Understanding your Peers
- recognize ways to adjust to various work styles of peers
- recognize strategies to embrace the unique talents of your peers
- identify techniques to foster strategic relationships with peers
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Skills in Building Peer Relationships
- reflect on what you've learned
Developing and maintaining relationships with your peers at work can lead to success for both you as an individual, and for your organization. A supportive peer network can provide you with a wide variety of expertise and institutional knowledge and enable you to leverage other people's networks. The workplace of today poses some challenges with diversity in workforce and remote teams who are separated physically. In this course, you’ll explore how to identify the different peers in your organization who may be important in meeting your goals or may form a support base for you. You’ll also learn how to develop and maintain solid, mutually beneficial relationships with the different peers in any environment.
