Professional Effectiveness
360 Degree Relationships
Building Rapport with Your Boss
Building Your Professional Network
Cultivating Relationships with Your Peers

Building Rapport with Your Boss

Course Number:
apd_04_a03_bs_enus
Lesson Objectives

Building Rapport with Your Boss

  • recognize the benefits of a building a strong relationship with your boss
  • identify methods to build a successful relationship with your boss
  • determine the best methods of assisting your boss's agenda
  • match management styles to associated characteristics
  • identify best practices for adapting to your boss's working style
  • sequence examples of the steps for giving appropriate feedback to your boss
  • use appropriate techniques to start your own business network

Overview/Description
Your boss can be the lifeline to your future. Typically, no one has more influence over your immediate and long-term success than the person to whom you report. Not only can you find enjoyment and reward in your current position, but your boss can be a source of support when you are ready to move ahead with your career. This course teaches strategies for building a strong professional relationship with your boss. It explains various ways you can become aligned with your boss -- even how to give your boss constructive feedback.

Target Audience
Individual contributors who want to develop effective relationships throughout their organization.

Building Your Professional Network

Course Number:
apd_04_a02_bs_enus
Lesson Objectives

Building Your Professional Network

  • identify ways in which a business network is important
  • recognize where to find networking opportunities
  • identify best practices for attracting new network connections
  • match strategies for conversing with new people to appropriate examples
  • recognize strategies you can use to maintain your business network
  • utilize appropriate techniques to start your own business network

Overview/Description
A key factor in advancing your career is using good communication skills to build strong professional relationships and maintain an effective business network of contacts. This course provides you with the essential communication skills required to establish a business network and includes strategies for building rapport with new contacts during networking opportunities. It also covers best practices for maintaining your network so that business contacts can help you achieve your career goals.

Target Audience
Individual contributors who want to develop effective relationships throughout their organization.

Cultivating Relationships with Your Peers

Course Number:
apd_04_a01_bs_enus
Lesson Objectives

Cultivating Relationships with Your Peers

  • identify key benefits of being aware of your working environment
  • classify the political styles of individuals in the workplace
  • recognize the benefits of identifying key peers
  • identify the characteristics of key peers
  • choose examples of effective steps to build strategic peer relationships
  • describe how to keep your peer relationships healthy

Overview/Description
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. This course explores how you can identify the peers in your organization who are especially important in meeting your goals and how to develop and maintain solid, mutually beneficial relationships with these people.

Target Audience
Individual contributors who want to develop effective relationships throughout their organization

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