Building Your Professional Network


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
When you're serious about advancing your career, you need to build strong professional relationships and maintain an effective network of contacts. 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. It includes strategies for building rapport with new contacts during networking opportunities and 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.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.4

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
  • Course Number:
    apd_04_a02_bs_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone