Smarter Networking

Smarter Networking is about establishing and nurturing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with a variety of people, and is critical for long-term career success. Investing in your professional and personal relationships pays dividends, throughout your career, in a myriad of ways.

The balance of time in this session can be shifted depending on the experience of participants. New joiners may need more time understanding the value of networking and the skills under-pinning it, whilst those with more experience may want to spend more time on a plan for deepening their professional connections.

Course Content

Why Networking is Important

The data to support the value of networking.

Skills and Behaviours for Networking

Mindset.
Identifying your skills strengths and de-railers.

What Power do you Have?

What can you offer to your network?
Owning the first impression (The Cuddy/Fiske Warmth & Competence model).
What’s your brand / what do you want your brand to be?

Deepening Professional Relationships over Time

Analyse, De-layer, Diversify, Capitalise (Cross and Thomas’ (HBR artice, 2011).
Identifying opportunities for networking in a virtual world.

Course Approach

CHALLENGE

The mind-set that networking is a thing to be dreaded, an unpleasant distraction from “real” work, and only something to be thought about when you are looking for a new role.

CREATE

Confidence and competence to build a network which is meaningful to you.
Connections with purpose.

CHANGE

Our mind-set, and our behaviours with regard to networking.

Embedding Success

Post programme activities to support the transfer of learning and building of habits.

CHALLENGE

Review your network, and reconnect with a minimum of 5 “weak ties”.

Your Networking course is a chance to network: how can you connect the participants on this course to sustain your learning?

CREATE

Diarise time over the next month which is dedicated to connecting with others, internally or externally.

CHANGE

Your mind-set about networking – find ways to make it more fun/more rewarding/more meaningful – whatever you want it to be!

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96%

of participants felt more confident in their role, following an Alpha commercial leadership course.

Why study with Alpha?

Innovation and creativity born from experience

We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

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We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

Generation Proof

Quality and innovation, using current market and industry best practices, have made us a trusted partner in delivering dynamic and motivating training for the financial and capital markets. Our programmes are generation proof and responsive to evolving learner needs and styles. Our solutions use a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy that expands beyond relationships between the learner and learning provider. We create connections with managers, peers and the wider business to drive impactful return on investment..

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