Local Enterprise Week - Stop Hesitating: Start Networking! - Monday 6th March 2023

Stop Hesitating: Start Networking!

Networking is a critical skill for any business professional.

Being able to attend dinners, conferences, events and connect confidently with important stakeholders and clients in an easy and engaging style, is necessary for any business professional who wants to build a strong executive presence, a valued leadership brand and a strong source of business referrals.

Networking is a strategy, not a hope, and anyone can learn it.

What will you learn from this session:

1. Understand the power of personal contact and digital networking in today’s marketplace and businesses.
2. Why Introverts are the best networkers.
3. How to prepare for a networking event and create your networking objective
4. Understanding group dynamics when networking
5. Learn how to successfully introduce yourself to strangers live or in breakout rooms
6. Capture and hold a contact’s attention with excellent conversational skills.
7. Create a structured networking ‘small talk’ conversation.
8. Exit elegantly from any in-person conversation or situation.
9. How to move on and follow-up successfully
10. Get ‘warm’ contact meetings from every event to build your network of influence.

Resources with the Workshop

A copy of the eBook by Sean Weafer; The High Trust Networker.

Bio for Sean Weafer:

Sean Weafer is an international leadership and sales enablement professional and speaker.

He is the author of ‘The Highly Trusted Advisor How to Leads Teams and Win Clients in the Hybrid Age’ and an authority on how to experts transform into influencers in today’s world.

In this fun an engaging presentation Sean will share the secrets of how to make personal contact networking work for you.