Proactive Networking for Career Growth

This free online professional development webinar hosted by Sensible Media is open to Leeds University Business School alumni, students and staff members.

Alumni and Students: Register here for the webinar: Proactive Networking for Career Growth

Staff: Register here for the webinar: Proactive Networking for Career Growth

To attract new opportunities (and promotions and job offers) talent and hard work clearly help. But in large organisations, the variety and depth of your relationships outside your team often determines the final result.

Unfortunately, few of us intuitively know how to build a network of relationships at work. Too often, especially early in our career, it feels like people around us are using a “secret handshake” we have not been taught.

In this webinar Steve Dalton, bestselling author of The 2-Hour Job Search and The Job Closer explains his formula for networking for career growth based on:

• Proactively reaching out to colleagues (whether you know them or not)
• Building a large network within your organisation through short informational meetings that turn strangers into advocates

We will also look at different scenarios and how to deal with them, including:

• How to reach out naturally to senior colleagues
• What to say about yourself and your career goals
• Why one-to-one meetings work better than conferences and social events
• Why you don’t need a specific “goal” or “ask” to reach out
• Why and how you can stay “in the loop” and/or be better informed than your colleagues

Everyone who registers will be asked to complete a preliminary survey/audit and we will discuss the results in the webinar.

Reserve your free spot now on Eventbrite to join Steve Dalton live and learn actionable strategies for career growth.

About the speaker

Steve Dalton is the former head of daytime careers at Duke Fuqua School of Business and is the author of The 2-Hour Job Search and The Job Closer published by Ten Speed Press. In 2014 the MBA-CSEA awarded Steve their innovation award for his work. He holds his own MBA from Duke and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western. Steve writes about careers for the Huffington Post and the Financial Times and presents his method at business schools around the world. You can follow Steve's thoughts on job search and its intersection with science and popular culture at www.2hourjobsearch.com and on Twitter (@Dalton_Steve).