Building Your Personal Brand and Networking for Success

Course Overview

60% of people achieve promotion through who they know, not what they know. This programme is designed to help you build your personal brand and give you the confidence and skills to become a successful networker and increase your visibility and presence.

Audience

Suitable for administrators, secretaries & PAs, who want to heighten their profile and expand their network in order to build relationships and personal success.

Skills Gained

By the end of this programme you will be able to:

• Identify your own personal qualities and build your personal brand.
• Explain the benefits of successful networking.
• Identify how to expand your network.
• Develop the skills and use your personal brand to become a successful networker.
• Feel confident to network naturally and comfortably back in the workplace.

Course Outline

Networking and Building your Presence - the Benefits

• Its not what you know, its who you know
• Understanding networking
• The rewards brought by successful networking
• Examining your own network - do you have enough high profile contacts?
• Where to look for new contacts

Networking for Success

• Mirroring the best networkers
• Listening to learn
• Following up contacts
• Dealing with different behaviours
• The rules of networking etiquette and what NOT to do

Creating your own Personal Brand

• Gain an understanding of your uniqueness, values and goals
• Learn to stand out from the crowd
• Make first impressions last
• Dress to impress
• Your 60 second verbal business card

Building your Confidence

• Understand and overcome your personal doubts and fears
• To recognise and build on your strengths
• Building yourself up instead of knocking yourself down
• Believing in yourself in order to succeed

Building Your Personal Brand and Networking for Success / SON