Networking with confidence to support your Career

The art of Networking is a skill that blends communication, connecting, confidence and an oportunist attitude as a means of building professional relationships with others to help your career develop.

Networking can often seem very daunting. With some simple but effective tips and techniques you can arm yourself with the tools which will give you the confidence to meet new people, have meaningful conversations and deliver your message with clarity and conviction. Face to face, one-to-ones, new client meetings, phone calls or conferences, the power of your message lies with you. Verbally and physically are you communicating clearly, concisely and confidently? You can never make a second first impression. Make your next moment count and start building meaningful working relationships.

• How well do you communicate? In new situations with strangers, do you have meaningful, clear, concise, convicted conversations?
• Do you have a positive opportunistic attitude? Do you see every new introduction as an opportunity for building productive working relationships?
• How good is your NVC or Non Verbal Communication? Are you aware of all the things you say, the messages you put out, without opening your mouth? How well can you read other people?
• EVERY connection in business is an opportunity to share ideas, collaborate, discuss, trade and most importantly, to learn. How can we conquer our fear to see networking this way?

Join us to learn some really practical techniques to develop your confidence when meeting new people for the first time . We'll look at how and why you should practise your skills in order to make networking a positive and productive experience to allow you to be open to potential connections and to build solid working relationships.

Webinars are delivered via Microsoft Teams

For new customers, we recommend that you have an appointment with a National Careers Service adviser before the webinar takes place.

In the appointment the careers adviser will help you to:

• explore different careers and options
• review your strengths, skills and develop your career goals
• plan your next steps
• make the best use of high-quality, career-related tools
• understand the local job market
• access learning, training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, including making applications
• develop your CV, interview skills and job searching techniques
• implement your plan of action.

By giving us your personal information you are consenting to be contacted by telephone or email by the National Careers Service to arrange an appointment with a careers adviser prior to the webinar

Customers' information is collected so that the Department for Education can carry out its functions, information will be handled in accordance with the principles and laws of data protection and at no time will it be used for purposes that are not related to the delivery of careers advice by the National Careers Service. For further details of how customer data is used, please view the privacy policy on the National Careers Service website; https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/help/privacy-and-cookies (or at bit.ly/NcsPrivacy2)

What else do I need to know?

There may be other participants in the session, so you must take care not to reveal any of your personal data at any time. Our recommendation is that you do not supply, verbally or on screen, your full name, email address, telephone number or any other information which could identify you to other participants on the call. You must not share such data, to safeguard your interests and so that you do not make yourself vulnerable to any malicious activity. Some presentations may be recorded for training purposes.

The link for this webinar will be sent to you afew days before the event.