Proactive Networking for Career Growth with Steve Dalton

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.

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All registrations include:

• Access to the webinar and the chance to ask questions live
• Catch-up recording of the webinar
• A bonus materials resource pack including slides and support materials.

Steve Dalton was inspired by his students' difficult job searches during the 2008 financial crisis, so the then-Duke MBA career coach set out to create the first set of job search instructions to replace the ubiquitous networking “tips” which only worked for a select few.

Steve has since delivered hundreds of workshops on his advocacy-building methods for both universities and employers following the success of his first book, The 2-Hour Job Search, which was published by Penguin Random House’s Ten Speed Press in 2012.

His books – including his 2021 follow-up The Job Closer – are both Amazon #1 best-sellers and have now sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide. Their “recipes” are currently taught at over 100 universities worldwide, and Dalton himself is a frequent guest speaker at top universities and Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to career services, Dalton was a chemical engineer, strategy consultant, and marketer. Dalton holds an MBA from Duke and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western University. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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