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Friday 10th February 2012

Be the Strategic Networker

womenintechnology is excited to offer you this full-day workshop that provides the tools to help you create visibility for yourself. This is accomplished by being able to strategically identify key networks and network effectively and efficiently within and outside your spheres of influence in order to achieve success.
  • Networking Strategy: Developing your goals, short-term and long term objectives.
  • Where? What? Who?: Preparation, identifying informal/formal networks
  • Creating your Personal Visibility Plan: Taking control and building your credibility in your desired areas; getting in front of your desired contacts. 
  • Making a Lasting Impact: First impressions and body language; managing personal space; make lasting impressions with your overall corporate image; subtle signals - use colour to convey a message;  communicating with confidence and making introductions: the handshake, the posture and body language.
  • Walking the talk: Exuding Integrity – building trust; facilitating information; making connection - six degrees of separation; exchanging business cards.
  • Creating and Maintaining Relationships: making contact; arranging follow-up meetings and researching your networks and spheres of influence.


You will leave with:

  • The knowledge to take control of your own destiny.
  • Understanding how to build one-to-one personal relationships as strong catalysts for professional and personal success.
  • Taking control of your own Personal Visibility Plan for the benefit of your personal development and the business.
  • Insight on how to strategically penetrate networks that were once out of your reach.
  • Building bridges: successfully identifying networks to enable business development and project execution.


This session was led by Christina Ioannidis.