Networking & Building Relationships
- 5 Courses | 2h 12m 18s
- 10 Books | 23h 13m
- 10 Audiobooks | 64h 55m 45s
Building relationships takes time, effort, and mutual interest. Learn to build and nurture your professional networks for success. Most job opportunities are discovered through networking. Here, you'll discover how to connect with people you already know, nurture your connections, maintain your professional network, and bolster your career.
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Building Rapport through Strong Collaboration
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Building Rapport through Strong Collaboration
Learning to collaborate well can help you manage the inevitable conflicts that arise in any relationship. And this holds true even in the workplace. Well-managed conflicts can be a healthy practice and valuable for both self-growth and business growth, giving you an opportunity to learn others' interests and perspectives, and teaching you how to approach all interactions with empathy. In this course, you'll learn to identify the strong interpersonal skills that help in successful collaboration. You'll also learn to identify ground rules and boundaries that will help you keep difficult conversations on track, effective strategies to defuse conflict before it goes out of control, and methods to help you create win-win situations in interpersonal conflicts.
6 videos |
22m
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Creating a Solid Support Base through Peer Relationships
Developing and maintaining relationships with your peers at work can lead to success for both you as an individual, and for your organization. A supportive peer network can provide you with a wide variety of expertise and institutional knowledge and enable you to leverage other people's networks. The workplace of today poses some challenges with diversity in workforce and remote teams who are separated physically. In this course, you'll explore how to identify the different peers in your organization who may be important in meeting your goals or may form a support base for you. You'll also learn how to develop and maintain solid, mutually beneficial relationships with the different peers in any environment.
7 videos |
27m
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Building a Circle of Connections for Networking Success
When you're serious about advancing your career, you need to build strong professional relationships and maintain an effective circle of connections. Whether it's for executive networking or general business networking, this course covers the essential communication and professional networking skills needed to establish a solid network. In this course, you'll learn about professional networking skills, including strategies for building rapport with new connections during networking opportunities and best practices for maintaining your network so that your connections can help you achieve professional success.
7 videos |
28m
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Building a Win-win Relationship with Your Manager
Your relationship with your manager has a huge impact on both of your careers. Frankly, you depend upon each other for success. Your manager's support, guidance, and direction help you do your job better. And your good work makes your manager look good. Effectively managing this relationship can increase your productivity, help you meet your personal career goals, and last but not least, make your time at work more enjoyable and rewarding. In this course, you will learn the importance of managing relationships, and ways to build great manager relationships by recognizing their agenda and management style. You will also learn strategies for building a strong professional relationship with your manager, and various ways you can become aligned with your manager. You will find that to work more effectively with your manager, you need to develop a rapport and make workplace interactions mutually beneficial (win-win).
7 videos |
29m
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Be Liked and Respected in the Workplace
Eighty percent of your day is spent at work. Whether you commute to an office or work from home, to a huge degree your professional success depends on your likability. Think about all your professional interactions; you work on team projects, collaborate on conference calls, sit in meetings, talk to clients, etc. These and more are situations that require your ability to be liked. However, it's not a popularity contest. Being liked doesn't mean you give up your professional integrity. Although it's not possible to be liked by everyone, this course teaches you techniques to be likable and respected by your colleagues and boss. You will also learn how to ‘get over it' when someone in the workplace does not like you.
7 videos |
23m
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BOOK SUMMARY
The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship Building Skills Every Leader Needs NowThe Art of Connection explores how success and happiness can be achieved and enhanced by forging strong social ties with others-both professionally and at home. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Michael J. Gelb
BOOK SUMMARY
Networking For People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide For Introverts, The Overwhelmed, And The Under ConnectedNetworking for People Who Hate Networking sets out to upend our preconceived notions about introverts and extroverts, and offers useful guidelines to get the most out of your networking opportunities. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Devora Zack
BOOK SUMMARY
Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great JobIn Highly Effective Networking, author Orville Pierson provides a common-sense approach to using networking when seeking employment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
12m
By Orville Pierson
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Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative WorldUnveiling eight indispensable competencies for the new Network-Oriented Workforce, this essential book gives you the tools you need to meet goals, execute strategies, foster innovation, and make yourself invaluable to your organization.
3h 46m
By André Alphonso, Anne Baber, Jim Wylde, Lynne Waymon
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The Relationship Engine: Connecting with the People Who Power Your BusinessGiving you the tools you need to become an intentional, masterful relationship-builder, this book helps you establish common ground, focus on collaboration instead of command, put people before process, demonstrate worthy intent, and make every interaction matter.
2h 19m
By Ed Wallace
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Successful Networking: How to Build New Networks for Career or Company ProgressionRemoving the fear factor and encouraging people to make the effort to network for success, this informative book gives you advice and guidance on handling any social or workplace situation that could be awkward.
3h 2m
By Frances Kay
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The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking . . . Because People Do Business with People They LikeFeaturing activities, self-assessment quizzes, and real-life anecdotes from professional and social settings, this practical book shows readers how to identify what's likable in themselves and create honest, authentic interactions that become "wins" for all parties involved.
3h 24m
By Michelle Tillis Lederman
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The Complete Guide to Professional Networking: The Secrets of Online and Offline SuccessFeaturing interviews with some of the world's most successful networking experts to back up techniques and suggested strategies, this book demonstrates how to use networking in person and online together successfully for powerful results.
2h 54m
By Simon Ellinas, Simon Phillips
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Networking for Nerds: Find, Access and Land Hidden Game-Changing Career Opportunities EverywhereAuthored by award-winning entrepreneur and strategic career planning expert Alaina G. Levine, this book emphasizes practical advice on how and why to network, and will show you how to formulate and execute a strategic networking plan that is dynamic, multidimensional, and leverages social media platforms and other networking channels.
5h 22m
By Alaina G. Levine
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Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live WithoutDrawing on research and case studies from topics as diverse as management, marriage, and architecture, this fast-paced and inviting book challenges long-held assumptions people have about their relationships.
1h 54m
By Tom Rath
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great JobIn Highly Effective Networking, author Orville Pierson provides a common-sense approach to using networking when seeking employment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m
By Orville Pierson
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Five Keys to Powerful Business Relationships: How to Become More Productive, Effective and InfluentialThe Five Keys to Powerful Business Relationships thoroughly illuminates the skills you need to create, maintain, and nurture relationships through reflection, communication, and sincerity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
22m 38s
By Joseph Sperry, Sallie Sherman, Steve Vucelich
Audiobook
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in RelationshipsThis audio edition offers easy and effective sure-fire success techniques to help you make a dynamite first impression; master small talk, big talk, and body language; sound like an insider in any crowd; feed someone's ego; work a party like a politician; and much more. Read by the authors.
8h 59m 29s
By Joyce Bean, Leil Lowndes
Audiobook
Getting Relationships Right: How to Build Resilience and Thrive in Life, Love, and WorkThis audio edition shares the principles and tools that can make any relationship, from personal to professional, healthier and more resilient.
7h 18m 57s
By Melanie Joy
Audiobook
Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success--And Won't Let You FailThis audio edition reveals that the real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of "lifeline relationships."
10h 34m 33s
By Keith Ferrazzi
Audiobook
It's Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine RelationshipsThis audio edition shows how each and every one of us can use the power of netgiving-of helping others-to expand our world and achieve our goals, and make a difference in our job, our career, and our community.
8h 38m 45s
By Tommy Spaulding
Audiobook
Click: The Magic of Instant ConnectionsThis audio edition is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes us click with certain people, or become fully immersed in whatever activity or situation we're involved in.
4h 33m 14s
By Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
Audiobook
Networking For People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide For Introverts, The Overwhelmed, And The Under ConnectedThis audio edition shows how the networking-averse can succeed by working with the very traits that make them hate traditional networking.
4h 1m 52s
By Devora Zack
Audiobook
Got Your Attention? How to Create Intrigue and Connect with AnyoneThis audio edition explains how to replace boring, overlong, one-way communications with concise, compelling, mutually rewarding two-way interactions that add value for all involved. Read by the author.
6h 13m 56s
By Sam Horn
Audiobook
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, Expanded and UpdatedThis audio edition reveals that what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships - so that everyone wins.
13h 49m 21s
By Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Building Collaborative Relationships
Strong collaboration is vital to creating and sustaining competitive advantage. Foster collaboration skills among your teams for growth and innovation. Building relationships takes time, effort, and mutual interest. Learn to nurture your professional networks for success through successful relationship building and management. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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