4100 - Networking: An Intelligent Approach to Levelling Up Your Leadership Skills
120333238
Language of Delivery
English
Delivery Options
IN-CLASS
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Course Description
Get outside your comfort zone and learn to approach networking with excitement and curiosity. In this course, you’ll learn to create favourable professional impressions, online and in-person, while building meaningful relationships and adopting new practices that help you reach your career and life goals. You’ll create a visual map of your current network, identify gaps and redundancies, and develop strategic goals that address them. You’ll become more comfortable with strangers while learning the true value of giving and receiving referrals. You’ll learn why in times of advanced technologies and AI, it is increasingly important to cultivate foundational human skills such as critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration.Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Develop greater self-awareness with an in-depth understanding of your cultural self and communication styles on approaching new people.
- Become a more effective and strategic leader by analyzing your current network’s scope and your current level of networking activity.
- Examine and recognize how meeting new people can help you reach your professional and personal goals
- Engage with others to identify important networking opportunities and develop actionable strategies to bring distant relationships closer.
- Apply new techniques and tactics in social and professional settings to overcome fears of social rejection, improving communication styles, and building a network of lasting and authentic relationships.
This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in
- Strategic Leadership: Advanced : Required Courses
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Jean is an energetic educator, super connector, and respected business and career coach. She teaches essential smart skills: networking, leadership, mentorship, entrepreneurship, intercultural communications, advanced career management, and creative conflict resolution and negotiation strategies. Jean holds a Diploma in Accounting from Saskatchewan Polytechnic, studied Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, and completed certificates in Digital Marketing Management and Advanced Marketing from the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (SCS). She is a proud recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contribution in supporting young entrepreneurs. She is a volunteer member of University of Toronto SCS’s EDI Advisory Council and a volunteer mentor for the Faculty of Arts & Science Centre for Entrepreneurship’s Venture Mentoring Service. Jean currently lives in Toronto beside a 150-year-old forest and is working on her first book on field guide for professional networking and completing her collection of memoir essays.