Professional Networking Skills Masterclass (POSTPONED)

** As of Friday, May 6, 2022, this session has been postponed. **

Do you ever feel awkward when connecting with other professionals you don’t know yet? Have you identified barriers when trying to network? Are there gaps in your network map that might be holding you back in your career? How do you grow your professional community in a way that matches your own personal style of communication?  Where can you even make the time to maintain your connections? And why do today’s organizations see networking skills as a core professional competency?

If you face common challenges with professional networking in today’s world, this interactive masterclass shares methods, best practices, and memorable tactics you can use right away.

We’re drawing from best practices in leadership skills, project management principle-based approaches (PMBOK7), adapted DISC communication strategies, and techniques drawn from today’s virtual events. We’ll help you prepare, initiate, grow and foster a professional community that aligns to both you as a person as well as to your career vision. We’ll address key gaps and barriers, reveal strategies to help you follow-up and how to clearly present one’s professional identity when a networking opportunity arises.

Participants will take part in interactive discussion, activities and simulations to help identify where they can optimize their skills and gain the confidence needed to expand their own leadership communities. This session is tailored specifically for our PDFO participants, and will include relevant exercises and case study.

Participants will leave with more confidence and be prepared to activate some of the tactics. After the session, each participant receives an additional virtual lessons in Small Talk IQ, Network mapping, tools, and an invitation for the follow-up Q&A group coaching session to touch base, share your successes, and answer questions around what you’ve applied.

NOTE: Please come prepared to briefly share examples from your own experience of what’s worked and what hasn’t. Think to virtual or in-person events you’ve attended and be prepared to bring into our discussions:

• A conference you’ve attended in the recent past
• A meeting or event type that you’d like to be more confident in
• A story about how your network has helped you in your career
• An open mind towards redefining the word “networking” for today’s world

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the session, participants will leave with:

• Ways to network that are more aligned to your own style and career vision
• Easy tools to maximize short verbal opportunities for connection
• A step-by-step approach that helps foster conversation authenticity
• Core mindsets you can practice throughout networking situations
• Unique modern ways to foster your network that save you time and energy.
• Ability to identify and address gaps in one’s own professional network, and leave with concrete steps that can expand and activate one’s own leadership community
• Additional Toolkit, offline video deep-dive lessons and a Q&A session with the facilitator one month after workshop to review and discuss successes and address challenges.

FACILITATOR

Rose Hastreiter, Founder, CEO of Leonty3c.com

Project Leadership Advisor, Facilitator, Speaker

Rose is a people-first project leader who cares about your quality of life and authentic human connection. She helps organizations strengthen project ecosystems via human-centric and principle-based approaches to projects and leadership.

As a certified Project Management Professional with over two decades leading projects and organizational advisory, she’s personally instructed over 25,000 adults in the professional development arenas of time and self-management, communication, project management, and leadership skills. She’s a top-rated national instructor, known for her learner-centric and energetic approach, having lectured on behalf of her clients at over 25 major Canadian universities as well as delivered keynote talks at a variety of organizational summits, events, and conferences over the years.

Some things she’s up to include:

• Co-Founder of a Canadian-based ed-tech innovation firm, working on e-learning learner-centric innovations
• Leadership advisor for international NFPs such as NNedPro Global Centre for Health and Nutrition
• Cultivating her other career – as a creative professional and co-founder of LMG Creative: Internationally awarded team that scores Film & TV projects, and as a creative professional, she’s known for her work as an award-winning screen composer, and is currently in pre-production on 3 film projects being released later this year.
• Sponsoring and producing a social enterprise project “Impact w Cynthia O”,  Amplify her Voice campaign, 2022 launch
• Launching her nationally recognized “Redefining” program, helping professionals fill common gaps in their project, people, and self-management skills.
• Mentoring younger professionals and academic professionals across Canada, and is a host for the Lead Her Alliance Canada.
• She’s a member of the SCGC, AWFC, CAPS, and PMI (certified PMP).

Connect with her here:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhastreiter/