How to network with confidence for career success

Date: Monday 20 March 2006
Time: 2-5pm
Venue: Waterford Institute of Technology

Increasingly, networking is becoming more important in securing the career opportunity or in winning business. Recent research indicates that in order of 75% career opportunities are found through networking.

Yet many of us donít feel confident networking or perhaps even dread the idea of facing a room of people that we donít know.

Just because you are fabulous at what you do it doesnít mean that youíll be a natural at networking.

Whether you are working independently or as part of a larger organisation, one of the critical skills we need to develop to help us excel in our career and achieve our business strategy and goals is learning the art of ëAuthentic Networkingí.

In this interactive workshop, weíll:

enhance our networking skills in real time

learn how to reply to the toughest question that you get asked in any social occasion ëso what do you do?í

develop a plan to create an unpaid sales force that generates a constant stream of referrals

and create your own networking strategy to accelerate our career and professional success in 2006.

Workshop facilitator
Krishna De is a speaker, author and mentor, guiding owners of professional services companies in business development strategies to build distinctive corporate, employer and personal brands so that they realise more profit and greater success with less stress.

She is Ireland’s leading Personal Branding and Marketing Strategist, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Oneocean Ltd a leading business development consultancy and is the host of the ëWomen in Businessí radio show on Dublin Annalivia FM and Europeís first internet radio show, Biz Growth Live (www.bizgrowthlive.com) where she is in conversation with experts on how to build your brand, grow your business and leave your competition on the starting blocks!

For further information contact Emma Walsh on 353 (0)51302949