Workshop

Networking Habits for Job Seekers and Professionals Growing Their Careers

Maggie

Redesigning Future of Work and Careers

A network is a powerful job search and career tool. You need to make it strong.

Most people find out their network matters at the worst moment. It happens after a layoff, during a stalled search, or when a bigger role opens up and no one knows their name. By then, years of staying heads down have left their network quiet, narrow, or out of date, and reaching out feels awkward and risky.

Networking is not a talent. It is a set of habits: how often you stay in touch, how many different kinds of people you know, and how well you give back. Most people have never measured those habits, so they guess, avoid the work, or repeat advice that does not fit them.

In this 3-hour live workshop, you take the Networking Behavior Check-Up and see exactly where your habits are strong and where they stall. You practice a first step on the habits that matter most, write a message and a specific give, map who is missing from your network across five personas, and build a 30-day plan.

You work through each step live, in one room, with time for your questions. You do not need a big network or a lot of free time. You need an honest picture of where you stand and a clear first move.

What you’ll learn

Score your networking habits, learn to strengthen them, and build a 30-day plan so your network works for your career.

  • Take the Networking Behavior Check-Up in the session and score it using the built-in guidance.

  • See your results on contact frequency, network span, and reciprocity, and spot the habit to work on first.

  • Practice one rep on your chosen habit, then draft an outreach and plan the next one.

  • Discover twelve ways to give back and pick the ones that fit you.

  • Compare vague and specific examples of a give so you can see what makes one resonate

  • Write one specific give you can send to someone in your network.

  • Learn the five parts of a great message and see before and after examples.

  • Check the message you write against the five parts and see what to improve.

  • Discover what each persona does for your career and map the people you know across them.

  • Name one priority persona to fill first.

  • Choose your first steps from your Check-Up results, your reps, and your priority persona.

Workshop agenda

  • Know what you will walk away with and how we will work

    Hear the plan for the three hours, see which common networking advice holds people back, and agree on ground rules so you can practice without pressure.

  • Score your own networking habits

    Answer 20 questions, score them with the built-in guidance, and see your profile across the five vitals of a healthy network.

  • See which three habits to work on today

    Learn how the five vitals fit together and why contact frequency, network span, and reciprocity are the three you practice in this session.

  • Draft a first outreach and stop reaching out only when you need something

    See what your Contact Frequency score says, practice a first rep live, and leave this block with an outreach drafted and a next step planned.

  • Find one way to widen a narrow network

    See how narrow or wide your network is, practice a first rep, and choose one concrete step to reach beyond one company or one stage of your career.

  • Write one specific give you can send

    Choose from a menu of twelve ways to give back, compare vague and specific examples side by side, and write your own give in the session.

  • Check your message against the five parts of a great message

    See before and after examples of a message, then check the message you just wrote against the five parts.

  • Map your network and name the one persona to fill first

    Meet the Expert, Role Model, Connector, Leader, and Peer, map the people you know across them, and name one priority persona to fill.

  • Leave with a 30-day plan and your questions answered

    Fill in your 30-day plan card, see the gaps in your own profile, and use live Q&A to get answers for your situation.

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Who this workshop is for

  • Laid off or between roles, you need a network now, and networking feels cringy or you do not know where to start.

  • Employed and heads down, you want a bigger role, and you need a network that is ready before you need it.

  • Changing fields or industries, you know few people in the new one and want to know who to meet first.

What's included

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Networking Behavior Check-Up with scoring guidance

You see your profile across the five vitals of a healthy network

The five network personas and what each one does for your career

Meet the Expert, Role Model, Connector, Leader, and Peer, and see what each one does for your career. Map the people you know across them to find who is missing

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