Corporate Networking Skills

What is the premise in Bodhih’s workshop of corporate networking activities?

Networking is everything – it helps chances of employment, increases contacts and can help improve business. To build pipeline and reach potential buyers that are not easy to gain access to, it is essential to always be expanding the network. No matter what the profession, networking is the fuel that accelerates success.

Networking skills are innate to every individual.

“To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust.”
~ George Ross

Corporate Networking Skills workshop includes types of business networking, benefits of networking in business, corporate network solutions, challenges of networking, corporate networking ideas, corporate networking activities, and building networks at work.

Networking is possibly one of the most important skills for entrepreneurs and corporate employees and also small business owners. Networking involves building and maintaining contacts and relationships with other people. The personal networks which you accumulate over time, both socially and professionally can be an invaluable resource. This applies whether you are an entrepreneur looking to start and grow your own new venture, whether you are looking for a job, or working on a project where external ideas and input can help.

Bodhih’s corporate and business networking skills workshops will help employees and Managers alike to build crucial networking skills and ability. This workshop will provide participants with the insight and skills to be more effective business networkers, face-to- face and online. The approach taken is to build on the strengths people already have and their successes. It is easier to develop what you already have than to try and develop skills that do not come easily. Being yourself is the most effective tool for business networking and building relationships.

What does Bodhih’s Corporate and Business Networking Skills training cover?

At its core, Corporate and Business Networking Skills workshop explores the impact of your behaviour while networking, the strengths and limitations, and getting the best out of each other by practice deep active listening skills. Finally, the session would highlight the science of Influence through body language, and managing organizational dynamics masterfully.

Kicking off with class exercises and presentations, Bodhih’s Corporate and Business Networking Skills program

instructs participants on the differentiation between behaviour and personality. The learners gain clarity on how a person’s behaviour is his or her user interface at work. The group discussions reveal how desirable and undesirable behaviour can impact work and results.

Next, learners through insightful analysis and case study, discover the importance of knowing individual strengths, and limitations, with respect to different roles. Through group discussions and individual reflections, participants understand the foundation of interpersonal relationships, and how to use communication to better interpersonal dynamics for better outcomes.

The module in the importance of business networking workshop, thereafter is about getting the best out of each other. Through exercises and facilitator led discussions, the participants grasp the importance of building rapport and the representational systems that helps them navigate with being stuck with one behaviour option to having choice and freedom.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session at the Corporate and Business Networking Skills training – Listening (who, where, what, why and how)

In the corporate and business networking skills course, this session uses class exercises, games, role play and facilitator led presentations to lay out the importance of listening, the right time, the different strokes for different people, an ideal environment, and getting the whole message out. The session is insightful as learners are exposed to the full spectrum of capturing and conveying information in appropriate messaging whilst simultaneously listening.

At Bodhih, Corporate and Business Networking Skills program is a popular session that is part of a larger Behaviour skills training suite.

The session draws richly from latest research done on Corporate Networking Skills techniques and processes and also maps its dependence on listening and interpersonal communication.

The heart of the Corporate and Business Networking Skills workshop lies in the insightful session that highlights influence – through body language and through purpose.

This section brings to the fore elements of observation, overcoming the barriers intrinsic to opinions and misinterpretation, mirroring, pacing and leading. The learners through group activity, individual role plays share their understanding of creating well-crafted outcomes, perceptual positions, and gaining clarity on outcomes by empathetic influencing techniques.

The role play sessions and individual reflection activity, assists participants to get the sense of transactional analysis, the dynamics of unhelpful workplace interaction patterns and the role each one of us have inside of it.

How would you gain from corporate and business networking skills workshop at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Corporate and Business Networking Skills training programs along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the Corporate and Business Networking Skills workshop takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s Corporate and Business Networking Skills course comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The work shop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long term benefits are to institutionalise Corporate and Business Networking Skills by embedding active listening techniques, applying the principles of influence and mastering the organizational dynamics that are at play.

What is the Bodhih’s promise on Corporate and Business Networking Skills training?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Corporate and Business Networking Skills talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, how employees demonstrate willingness to network, making scheduled efforts, and building thoughts into their networking strategy – especially practicing the various interpersonal communication styles in association with the recommended listening methods.

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