Advance your career by building strategic relationships now through networking

Getting ahead in your career as a professional woman requires more than just hard work; you will need many people on your side advocating for you. You must build a robust network of mutually-beneficial relationships that you have created and maintained over time, so that they are in place when you need them. That’s networking.

Motivational speaker and author Kathy McAfee will discuss how professional women can more easily connect and build relationships with key people in their organizations and beyond. She will empower your women leaders to increase their visibility and value to the people in their networks, thereby creating more opportunities for themselves and others.

Don’t wait for people to notice you; instead learn to reach out and make the critical connections that can help accelerate your career success and value to the organization.

In this program you will learn how to:

• Develop strategic relationships in your organization and professional community
• Strengthen your business relationship-building skills to your career advantage
• Use Linkedin as a networking tool to acquire and nurture relationships
• Set and achieve goals for networking events that you attend
• Comfortably start conversations with executives and people you don’t know well
• Make time for networking even if you are busy, flat out working on the job
• Ask for facilitated introductions to key people so that you don’t have to cold call
• Broaden your professional network across the organization to create future possibilities

Format: Available in 30-60 minute keynote presentation and 90-120 minute breakout session. Teleconferencing and webinar formats also available (client to provide technical platform and administration).

Interactive discussion-style format allows your guests to engage directly with the speaker and each other to solve common networking problems and challenges.

Size: Ideal size for this program:  live group: 30-50 people; virtual program: 50+

Materials: Each participant will receive a copiy of Kathy’s book Networking Ahead for Business (available in soft cover, ebook (Kindle or NOOK) or audio book sampler (digital download).

About the Speaker: Kathy McAfee is a professional speaker and executive presentation coach and is known as “America’s Marketing Motivator.” Her woman-owned business, Kmc Brand Innovation, LLC is on a mission to inspire business and community leaders to use more of their energy, influence and resources to create positive changes in the world. A certified master practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), and certified Blind Spots executive coach, Kathy has 22 years of corporate marketing experience plus 6 years as a successful solo-preneur. Kathy is a full member of the National Speaker Association and author of the book Networking Ahead for Business (Kiwi Publishing 2010). With an expertise in networking and high engagement presentations, she teaches her clients to project more of their talent, power and influence when they present themselves and their ideas to others. Learn more at her web sites: MarketingMotivator.net, MotivatedSpeaker.com and NetworkingAhead.com

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