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Becoming Self-aware
Selling Yourself
Dynamic Public Speaking
Mastering the Interview

The Seminars

The Networking Nerds team offers several pre-designed seminars that focus on essential networking and communication skills.

Self awareness is one of the key attributes of Emotion Intelligence and is an integral component in achieving personal and professional success. Self awareness is having a clear idea of who you are and what makes you tick. Your personality, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, strengths and weaknesses are unique to you. The more you understand self, the more capable you are of understanding others and how they perceive you. In turn, knowing self increases confidence and enables you to check your attitude and manage responses to events, challenges and others in the moment. Self awareness is not learned from reading a book. It requires “paying attention” to your own behavior and emotions, and when you become more self aware you instinctively begin to see aspects of self you never saw before. This seminar offers many useful techniques that can easily be incorporated into your daily routine and will focus your attention on the key areas of emotions, reactions, personality and behavior.

 

Seminar topics include:

  • Establish personal wants

  • Establish goals and create action plans

  • Improve motivation strategies

  • Self-monitor behavior

  • Stop emotional reactions

  • Change core beliefs

  • Quiet criticizing voice in your head

  • Improve communication practices

  • Establish controls

 

Selling yourself is not just about finding a job. The art of “selling” yourself means you understand how to market yourself to the right people at the right time and in the right way. The concept of a salesman is often met with unfriendly reception because the title suggests pushy, annoying and unwanted tactics of persuasion. Although selling yourself requires an examination of traditional sales methodology, it does not demand that one become a sales person. In reality, we are all salespeople—casting long steady lines of ideas in personal and professional circles hoping someone takes notice and nips at the bait. But here lies the first mistake. People too often attempt to sell the idea before they sell themselves. You are your greatest asset in life, so it serves you well to begin there and to effectively sell yourself you must learn to emphasize, withhold, prepare, problem-solve, and observe. In this seminar, we take a serious look at what makes you tick and we provide you a tool kit of strategies and techniques that will enable you to attune yourself to the “buyer” whether it be a job interview, raise acquisition, product pitch, or marriage proposal.

 

Seminar topics include:

  • Identify strengths and weaknesses

  • Use powerful words

  • Improve nonverbal communication

  • Check attitude

  • Learn the Art of Bragging

  • Back up claims about your skills and characteristics

  • Practice sound bites

  • Be the solution

 

Do you suffer from pre-presentation butterflies? Do you fear your content may be unorganized and uninteresting? Ever worry you may get tongue-tied or simply forget everything you were meant to say? If so, you are certainly not alone. Public speaking is an acquired skill and requires the same level of examination, execution and practice as any other technical tool or trade in business. And by business, we mean all forms of business—from sales, development and marketing to education and leadership. If you wish to be a true success in your business, then you must first succeed at the business of YOU. This seminar speaks directly to the most common public speaking fears and provides a variety of techniques that have proven to boost confidence and credibility.

 

 

Seminar topics include:

  • Connect with your audience

  • Map your presentation

  • Get your point across early

  • Evolve undesirable speaking practices into winninghabits

  • Determine a presentation style

  • Create a conversational tone

  • Prepare for the unexpected

  • Create visual aids that supplement, not distract

  • Turn nervous energy into productive energy

  • Craft memorable presentation closers

 

The biggest mistake most people make in an interview is forgetting that the interview goes both ways. It is essential for the candidate to be a good fit for the company, but it is equally important for the company to be a good fit for the candidate. To ensure a successful interview, proper preparation and study is needed. This includes an examination of the company you wish to join and a serious examination of self. Whether you are about to land your first job, you are making a transition in your career, or you are simply looking to refine your professional skills, this seminar is designed for you. The lessons and techniques explored in this seminar will improve your overall interpersonal skills, which include but are not limited to verbal and nonverbal communication, negotiation, listening, problem-solving and assertiveness.

 

 

Seminar topics include:

  • Do your homework

  • The first impression

  • Personal connection techniques

  • Story techniques

  • Discover needs and create a common ground

  • The art & craft of interview questions

  • Questions to ask the interviewer

  • What nerves? (Stay calm and cope with anxiety)

  • Make an impact without words

  • Common pitfalls and recovery techniques

  • Follow-up etiquette

 

 

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