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Perfect Your Pitch: Networking Strategies to Propel your Business and Career to the Next Level
Networking is a vital strategy for successfully managing your business and your career. Yet few business professionals are focused on building and sustaining their personal and professional networks before they need them. Many business professionals lack the communication ability to articulate who they are and what their companies do in a concise and compelling fashion. This in turn, reduces their confidence and credibility. It also reduces business opportunities.
It’s time to Perfect Your Pitch. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to improve, to practice and to ready yourself for the most important 30 seconds of your business day. It all starts with how effectively you introduce yourself, build rapport and engage your audience in networking situations, both internally and externally. You only get one chance to make a first impression. Make it count – perfect your pitch. What you’ll learn: PERFECT YOUR PITCH is a focused training program designed to get you more confident and productive during networking situations. You’ll learn: - how to quickly engage business people in conversation about you and your ideas
- how to communicate effectively with a diverse audience
- how to get your key message across under a variety of time constraints
- how to quickly build rapport in networking situations
- how to create a powerful memory-hook for yourself
- how to improve your 30-second elevator pitch using the MR.ABE criteria
- how to ask for what you need and who you're looking to meet
- how to deliver with the kind of energy and confidence that attracts people and opportunities to you
- how to turn your database into a powerful networking tool to increase your sphere of influence
Workshop Formats. Available in ½ day and full day workshop formats. Workshop is ideal for mixed groups of up to 50 people.
Who’s teaching the course? Kathy McAfee, The Marketing Motivator and President of Kmc Brand Innovation, LLC is an expert at networking and engaging audiences. She works with motivated business leaders to help them become the recognized leaders in their field through more effective presenting, speaking, networking and personal branding. She will teach you how you can take your business and career to the next level by elevating your confidence and skills in the art and science of networking.
Workshop Preparation: to get the most out of the workshop, please bring the following items with you to the Perfect Your Pitch Workshop: 1. Typed version of your current elevator pitch / networking introduction 2. Bring your business cards and lots of them! 3. List of your current networking contacts (for exercise purposes only – not for sharing or distribution)
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