Networking & Building Relationships

Your relationship with your manager has a huge impact on both of your careers. Frankly, you depend upon each other for success. Your manager's support, guidance, and direction help you do your job better. And your good work makes your manager look good. Effectively managing this relationship can increase your productivity, help you meet your personal career goals, and last but not least, make your time at work more enjoyable and rewarding. In this course, you will learn the importance of managing relationships, and ways to build great manager relationships by recognizing their agenda and management style. You will also learn strategies for building a strong professional relationship with your manager, and various ways you can become aligned with your manager. You will find that to work more effectively with your manager, you need to develop a rapport and make workplace interactions mutually beneficial (win-win).

Mentoring relationships are key to organizational success. Mentors sharing insights and experiences with mentees strengthens organizations, improving the prospect of ongoing success. Good mentorship is particularly important in today's challenging environment, where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are prevalent. In this course, you'll learn to recognize what to expect from a mentoring relationship and identify key characteristics of a mentor. You'll also learn ways of facilitating a productive mentor-mentee relationship and best practices for successful mentoring relationships.

Eighty percent of your day is spent at work. Whether you commute to an office or work from home, to a huge degree your professional success depends on your likability. Think about all your professional interactions; you work on team projects, collaborate on conference calls, sit in meetings, talk to clients, etc. These and more are situations that require your ability to be liked. However, it's not a popularity contest. Being liked doesn't mean you give up your professional integrity. Although it's not possible to be liked by everyone, this course teaches you techniques to be likable and respected by your colleagues and boss. You will also learn how to ‘get over it' when someone in the workplace does not like you.

The LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model provides leaders at all levels a simple and comprehensive framework for the critical areas of building the relationships needed to lead others. The model is based on over 45 years of collective management and leadership consulting, and coaching experience with Fortune 500 companies, government organizations and start-ups firms. Have you ever considered how often we adjust our communication topics and frequency based on the relationships we have? Our partners or spouses may typically want frequent, highly specific check-ins, our teenagers want the minimum acceptable level of communication, our parents may like us to call weekly or monthly with some general updates about the family, and our friends could be okay with whatever communication happens. How would it benefit you if you adjusted your approach this much as you lead? At work, leaders have four critical relationships they must develop and communicate appropriately with: the boss, direct reports, peers, and customers. Each relationship is essential and deserves focused attention, yet each relationship values and needs different things to be productive. And each relationship is critical to getting results. In this Leadercamp, certified LEAD NOW! and current Skillsoft coach Liz Tracy provides practical tactics you can immediately use to see better results as a leader. You'll learn the 4 critical relationships you need to nurture and how they help you get people and business results.

In your job it is inevitable that you will encounter people with different personalities, backgrounds, and perspectives. In some cases, different personality types can clash. This can lead to counterproductive behaviors, erode morale, and cause stress. The ability to recognize and respond to these types of situations can be a game-changer both personally and professionally. Attendees will be able to observe these situations with a new lens and hear more about Skillsoft's learning curriculum-programs and courses-around these skillsets. Join Joe Shaffner, ICF, PCC, CEC, CMC, professional development and leadership consultant, for a time of deep learning and introspection.