Career • Professional relationships • ~90 min
Professional Networking
The most useful connections are usually not the closest ones.
What you'll get: Your close professional circle reads the same sources, does the same work and knows the same people — almost everything circulating there has already reached you. This 90-minute course builds a network differently: the weak-tie mechanism and a test of your current network's diversity, three context-specific openers, how to close so there is a next time, a four-messages-a-month rhythm, and the four parts of an ask people say yes to.
Who is this course for?
- Introverts who find networking awkward
- Anyone job hunting or changing direction
- People new to an industry building contacts
- Anyone whose network is entirely colleagues at one company
After this course, you will
- Assess the diversity of your current network
- Open and close conversations so contact continues
- Maintain a network in about 20 minutes a month
- Frame a request so people can easily help
Course content (4 modules)
Module 1
Why distant contacts are more useful
Why a wide, shallow network produces more opportunity than a narrow, deep one.
22 min
Module 2
Expanding without the awkwardness
Opening a conversation, asking to connect, and ending in a way that keeps the line open.
24 min
Module 3
Maintaining a network with small effort
A sustainable contact rhythm, and giving before you need to ask.
24 min
Module 4
Professional visibility, and the final test
How to let people find you, and the final test.
20 min
Certificate in Professional Networking
Complete all 4 modules and score at least 8/10 on the final test to unlock the certificate — issued by Nhan Ha (Tony), MBA, SHRM-CP via TTD. Download the PDF, print it, and share it on LinkedIn.
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