Career Development CD-Rom Training Software: Professional Networking

Training Course Description / Outline

Career Development Training: Professional Networking offers the student an overview of how to network for career advancement, seek career guidance, and develop a career network. The training program covers in detail the steps for networking effectively, steps for communicating effectively, steps for building beneficial relationships inside and outside an organization, the difference between a mentor and coach, and the steps for choosing a mentor or coach.

Learn To

• Use steps of the process for networking effectively.
• Differentiate between the necessary credentials for a mentor and a coach.
• Recognize steps of the process for choosing a mentor or coach.
• Follow steps of the process for ensuring effective communication.
• Follow guidelines for establishing beneficial relationships inside and outside your organization.

Training Audience

The target audience for this training program is professionals who want to develop their careers by improving their networking skills.

Total Training Time

2 to 4 hours

Training Objectives

Unit 1: Networking to Advance in Your Career (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Identify benefits of career networking.
• Identify steps of the process for networking effectively.
• Use steps of the process for networking effectively.
• Follow guidelines for ensuring a positive influence on decision makers.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, you are a Marketing Coordinator at Icon's Power Systems division. It has been your lifelong aspiration to live and work in England, and you are now actively trying to take your career in that direction. You are meeting with your immediate supervisor, Robin Carlson, who has served in many different capacities at Icon. You are hoping that with her experience, she can give you direction and hints about how to network effectively. If you handle this meeting appropriately, she will arrange for a meeting with Drew Canfield, the Vice-President of International Marketing, who is currently working in England.

Unit 2: Seeking Career Guidance (0.5 - 1 hour)

• Differentiate between the necessary credentials for a mentor and a coach.
• Determine necessary credentials for a mentor and a coach.
• Identify steps of the process for choosing a mentor or coach.
• Complete steps of the process for choosing a mentor or coach.
• Identify steps of the process for finding a sponsor.
• Determine when to seek a sponsor.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, you will meet with Alexis Bell, a Human Resources Assistant in the Power Systems division of Icon. You are hoping to determine the best way to advance your career in the future. Alexis will ask you a series of hypothetical questions designed to test your knowledge of career development. Through her questions and your answers, Alexis will track your progress and determine your strengths and weaknesses.

Unit 3: Developing Your Career Network (1 - 2 hours)

• Identify steps of the process for ensuring effective communication.
• Follow steps of the process for ensuring effective communication.
• Identify guidelines for building rapport.
• Follow guidelines for establishing beneficial relationships inside and outside your organization.
• Simulation Overview:
• In this simulation, you will meet with Drew Canfield and Annette Aberdeen, two employees at Icon's England division. You were recently granted your transfer request and are meeting to begin developing a new career network. You are hoping that this meeting will help you understand the communication methods in the division in England, as you realize that effective communication will be vital to your success. You need to communicate effectively during this meeting and begin building strong relationships that will help ease your transition.

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