Business Networking for Success and Company Growth: Part One

Learn Communication & Leadership Skills For Inspiration, Success In Life, Work PLUS Management Skills For Career Success

Created by: Peter Alkema
Business | Technology | Self Development

What Will I Learn?

• The power of story-telling to tap into human emotions so your message has more impact & retention
• Boost your leadership with Mindfulness, Goal Setting, Time Management, Success Mindset & Emotional Intelligence
• The importance of clarity in all types of communications to ensure the highest impact for your audience
• Email management practices that will help you get on top of your inbox and stand out in other people's inboxes
• Practical things you can do in online meetings to stand out and demonstrate engagement and contribution
• Group communications such as Whatsapp groups and smaller audiences that use efficient, digital communications
• Larger scale messaging such as for events and getting big groups of people to take action
• Verbal communication in 1:1 settings, meetings and other contexts when it still matters what you say and how you say it
• The "hero's quest" story telling pattern and how you should make your audience the hero of your story
• The difference in communicating messages across social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc
• The preview principle for writing emails that people will read, receive your message and take action
• How to write emails that have attachments to avoid "lazy email etiquette" and ensure you deliver value to your recipient
• The importance of writing with clear action words as verbs and nouns (person, place, thing) as subjects
• Don't start processing email at the beginning of the day because this wasting good thinking time on administrative activity
• The 3 sentence rule for composing emails to ensure you get your message across with high impact and retention
• Calls to action in emails and practical steps to ensure that people know what they need to do as part of a plan
• Switch your camera on when you are introducing yourself or presenting in online meetings
• Use the chat feature in online meetings with context and proper intent to engage meaningfully
• The importance of good slide design and well prepared presentations in online meetings
• Only communicate something on a group messaging environment which is useful for everyone
• Use the group description to provide the rules of the group to everyone with principles for engagement
• Principles of digital citizenship like authenticity, respect, humility and the importance of communicating as a digital citizen
• Understand the different intentions and audience expectations of various social media platforms
• The importance of managing your audience's expectations when you communicate in different channels
• Communicating with large groups of people by diversifying your messaging and increasing frequency closer to action
• Verbal communication with your boss, co-workers, meetings and larger groups of people
• Listen to understand, not to form your reply and try and use the word "done" as often as possible to build credible messaging
• How you can lead without authority or being a manager of other people
• The importance of being centred in your own life to develop self-leadership
• Leadership skills to help you have more impact and influence
• Practising self-leadership by living and acting independently
• How to be a leader of self before you can leader other people
• Small group leadership that is built on relationships and trust
• How to lead large groups of people consisting of multiple teams
• How to act now to ensure a successful journey of leadership
• Improve your own success by lifting and serving others to achieve more
• The first practice of self-leadership is to control your thoughts
• Develop thoughts that are positive, uplifting and contribute to the world
• Avoid self-doubt, hesitant thinking and wavering thought processes
• Practice public praise and private criticism with deep understanding of others
• Being able to take meaningful initiative is critical for self-leadership
• Convert positive, purpose driven thinking into self-directed action
• Achieve more by worrying less about who gets the credit
• Be intrinsically motivated to become a better leader of self & others
• Develop a growth mindset to learn from challenges & see opportunities
• How Nelson Mandela was inspired by Invictus "I am the master of my fate"
• "Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power" Art Of War
• Leadership of small groups and teams of people in the workplace
• How to build relationships in small teams by being vulnerable & authentic
• Be obsessively helpful to other people in a group to increase leadership
• Lead by serving other people to achieve their goals as part of the team's purpose
• Communicate and act in a broader context and vision than the group
• Learn to see the value the team creates and lift people to work towards it
• In formal positions of leadership, make time to lead and invest in skills
• Delegate your own work to empower your team and prevent overload
• Make time for other people and ensure you are approachable
• Build people's confidence by recognising all contributions and role players
• Create an empowering environment in which the team can self-organise
• Help the team to become independent of you for decisions & direction
• Leading large groups of multiple teams requires you to lead leaders
• Empower your management team to be authentic and express their own style
• Display servant leadership and be self-critical in front of others
• Proactively ask for specific feedback from people to drive engagement
• Don't undermine people's trust by encouraging blame and fault finding
• Don't sweat the small stuff when you lead large groups of people
• Inspire people above their day to day workload and challenges
• Leadership styles, the benefit of each leadership style, and how to use different styles in different team scenarios and situations
• Autocratic, Authoritative, Pace-Setting, Democratic, Coaching, Affiliative, and Laissez-Faire Style of Leadership
• Empathy, the benefits of leading with empathy, and the strategy to lead effectively with empathy
• Compassion, Emotional Intelligence, Open & Transparent Communication, Active Listening, and Optimism are covered to help you lead with empathy
• Action, learn how to lead with action centric leadership and use action to produce results
• Learn how to be an action-minded leader, organise teams, and inspire everyone to take action
• Diversity, use the power of diversity to drive innovation, creativity, performance, and personal growth
• Learn to be an inclusive leader and to encourage diversity. Learn from our real life examples of working in diverse teams, cultures, and countries
• Ethics, the importance of ethical leadership and traits of an ethical leader, as well as consequences of failure of ethics
• Principles of ethical leadership such as Honesty, Justice, Respect, Community, Integrity, and Appropriate Conduct.
• Resilience, the characteristics of resilient leaders, and the strategies and prices of resilient leadership
• Resilient leadership strategies, such as Perspective, Emotional Intelligence, Exercise, Overcoming Fears, Driving Forces, Business Rules & Breathe
• Skills, Story-telling, and Self-Leadership, learn the power of communicating and connecting using stories. Connect with a vision using your emotions
• Learn what makes a great leader, including vulnerability, blanking intelligence and emotional quotient, giving autonomy, and lifting team to a higher purpose
• High performing business leaders, that have set examples in Leadership and we can learn from their best practices and accomplishments
• Learn from business leaders like Elon Musk, Jamie Dimon, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ray Kroc, Andrew Carnegie, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Warren Buffet
• Inspiring authors of leadership, books on leadership that contain years of experience and learnings to help us learn the best practices of leadership
• Learn from best leadership books such as dare to lead, no bullshit leadership, leaders eat last, strengths-based leadership, no rules rules, and many more
• People, we can learn from leaders who have led revolutions and inspired millions, their style of leadership will help us inspire and motivate our teams
• We cover leaders from real life locations such as Lord Admiral Nelson, Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and many more
• Brevity in communications and the importance of cutting back words and unnecessary content in your message

Requirements

• There are no course requirements, students just need a desire to improve their communication

Target audience

• Anyone wishing to improve their communications in the workplace, studies, home and life