Courses to enhance your specialised knowledge for excellence in the knowledge economy. These courses focus on integrating our other courses to provide practical guidelines.
In the ever more integrated and connected way we go about our professional lives and conduct our business, developing and maintaining a balanced and high performing professional network is very important. It is a proven fact that good knowledge work requires good professional networks.
Building your professional network has become an integral part of career management. It can no longer just be a list of everybody you meet at conferences and other events. You need to pro-actively develop and maintain your professional network. Building and improving its performance and relevance is an ongoing effort and part of a successful career in the knowledge economy.
This online course will help you
- Evaluate your current professional network
- Identify the gaps and strengths of your current professional network
- Know what to look for to fill the gaps in your professional network
- Know how to engage the various kinds of people you need to add to your professional network
- Make use of online professional network tools to help you build your professional network
At the end of this course you will
- Understand who you are in professional networks (what value you add to the professional networks you participate in)
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your current professional network
- Have the tools to identify what kind of people you need to add to your professional network in order to increase its performance and relevance
- Know how to develop your professional network to advance your future career