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Professional relationships underpin so much in terms of business and career success. Our contacts can provide us with support, insight, advocacy and opportunities. Yet so few people or businesses really focus on how to build, nurture or leverage their relationships.
Whether you are responsible for business development, bringing on talent, arranging a sales conference or running a networking event, Andy will help you to make professional relationships count. Whether you want to generate referrals, leverage your contacts, break down silos, do your job more effectively or boost your career, relationships matter.
When you get most of your customers through word-of-mouth marketing, it makes sense to have a proper referral strategy in place.
If you want to give and receive support from people you know, you need to develop your strategic networking.
And, if you’re growing your network online, you need to know how to get the best out of social media.
With two decades of networking experience, Andy Lopata will show you the way.
CONTINUE READINGA recent change on LinkedIn seems designed to discourage genuine connection and leaves standard users with a choice of diluting their network with strangers who never engage or missing out on some great conversations.
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is quoted in today’s Times as advising young people that working from home was not going to help them in their careers. It’s easy to view the Chancellor’s statement through a Covid-19 tinted lens and either praise or damn his advice depending on your appetite for risk or desire to see a return to normality. However, I think it’s important to take a different perspective.
I recently wrote an article for First Voice, the magazine for members of the UK's Federation of Small Business, on how leaders can get support even when working remotely.
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