Networking: Charismatic Connecting

Date:

5 October 2010

Price:

Free to Members, £52.88 (VAT inclusive) to Non-members

All welcome

“Be yourself, everyone else is taken”. Oscar Wilde 

Our social and professional networks are important.  For years it’s been said that “it’s not what you know, but who you know” that makes the difference……but that’s only half the story!  It’s how you relate to, how you connect with and how you are positively perceived by “who you know” that really matters. 

Making contacts and developing business and personal relationships with other people in your networks are essential professional skills and the lifeblood of successful businesses. 

This fast-paced, interactive and entertaining session will introduce the fundamentals of how you embrace the fear, appear self-confident, create rapport and make the all important emotional connection in social and professional situations. 

This event is aimed at those who are looking to refresh their networking skills, and ensuring they are making the most of their investment of time and resource in their networking activities.

Please see feedback below from Members who attended this event:

Feedback

Russell once again tells it as it is - making me realise what I need to do to be that little bit better

A great refresher on how to be a better networker and present better in public

Networking is something that I do very regularly but last night highlighted some bad habits that I've picked up

Russell was a superb presenter and the topic was very relevant to all

What an event. The best Entrepreneurial Exchange event that I have attended. Networking is something I have had great difficulty with in the past but Russell put across very succinctly and charismatically how to go about it . Value was obtained through gaining knowledge on the seven traits of networking and how to improve your own skills doing it. The event has also left me confident that I do some of the things required for good networking but that I can improve by working on the aspects that I am not so good at . I always believed people were born good at sales. From now on I believe you can work at it by using Russell's seven aspects and therefore improving on your weaknesses

The value for me was the speakers content and immediate practical implementation of some points

Simple easy to understand advice on the do's and dont's of networking

Good venue and audience interaction

Got a chance to speak to people that I might not have if we hadn't done the exercises

Excellent topic and very relevant to business trying to grow fast

Some very salient points about connecting with people applicable to the business environment. Plenty of food for thought for own personal behaviours

Received very practical advice that can be used immediately to help in our own businesses from day one. Very entertaining in the way it was presented, thoroughly good event

Both Brian and Russell were excellent.The topics of discussion were very relevant and also there was very good interaction between members. Very good event

The value of this event was helping me have a goal to improve my networking traits

The content of the talk was very different to the normal networking seminar. Very useful tips on how to work at networking professionally

This gave me a better understanding of personal failings & weaknesses in respect of self awareness & self confidence

I found the presentation very thought provoking and recognised many initiatives which I could apply

Excellent speaker, very practical and good follow up notes sent out quickly after the event

Good to meet and connect with other business owners. Great talk from Russell

Key tip - the seven traits of the effective connector

Key tips taken - follow up, follow up, follow up. Your reputation is all that you have. Think about your presentation. Think about what you talk about

Reminder of key networking skills and very good encouragement to put them into practise

Key tips for me were the seven key traits/aspects to networking

Key tip for me was to be aware of how you are perceived in reality. Work on improving all of the traits of a successful networker

My key tips - be marvellous at following up. Be appropriately memorable and the 48 Laws of Power

Key tip for me - practice!

The importance of networking skills is underestimated and a learnable skill

Key tips I took away? Where do I start...! Be engaging - no words on power point presentations - learn your pitch and do not use notes

Tips I gained - first impressions very important - be seen as a positive person - beware Powerpoint presentations badly used - believe in yourself but make sure you can adapt to make others feel comfortable

Really learned some useful tips of how to become good at networking and to make the most of such events. Also took down some notes and the names of some books to read. I found it excellent

I think that sometimes we focus too much on fine details and forget that the basic things such as how we present ourselves are overlooked

Lots of good practical advice...too many to list!

Brian always impresses me with his concise summaries. A practical facilitator

Brian always goes out of his way to make people feel welcome.

It would have been easy for Brian and not necessary for him to add anything but he did add some good incisive additional points

Brian was informative as he knew about the topic under discussion and made a good speaker and host. Brian also spent a lot of time hosting and networking after the event

Brian was very good - introduced and summed up well

Brian gave a very nice introduction and summary

Brian was excellent

Brian gave succinct summaries without just repeating what the speaker had said

Brian was great as a host and also was open afterwards to having some good chat. I thought Brian was brilliant

As always, Brian was on top form

Brian was very helpful and engaging

Russell was excellent, very motivational and enthusiastic

Russell was a very motivational speaker. Kept the audience's attention from start to finish. A very charismatic presenter and the topic of dicussion was very interesting and appropriate for me just now. As soon as a bit of growth returns to the company I will be looking to ask Kissing with Confidence to run a training day for all the managers and sales staff. I learnt an awful lot last night. Very good

Russell was highly engaging, entertaining with great content. I liked the fact he moved around a lot!

Russell was inspirational!! Clearly a person who loves what he is doing and is a top performer in this sector.

Russell was very good - very interesting. I liked the forced interaction and the low tech presentation. The seven points were excellent and relevent. I would have liked more examples to bring them to life. Things to watch were the swearing for effect, football references, and reliance on quotes. Overall it was very good

Russell was excellent - very inspirational

Russell was absolutely fantastic as usual, this is one of the best events I have been at for years!

Russell was extremely engaging and very interesting

Russell was just excellent and entertaining

Russell gave a fantastic well constructed presentation

Fantastic to hear Russell again

Russell was excellent. Thank you for a super event and I only wish it could have been longer to enable me to learn more on how to improve my networking skills.

Excellent event, great speaker and also lots of networking opportunities

More of the same would do very nicely! Once again many congratulations to all of the "Exchange Girls" for their energy, enthusiasm and professionalism!!! Very much valued and appreciated.