Select indicators that show whether professional networking is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Building an Effective Professional Network
A senior-level treatment of professional networking, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most disputes about professional networking begin as a conversation that was handled badly. The organisation's reputation as an employer is built or lost through this aspect of people management and development. The difficulty is not agreeing that this area of people management and development matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The programme works equally well for those formalising professional networking for the first time and those improving an existing approach. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of this aspect of people management and development and supervised application. The most reliable predictor of sound the practice within people management and development is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. Participants gain a realistic view of what professional networking costs and what it returns. The programme takes participants through this aspect of people management and development end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. The final module sets out how progress on this part of people management and development will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Structure records of professional networking so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Assess the cost of professional networking and the cost of leaving it as it is.
Design the communication that makes professional networking understood rather than merely announced.
Structure records relating to professional networking so they satisfy legal and privacy obligations.
Align professional networking with the organisation's workforce plan rather than treating it in isolation.
Reduce avoidable variation in how professional networking is carried out across teams.
Who Should Attend
Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in professional networking.
Internal communications staff explaining professional networking to the workforce.
Learning and development officers building capability in professional networking.
Employee relations specialists handling cases arising from professional networking.
Public sector personnel officers applying professional networking within regulation.
Team leaders and supervisors who put professional networking into practice day to day.
Course Modules
Professional networking: exceptions, appeals and difficult cases
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The exception to professional networking that sets the precedent
- Review professional networking for unintended equity effects across groups.
- Check that professional networking complies with current labour regulation in every location.
- Confirm that reporting on professional networking reaches the people who can act.
- Reduce the variation in how professional networking is carried out between teams.
Session 2What your existing data already says about professional networking
- Agree the indicators that will show whether professional networking is improving.
- Document the reasoning for every exception granted under professional networking.
- Test the policy on professional networking against three real cases from the past year.
- Define who decides on professional networking and who may only recommend.
Professional networking: policy design and legal footing
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping professional networking alive after the initial push
- Set the annual review point for professional networking and who attends.
- Set the review interval for professional networking and who attends.
- Define acceptance criteria for professional networking in advance.
- Script the difficult conversation professional networking requires and rehearse it.
Session 2Appeals and grievances arising from professional networking
- Set escalation thresholds for professional networking that work out of hours.
- Pilot changes to professional networking in one area before wider rollout.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on professional networking.
- Identify the data the organisation already holds that bears on professional networking.
Professional networking: capability across the management line
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Costing professional networking honestly, including the cost of inaction
- Ask employees what professional networking feels like from their side.
- Design the communication for professional networking around the questions people will actually ask.
- Arrange the handover of professional networking so capability survives staff changes.
- Define the trigger that would require professional networking to be redesigned.
Session 2Testing professional networking before relying on it
- Rank the weaknesses in professional networking by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around professional networking are understood.
- Estimate the resource professional networking requires to run as designed.
- Verify six months later that changes to professional networking have held.
Professional networking: cost, benefit and workforce planning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Applying professional networking consistently to the person you like least
- Estimate the cost of professional networking and the cost of leaving it unchanged.
- Check that professional networking still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Compare intended and actual outcomes of professional networking honestly.
- Confirm records relating to professional networking meet retention and privacy rules.
Session 2Closing out professional networking and capturing what was learned
- Set out how exceptions to professional networking are requested and approved.
- State the purpose of professional networking in one sentence a new manager would understand.
- Identify single points of dependency in professional networking and reduce them.
- Set the consistency check that catches uneven application of professional networking.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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