Learn how to network with confidence to advance your career

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Confident Networking for
Career Success

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Stuart Lindenfield
• 19 years coaching thousands of executives to become confident networkers
• Co-author of best-selling ‘Confident Networking for Career Success’
• Specialist in helping people who have reached a crossroads in their career,
or when a career change is forced upon them
• Expertise in helping clients build their confidence and resilience, and
improve their networking skills
Masterclass series from
Not Actively Looking
Host: Anthony Harling, Not Actively Looking
• Over 30 years experience in top-level executive search
• Former Senior Partner with Heidrick & Struggles
• 15,000 – 20,000 senior executive interviews
• Founder / Director of Not Actively Looking
• Senior Career Advisor and Career Story Writer

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Gain confidence & leverage your professional network
for career success

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‘Developing and nurturing a web of
relationships that have the potential for
mutual benefit’
2.1 Defining ‘Networking’
From ‘Confident Networking for Career Success’, by Gael and Stuart Lindenfield (Little Brown Book Group, 2010)

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2.2 Becoming a ‘Cool Cat’ Networker

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2.3 - 8 Key tips for strengthening your Unashamed Humility
1. Make a list of ‘Impossible Goals for Me’
2. Remind yourself of the dangers of being perceived as arrogant
3. Be willing, and able, to openly share your limitations (But in a confident manner!)
4. Worry, but don’t over-worry, about what people think of you
5. Ask that ‘stupid’ question (Even on a group Zoom session.)
6. Seek support overtly and expertly
7. Stay an eternal student
8. Stay close to someone who will tell it to you straight
[From ‘Confident Networking for Career Success’, by Gael and Stuart Lindenfield]

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You are more likely to:
 Have less stress and increased physical and mental wellbeing
 Learn more effectively
 Generate new perspectives, stronger relationships, and happier customers
 Have more personal and professional growth
 Help other team members to feel important
 Make wiser decisions
 Create an atmosphere which fosters learning, creativity and taking calculated
risks
2.4 Why ‘Unashamed Humility’ is good for you – 1/2
[Thanks to Forbes Coaches Council and UC Berkeley Research]

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 Your strengths will be strengthened
 Others are more likely to connect with and relate to you
 Your admission that ‘you don’t have all the answers’ opens the door for
others to step forward and propose ideas and solutions. This in turn
inspires engagement and empowerment, deepens collaboration and
drives innovation
 It inspires a stronger degree of accountability
 It will encourage a greater degree of self-reflection
2.4 Why ‘Unashamed Humility’ is good for you - 2/2
[Thanks to Forbes Coaches Council and UC Berkeley Research]

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2.5 ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’

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2.6 Get Serious about networking!
Create your Networking Action Plan*
 Clarify the importance of networking for you.
 Acknowledge your specific difficulties and blocks
 Audit against the 6 ‘Cool Cat’ qualities
 Create an Action Plan for enhancing your skills & your network
*Email me a request for a free copy to stuart@stuartlindenfield.com

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2.7 Speak up! The NAL Networking Forum
Develop your peer network & uncover opportunities
 Get involved - Introduce yourself:
 Your role/most recent role, specialism & industry
 What you can offer / what you are seeking
 You’ve got 30 seconds max!
 Happy for the group to contact you directly? Please:
 Share your contact details in the Q&A
 Connect via LinkedIn or Xing

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3. Today’s offer
Confident Networking For Career Success
Original price £600
Exclusive OFFER: £500 when you
book this package by midnight on
5th August
Email
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Book a no-obligation call
You will work with Stuart Lindenfield, an experienced
executive coach, over 4 sessions. A typical
programme would include the elements below, but
may vary as Stuart always ensures that sessions are
tailored to the priority needs of the client:
 Clarifying your appeal - playing to your strengths
 Impactful and concise communication (CV,LI &
E/pitch)
 Creating a structured job seeking action plan
 Confident Networking* to unearth opportunities
 Preparation to ace the interview / assessment
* (A free copy of the best-selling ‘Confident Networking’ by Gael and Stuart Lindenfield
is included in the Package)
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