Networking
Networking is a skill you learn, not a gift you're born with
Ask a room of professionals how they feel about networking and nearly all of them will say the same thing: awkward. If that's you, you're not broken. You've just never been taught. Nobody is born working a room.
Ryan "the Lion" Ashton was a painfully shy kid who ended up building his whole career, and a 16-year community of New Zealand's tech leaders, on one belief:networking has achieved everything for me, and it can be learned.
Our training strips the sleaze out of networking and replaces it with five simple principles, practised live: how to approach one person, two people, or a group; how to make conversation that means something; and how to ask for what you want.
The five principles
- 1.We are seen before we are heard (Body language)
- 2.We get back what we project out (Energy)
- 3.Peel the layers of the onion one by one (Information)
- 4.Give before asking (Reciprocity)
- 5.Follow up (Follow up)
A full online training course is on its way. It will be part of the AFQY community platform. Sign upto be there when it lands.
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With confidence, you can do anything. Don't be backwards about coming forward.
Ninety-eight percent of people find networking awkward. Good news: it's learnable.
AFQY has spent 16 years watching what actually works when strangers become colleagues, mentors and mates. Our training turns that into a practical course: the five principles above, practised live: approaching one person, two people, a group; making conversation that means something; asking for what you want; and following up so it sticks.
It works for graduate cohorts, future-leader programmes and teams who need to represent their organisation in rooms full of strangers.
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Tell us a little about you and where you'd like to get to. It goes straight to Ryan, and the reply comes from a person, not a funnel.