The OPTIONS Program
The OPTIONS Program is an initiative to support all engineering graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in exploring diverse career options.
Learn more here: http://uoft.me/optionsprogram
Program Details
Date: Thursday June 10, 2021
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Location: Online
In today’s world, without knowing the “who”, you will never have the opportunity to market your “what.” Join us to learn how to get strategic about fully enlisting your personal (friends and family), professional (coworkers), and strategic (mentors) contacts to identify opportunities and develop the critical relationships required to successfully build your ‘book’ of business.
To help find and further establish these critical personal, professional, and strategic contacts, we will focus on:
- What is networking?
- Why is networking important?
- Who are your target contacts?
- How to build your contact list with tools and techniques
- Making first contact (cold calls and informational interviews)
- Closing on opportunities
- Managing the continuous growth and maintenance of your strategic network
Upon completion of the workshop, you will:
- Understand how critical networking is to your long-term professional success
- Acknowledge that establishing mutually beneficial relationships is key to identifying and seizing opportunities
- Tools and techniques to build your strategic contact list
Facilitator
Joanna Shea is the Managing Partner of the Negotiations Collective (NC). Joanna has over 18 years of negotiations experience in the natural resource, utilities, infrastructure, health care and education sectors. During that time, she has led over $2B worth of acquisitions, divestments, and contract negotiations. She has project managed and negotiated agreements linked to over $1B in capital projects in both Canada and the United States and held senior leadership roles in negotiations, project management, resource development and organizational restructuring.
The NC is a boutique negotiations consulting, training, and coaching firm. Its negotiators have vast and diversified experience in the area of negotiation, ranging from corporate/organizational, contract, multi-party, multi-culture, workplace, union, interpersonal to volatile community conflict.