How to Turn Your Conversations into Tools that Build Businesses & Careers

Description

Do you spend a lot of time networking with little to show for it? Maybe you’re talking but not connecting. People tend to do business with those they know, like, and trust i.e. feel connected.
 
Discover subtle ways to turn your conversations into valuable connections that will help you reach your professional goals. We’ll address your roadblocks as well as common conundrums and discuss practical solutions. You will learn techniques and skills associated with productive listening, words/phrases that create a connection, comfortable small talk, and savvy smartphone practices. You will leave the workshop equipped with practical skills and techniques you can put to use immediately.
 
 As a social conversation & professional-etiquette consultant, Janet Parnes works with professionals and aspiring professionals to turn conversations into valuable connections to build their businesses and careers. She had presented to organizations that include Bentley University’s Center for International Students and Scholars. Chambers of Commerce (incl. Newton-Needham) and organizations in STEM, law, architecture, and real estate.
 
Janet is also a professionals storyteller— expect a workshop that is rich with tales of  mishaps,  misspeaks, and triumphs!