Networking

Customized training and workshops and Group coaching programs

We customize our approach to your vision, values, mission and the specific outcomes needed to achieve the corporate results you need, often to drive Strategy Execution, Business Development, Innovation, Employee Engagement and effective Leadership.

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Networking is no longer just a job-finding skill. It’s a professional competency.

So, throw out your old definition of networking. This comprehensive Knowing Counts Program will help your employees or members reap the many benefits of networking to:

  • Get the job done,
  • Get the business,
  • Get behind new programs and initiatives – and
  • Get ahead

We have helped leading companies grow their team’s networking mastery so they can:

  • Upgrade their natural relationship skills
  • Create a valuable network with confidence and ease
  • Become a trusted advisor to their clients
  • Improve team cohesion and innovation
  • Get more opportunities through referrals and word-of-mouth
  • Dramatically increase business opportunities
  • Improve their close rates and sales revenue

Based on the 8 Competences, this program helps attendees build their social capital and increase their social acumen both inside and outside your organization. Participants will:

  • Assess their current networking skill level
  • Master the 3 key moments in every relationship
  • Advance through the 6 stages in any relationship
  • Start and make conversations flow and ask good questions
  • Remember names – and make theirs memorable
  • Answer “What do you do?” in a way that shows character & competence
  • Steer small talk to uncover resources and opportunities
  • Make the most of memberships, associations, and conferences
  • Develop a “big picture” network that gets them timely information
  • Teach people how to use their expertise, what to count on them
  • Know what to do and say in a variety of professional situations
  • Uncork bureaucratic bottlenecks, round up talent, gather business intelligence, increase productivity, find resources, build partnerships

Which Scheduling Option is best for you?

We are flexible; just let us know which format best suits your organization.

Two Day (14-Hr)?

One Day (7-Hr)?

Two Half-day sessions ?

Three 2.5-hour sessions?

Seven 1-hr sessions?

or webinars (1-hr)?

Here is our proposal how we could work together:

Group Assessment and Analysis

We begin our engagement with our complete assessment, which evaluates each of your team member’s networking perceptions, gaps, and needs against our eight proven competencies. We review the results together and develop a customized program to maximize your investment.

Custom Program Development

Next, we customize the perfect training program for your team’s needs – and your budget. Whether your team needs a workshop, group coaching, or individual coaching, our programs include the foundational material they need to master the competencies so that they can use these skills for a lifetime.

Your team will benefit from our exclusive scripts, templates, tools, ebooks, and/or videos that take the mystery out of expanding their network and enhancing their client relationships. They will turn theory into practice and accelerate their ability to attract, engage, and develop long-term relationships with new and existing clients through a skillful combination of practice, troubleshooting, and accountability. They will master these skills individually and as a team, which will, in turn, benefit your entire organization.

Customized Follow-Up

Once your team’s program is complete, their support is just getting started. Your customized program also includes the follow-up assessments, education, and just-in-time coaching your team needs to make sure they continue to hone the relationship skills that generate new clients, repeat business, and referrals for years to come.

Interested in Working with Us?

Let’s get started empowering your team to leverage the power of human connection with a CUSTOM solution.

Schedule a free consult with me, and let’s talk about how I can help your team become masters of developing long-term relationships so they can add immense value to your company and help you outperform the competition.

Keynotes, Professional Speaking

Portuguese, English or Spanish
We accept engagements in Networking and other business/management related subjects such as negotiation, handling objections, good conversations, storytelling or Sales.

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How We Work With You:

We’ve designed and delivered strategies from The 8 Networking Competencies© in many presentations for very different kinds clients.

Even though we have standard contents for our Worskshops, Keynotes, Professional Speaking engagements and Lectures, our experience show us that there is always a specific impact to create in a specific audience.

Therefore we always work with our byers in order to define with them which learning experience, outcome or motivation they wish to achieve in the end of the Speech, Worskshop or Lecture.

Knowing Counts can support you with

  • Talks, Keynotes
  • Classes at your university or institute
  • Moderating debates and events
  • Training and Workshops
  • Development of Leadership Programs
  • Development of Career Progression Programs
  • Conferences and conventions
  • Professional and other interest group events
  • Congresses
  • Conferences and conventions
  • Customer events
  • Leadership or Career Progression Program sessions
  • Events by Professional Groups and Associations
  • Retreats
  • Webinars
  • Outplacement: Networking as a tool for finding a new job

Interested in Working with Us?

Let’s get started empowering your team to leverage the power of human connection with a CUSTOM solution.

Schedule a free consult with me, and let’s talk about how I can help your team become masters of developing long-term relationships so they can add immense value to your company and help you outperform the competition.

One-on-One COACHING, Mentoring or Counseling

Get the personalized one-on-one coaching that empowers high achieving professionals to build authentic, productive relationships with individuals that can transform their businesses and careers

You’re smart. You’re accomplished. It’s time for you to create the open, diverse network you need to propel your business or career success.

But it’s hard to know how to expand your network in a consistent, strategic way. And when you do meet a good contact, it’s hard to create authentic rapport and find a natural way to work your business or career objectives into the conversation. After all, you don’t want to be salesy (yuck!)

So you try multiple marketing strategies like spending hours on LinkedIn, spending money on ads, or hiring consultants, but you’re frustrated because all of that time, money and energy spent still hasn’t helped you create that steady pipeline of influential contacts that can bring you referrals to clients, job opportunities, and more…

The thing is…it doesn’t have to be this way.

You can effortlessly attract and engage influential people, who cannot wait to work with you, just by upgrading your natural relationship skills.

Knowing Counts is the premier coaching and training organization dedicated to helping you use the power of human connection to transform your career, business, and life.

Our exclusive, proven strategies can help even the most introverted person create an extremely valuable network with confidence and ease.

Here’s How It Works:

Assessment and Analysis

We begin our engagement with an exclusive assessment, which evaluates your networking perceptions, gaps, and needs against our eight proven competencies to identify your strengths and challenges. Then we review the results together and develop a strategic roadmap so you can master the skills you need to build your network naturally and productively.

Your customized roadmap will help you:

  • Quickly overcome the mindset gaps that have been keeping you from expanding your network
  • Build a professional network with clarity and focus
  • Reduce the time you spend at inappropriate networking events and on ineffective marketing tactics

On-Demand Training

Next, the training begins. You know you need to build a network, but most experts usually spout generic tips or useless anecdotes. Nobody ever really tells you what to say or how to create an open and diverse network of professionals who can skyrocket your success – until now.

Our on-demand resources offers the foundational material you need to master each of the eight competencies, so you can use these skills for a lifetime. It includes scripts, templates, tools, and videos that take the mystery out of building your network, as well as knowing what to say and when to say it. You’ll never feel awkward or “salesy” in a professional conversation again.

Actionable Coaching

Next, we provide the personalized coaching you need to conquer your unique challenges and implement your roadmap to success. Through a skillful combination of practice, troubleshooting, and accountability, you’ll turn theory into practice and accelerate the mastery of the skills you need to succeed. You will:

  • Learn how to consistently meet the individuals who could propel your business or career.
  • Quickly master the art of naturally turning interest into an actual sales or recruiting conversation.
  • Reduce the cycle time to meeting influential people who can boost your business or career.
  • Increase your ability to establish credibility and rapport with them.
  • Dramatically increase your business or job opportunities.

Responsive Support

You just landed a big meeting tomorrow, but your coaching appointment isn’t until next week? You don’t have to figure it all out on your own – we’ve got you covered! Our responsive support will give you the advice you need, when you need it, enhancing your ability to deal with real-world challenges and opportunities.

Fuel your long-term success by growing a network of people who can’t wait to work with you and refer you to others.

With Knowing Counts exclusive program you will:

  • Improve the outcomes of the conversations you’re already having with your prospects and business contacts.
  • Be confident that you know what to say and do in every networking situation.
  • Create mutually beneficial connections with high-net-worth individuals that can fuel all aspects of your business.
  • Create a stable and scalable client pipeline by consistently engaging in productive conversations with people you meet.
  • Drastically reduce the resources you spend learning and implementing complicated digital marketing tactics (that you can’t stand anyway)
  • Master the relationship skills that will propel you forward in all aspects of your business

Interested in Working with Us?

Let’s get started empowering your team to leverage the power of human connection with a CUSTOM solution.

Schedule a free consult with me, and let’s talk about how I can help your team become masters of developing long-term relationships so they can add immense value to your company and help you outperform the competition.

Step 1:

Schedule a 30 minute, free, no obligation consultation with us to discuss your goals and see if Knowing Counts is right for you.

Step 2:

When we decide to move forward, we’ll create and implement custom customized roadmap to networking mastery, so you can attract and engage the influential individuals who can transform your business or career.

Step3:

Enjoy an open and diverse network that will allow you to leverage the power of human connection to change your professional life forever.

Train-the-trainer program

Train-The-Trainer Certification Workshops for Internal Trainers & Corporate Licensure Program

Build your internal capacity to offer training for networking competency by attending this certification workshops led by Valter Alcoforado Barreira of Knowing Counts.

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Knowing Counts is Portugal’s premier training and consulting firm, delivering workplace-networking skills training. This 2 day training program, backed by 20 years of research and work with clients, will increase your internal capacity to teach networking skills for many job types and levels. You will be able to use the materials in orientation, leadership development, career development, business development, sales, and diversity programs, for example. If your organization uses internal social networking software, the skills will also enrich and support participation.

Who should attend?

YOUR trainers!: Internal trainers, coaches, and managers who are involved with leadership development, business development, career development, employee development, orientation, diversity, sales and management, work/life, other programs.

What outcomes can you expect from the training?

  • A thorough understanding of The 8 Networking Competencies©
  • The ability to teach workplace and career networking skills using modules from the Knowing Counts System
  • Strategies for customizing the materials to your organization′s culture
  • Permission to tailor our modules to fit a variety of learning formats, time frames, delivery systems, and audiences
  • Strategies for integrating face-to-face networking skills in a way that supports widespread participation in your internal social networking system
  • Support and consultation regarding the marketing, launch, and on-going excellence of your Knowing Counts program

What materials will you receive?

  • Electronic version of all the training modules in the Participants Manual and the scripted Trainer Guide.
  • More than 20 Networking articles (print and electronic) to reinforce learning with your training participants
  • 1 copy of The Networking Activity Guide which includes 10 scripted and structured activities to help people in all sizes of groups make great connections
  • “100 Success Networking Tips” for you to use in newsletters, emails, etc.

What's the investment?

There are two fees associated with this program:

1. Train-the-Trainer fee, includes all materials.

2. Annual licensure fee, for a minimum of 3 years

What is covered in the licensure fee?

Your organization′s right to use the materials for 3 years. This includes your right to reproduce, disseminate through any medium, and make the material available inside your organization.

Note: Unlike other training programs that charge you each time you use their materials, your license with Knowing Counts gives you the right to use the materials with any number of people, anytime, for any internal activity or training situation. And unlike other programs, the license gives you the right to teach any or all of the modules independently, and to insert any or all of them into existing programs, such as Leadership Development or Orientation.

Bring this certification to your organization. Contact:

Valter Alcoforado Barreira
Founder, Facilitator & Speaker at Knowing Counts
vab@knowingcounts.net
+ 351 91 625 06 00 in Lisbon, Portugal

If you have any questions, please also use these contacts to clarify them.