Our programs include:
By providing Knowing Counts’ Networking and Negotiation expertise, you will be empowering your employees with the skills to:
MIT Study: A recent MIT study found that employees with the most extensive digital networks were 7% more productive than their peers, but employees with cohesive face-to-face networks were 30% more productive!
When you develop networking competency in your employees, you:
Networking and negotiation for associations – attract and retain members by highlighting your reputation as THE place to build professional relationships.
Networking and Negotiation for Universities – put Networking and Negotiation to Work in the Service of University Goals.
MBA Programs – Teach your students Networking skills to help them get internships, land jobs, succeed in the workplace, and stay connected with each other as alums.
Alumni and Advancement Professionals – Our networking tools help you work with board members and committees, find volunteers, attract resources, uncork bureaucratic bottlenecks, promote the institution, collaborate with others, and connect with confidence. Alumni giving power depends on alumni earning power and that depends, in large part, on alumni networking skills.
Alumni Clubs – Grow your attendance and help your members learn state-of-the-art networking skills to insure their continued participation and giving.
Career Center Professionals – Make sure your students gain the one skill that helps 67% of professionals find a job – Networking! Book Keynotes and Workshops.
Book our Talks and Workshops for your Careers Services.
Develop networking and/or Negotiation competencies in your employees to:
Put networking and/or negotyiation skills training in your existing programs:
“Work will be increasingly relationship-based and therefore managing the weaving of relationships even more essential to outcomes.”
And you feel the need for an individualized program of skills development in Networking or Negotiation?
We can design an individualized program of Coaching, Mentoring or Counseling tailored to your individual needs.
Networking is the pivotal professional capability in today’s workplace, and Knowing Counts is the premier training company offering a wide variety of learning opportunities in Portugal and abroad. We’ve helped clients recognize the many strategic applications for networking and have worked with them to increase their employee and member expertise.
Networking is a professional and corporate competency.
Employees need development in strategic networking practices to excel at creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on the cross-functional relationships that get things done and affect the bottom line.
Networking is a way to build Affinity Group participation and expertise.
Members need networking skills to get the most from these gatherings and to show their character and competence as they build relationships throughout the corporation
Networking is an intelligence-gathering tool.
In professional settings, such as conferences, trade shows, and meetings, people need state-of-the-art networking strategies to find the latest information on resources, trends, and best practices.
Networking is a mentoring must.
Mentors and the people they coach need connecting and conversation skills to make their partnerships a success.
Networking is an antidote to the brain drain.
Before experienced employees retire or move on to other jobs, advanced networking skills help them pass on their valuable organizational and technical knowledge to newer, younger staff members.
Networking is a business development strategy.
Professionals and entrepreneurs need to know how to gain visibility and credibility in their target markets and how to build and maintain relationships for long-term growth
Networking is a membership-building tool for association staff.
Association professionals can be trained to create a “network-friendly” atmosphere at meetings and conferences, gather intelligence about trends and needs, build relationships with key influentials and board members, and continue to “sell” members on the value of association services and products.
Networking is a career and business competency for conference attendees and all members.
Conference attendees need focused networking skills to take advantage of great connections at the conference and to boost their businesses and careers back home.
Networking is a career skill.
People who want career advancement need practical networking strategies to become the natural and only choice in the career market.
Networking is a collegiate alumni relations and development tool.
University staff need strategies to build relationships that create alumni communities and attract donors and other resources.
Networking is the key to doing business in Portugal and in the Portuguese speaking Countries (Angola, Brasil, Moçambique, Cabo-Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe, Guiné-Bissau)
International businesspeople and students need to get comfortable with and competent in the cultural ground rules for building relationships with the Portuguese and the lusophone countries.
Networking Recovers Disconnected Employees
Unconnected employees hurt your outcomes because their contributions to management, productivity, creativity, business development, sales, retention, and recruitment are limited by their lack of access to the right resources, ideas, and people.
Do you recognize the unconnected in your organization? Wonder who they are?
