🤩 It was an absolute honour to be the host of 'Empowering Connections: Networking Session' at #FHSWorld2024 as part of their #FHSwomenpower initiative spear headed by Lyza and supported by the rest of The Bench Team Song Tran, Tanja, Jonathan and Matt.
We spent an hour together morning of day 1 of the conference to buildmeaningful connections.
After a brief intro where I covered the following topics on networking:
⛰️ Reframe the narrative
⛰️ Maintaining connections
⛰️ Find your buddy
⛰️ Use why and how questions
⛰️ Find what works for you
⛰️ What is your purpose
⛰️Use technology
We went into conversation circles, where attended divided into groupsof 4/6 to discuss the following topics:
🤔 Why is networking important for your career?
🤔 How has networking helped your career development?
🤔 How do you foster connections made at a conference?
🙏The energy in the room was palpable. Thank you to all who attended.
Feedback I got throughout the rest of three days of the conference.
⛰️ It was so nice to see a familiar face acknowledge in the crowd wheneveryone else avoids eye contact.
⛰️ The energy to be in a room full of women was empowering.
⛰️ Learning to reframe my approach to networking transformed myexperience at the conference.
