Help your teams connect and collaborate through interactive training. Book a workshop strategy session to customize your event. Workshops are designed to reinforce a mindset and mission to avoid random acts of marketing through intention on activating real relationships.
How to Avoid Random Acts of Conferencing – A Playbook to Make a Conference Count
Whether you are extroverted, introverted, overwhelmed, or under-connected, an industry conference can be a professional and business development windfall for attorneys at all stages of practice. But obstacles like a global pandemic, procrastination, or work/life imbalance can derail our best intentions around marketing and personal branding. With compelling arguments and creative strategies, this workshop will inspire you to avoid random acts of conferencing — before, during, and after attending.
How to Avoid Random Acts of Networking – Tips for Working a Room
When attending professional meetings, seminars, receptions, or parties in your community, knowing how to “work the room” can make the difference between a boring waste of time and an exhilarating event that expands your circle. This workshop covers networking tips with both introverts and extroverts in mind.
How to Avoid Random Acts of Time Management – The Art & Science of Habit Change
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. With inspiration from James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, this workshop will cover the science behind habit formation and why our daily habits are the foundation for business development success.
How to Avoid Random Acts of Listening – Making Conversations Count
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How to Avoid Random Acts of Social Networking – Refresh and Reboot Your LinkedIn Presence
Whether your practice is emerging, evolving, or established, it is more important than ever to cultivate a dynamic virtual presence. The program starts with a fast-paced one-hour group training, including a live demonstration of LinkedIn. Learn how to maximize essential profile sections to tell your professional story, activate the newest features to humanize your presence, and leverage the full platform to connect to opportunities in ways that suit you. Finish your makeover during a private strategy session with Jen.
How to Practice Authentic Self-Promotion – Self-Care for Your Personal Brand
Effective self-promotion strategies are all about finding the balance between demonstrating your value and bragging about it. This presentation will cover methods and mindsets for promoting yourself both online and in person, with an emphasis on using LinkedIn effectively. Content is designed to engage female attorneys at all levels. Learning Objectives: Reframe self-advocacy into holistic terms; Embrace everyday interactions to practice your value pitch; Discover virtual, digital, and real-world ways to “show up” for yourself and others.
How to Create Opportunities for Client Face-time
While it can be difficult to build personal relationships with clients, it remains essential. That said, in-person opportunities to deepen those relationships can be hard to schedule. This workshop will highlight ten ways to rethink client face-time and take your relationship-building to the next level.
How to Reconnect with Dormant Relationships
Reconnecting — with old friends, acquaintances you haven’t seen in years, colleagues you have lost touch with, and clients from past engagements — is one of the most effective ways to make the most of your network. This workshop walks through the science and steps to reconnecting with dormant ties. Learn why your existing network is full of untapped value.
How to Show Up for Clients and Colleagues Who Are Struggling
Today’s increasingly isolated, socially disconnected, and hurting world demands that we do a better job of caring for one another. The main reason we fail to show care is that we don’t feel equipped to know what to say and do around those struggling, so awkwardness takes over. This talk walks through specific mindsets and behaviors that can be identified, normalized, and discussed to help cultivate the skill of social connection — leading to stronger, trusting relationships that feel seen, valued, and cared for in the workplace and beyond.
ABOUT YOUR TRAINER: Jennifer Forester is a business development coach helping lawyers avoid random acts of marketing. An independent consultant since 2017, her career path in the legal industry spans more than two decades in sales, marketing, and business development roles for media companies and inside large law firms. As a BD coach, Jen shows attorneys at all levels how to balance online and offline interactions to target meaningful books of business. She provides group workshops on best practices for business development, emphasizing LinkedIn to grow reputations and relationships. jforesterconsulting.com