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Smart Tips: Networking

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Overview

Fast-track your career with 47 micro lessons on building connections, following up, and creating opportunities

What you'll learn:
  • Reframe networking as authentic relationship-building, not a transactional chore
  • Identify your personal networking style and choose the best modes for you
  • Visualize your network using tiers and shared-interest spheres to uncover who you know—and who you need to know
  • Create a compelling elevator pitch and leadership brand for any setting
  • Use simple weekly habits and GenAI tools to build a sustainable practice
  • Track your progress with clear metrics to improve and grow your network

Are you tired of networking that feels awkward, transactional, or just plain ineffective? You’re not alone—and you’re not stuck.


Smart Tips: Networking is your fast, flexible guide to mastering the art of authentic connection. Led by executive coach and former Silicon Valley design leader Tutti Taygerly, this course offers 47 laser-focused micro lessons—each under 5 minutes—designed to help you network with purpose, personality, and ease.


Whether you’re looking for a new job, building your business, or expanding your influence, you’ll get actionable tools to help you show up with confidence and build real relationships.


What You’ll Learn:

• How to shift your mindset and stop feeling awkward about networking

• Science-backed reasons why connection matters for your success and well-being

• Tools to identify and grow your personal network—from Tier 1 allies to loose LinkedIn ties

• How to network effectively as an introvert or someone with limited time

• Crafting a memorable elevator pitch and making a great first impression

• Building a sustainable follow-up system that feels natural (not needy)

• Leveraging GenAI to draft messages, research people, and prep for events

• How to handle rejection, silence, and the hidden biases that get in your way


Why Smart Tips Works:

Each lesson is a standalone micro-coaching session you can watch anytime. No fluff, no filler—just practical insights and clear actions you can apply immediately. Jump around. Watch what you need, when you need it.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Networking Strategy and Practice
  • Presenting Yourself
  • Beyond Small Talk
  • In-Person Networking
  • Social Networks and Online Groups
  • Asking For and Offering Help
  • SOS: I’ve Just Been Laid Off, Now What?

Taught by

Tutti Taygerly

Reviews

4.4 rating at Udemy based on 52 ratings

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