Networking for Women: Building Connections to Invest in Your Career in the Long-Term

By Nita Singh Kaushal

In Networking for Women, an audio course from Scribd Coach, Miss CEO founder and career coach Nita Singh Kaushal shares networking advice for professional women to add to their leadership toolkits. In the course, Kaushal explores common networking scenarios, analyzing the current state of your network, and shares strategies for expanding your network and connecting with people who can help you achieve your goals and pursue professional advancement. Kaushal covers how to overcome the challenges of networking, and how sponsorship can help; how to find a sponsor; how to arrange meetings with people who can help you in your networking journey; and how to follow up in an effective way. She also shares exercises along the way so you can put what you’ve learned into practice immediately.

Whether you’re just building your network or are a seasoned professional woman, you’ll find valuable insights in Nita Singh Kaushal’s course.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Oct 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094444642

Nita Singh Kaushal

Nita Singh Kaushal is the Founder of Miss CEO, a company that empowers students and women with world-class leadership training, mentorship, and career exploration opportunities. Since its founding in 2011, Miss CEO has trained over a 100,000 children, young women, and professionals all over the world. Nita is currently a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and an Instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies where she teaches undergraduate and graduate students as well as professional women how to develop leadership skills so they can make meaningful contributions in their careers. Nita also proudly serves on the Girls at the Tech Leadership Council. To learn more about Nita and her work, visit NitaKaushal.com.

Book preview

Networking for Women

NETWORKING FOR WOMEN

Building Connections to Invest in Your Career in the Long-Term

NITA SINGH KAUSHAL

SCRIBD COACH

Contents

About Scribd Coach

Introduction

Overcoming Challenges & Sponsorship

Finding a Sponsor

Arranging a Meeting

Following Up

Conclusion

About the Author

Copyright © 2022 by Nita Singh Kaushal

All rights reserved

ISBN: 9781094444642

First e-book edition: October 2022

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Introduction

Hello, I’m Nita Singh Kaushal, and this is Networking for Women: Building Connections to Invest in Your Career in the Long-Term, a course from Scribd. Thank you for joining me.

When we think about networking, oftentimes, we think of those professional networking events we attend from time to time. Although we may go into these situations with the best intentions.