Networking Strategy Planner

Pathway Builder 🔒
Domain
Career
Type
Planner
Phase
Goal Setting Action
Details
30 min Between sessions Monthly
Topics
Career Transition

For professionals making intentional career moves.

When to Use This Tool
A client knows networking matters but avoids it or doesn't know where to focus
A client is in job search mode and wants a structured outreach approach
A client wants to build relationships in a new industry or role level
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When you mapped your target people and organizations, who came to mind that you'...

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Coaching Scenarios Plus
1 The client who has been meaning to reconnect with people for two years and keeps not doing it
Context

A 37-year-old associate director of clinical operations at a pharma company is two years into a passive career consideration. She has not updated her LinkedIn in three years. She has a handful of people she's been meaning to reach out to since her last role ended but hasn't. She's attended zero industry events. She describes herself as 'bad at networking' and treats this as a fixed trait. She came to coaching to work on career clarity, and the networking question emerged when she named building relationships as a prerequisite for the move she wants to make. The Networking Strategy planner is introduced as a structured system — not a personality fix, but a plan with dates in it.

How to Introduce

Frame this as a design problem, not a trait. 'You've described yourself as bad at networking. I want to reframe that: yo...

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