Strategy Success: Get The Awkward Out Of Networking
Discover How To Authentically Harness Your Most Powerful Tool in Your Strategy – Your Networking
Career Aviators helps professionals, managers, and executives find positions in which they will excel, value highly, and love to do. We are Canada’s only Career Management firm that operates as a social purpose business. The profits from our work support programs to help vulnerable youth flourish in the face of highly stressful life situations.
Please join us November 3rd from 12:30 – 1:30 PM
A member of CoWork, Wayne Greenway will be leading our first Virtual Lunch and Learn on The Big Blue Door, in CoWork’s Virtual Meeting Room in November. Whether you are a networking pro or a newbie, this workshop is for you.
Please RSVP for this event by sending an email to CoWork@cottonfactory.ca and you will be added to the guest list. Our receptionist will give you access to CoWork’s Virtual Meeting Room when you enter through The Big Blue Door.
About our host, Wayne A. Greenway
How long have you been doing the work you do?
I0 years — 6 years part-time while I looked after my parents who lived in Hamilton — so they could age in place — and 4 years full time — I have worked with 197 clients to date
What type of people should attend this event?
This event will be helpful to anyone who needs to sharpen their networking skills, whether it be to find out about job opportunities before they are posted or to help grow a new business. Some people find networking uncomfortable. This session will help them to see that it does not have to be ikky!
What inspired you to start helping people in this way?
It’s a long story. I spent many years developing programs to strengthen the resilience of seriously ill children and their families in the community, clinics, and in the hospital. In these programs, we built large teams of volunteers. Many of them were students or people in the early stages of their careers. They all volunteered twice a week and a large core stayed for 3- 4 years. We got to know them very well and they would often want help with their career and/or job search as they were finishing school or when they were trying to transition into a new job. Helping them to discern their new path and assisting them with resumes just became a natural part of what we did and I loved it! Then, there were my own career pivots — some were very challenging. I learned how hard it can be, even when you have had many successes in your past. When I retired from my last job I decided that I wanted to try opening my own practice. I did a full year of intensive independent research and met with dozens of career professionals to learn from their experience and then I opened my practice a year later.
Is there anything else you would like to share?
It does not matter whether they are executives, professionals, or work on the front lines. They can be new to the workforce or rich with experience.
Clients come to me after weeks or months of searching without success. I hear, in their voices, how disconnected and without purpose, they feel. I sense their loss when they get no replies to their applications or go to multiple interviews without an offer.
I feel their struggle as each step of the process calls upon skills they seldom use, in presenting themselves to others. It’s easy it is to get off track, procrastinate, lose their way, or get completely stuck.
I understand the financial stress. Money is tight or may be running out.
Job search is by far the toughest job they will ever do.
It’s a privilege to walk with clients through this journey as they go about changing this story. I see them set a powerful direction that uses their top strengths and aligns fully with what matters to them.
I see their mood change when using a method that works rather than trying to decipher all the conflicting advice from friends and the web. I feel their excitement as we daily prepare for interviews
I get energized as they get that sense of connection in coming together to execute their independent searches fully backed by their team and myself.
I celebrate with them when they land a position in which they excel, value highly, and love to do.
It has been rewarding to facilitate this success 93% of the time over the last 10 years
That is why I do this job.
If you could share something with your younger self that would help your older self, what would it be?
Aim for B+ in every initiative throughout life and have a richer life outside of work. The time I spent bringing things to the A+ level resulted in sacrificing other aspects of my life. In most aspects of life, performing at the B+ level is just right and it allows one to explore many other aspects of life.
What is the best way for people to connect with you?
I will meet with anyone for a free session to learn about their situation, offer immediate advice, and to provide an idea of how I work with clients. They can book a meeting with me using this link
