Join us for our first chapter meeting of 2018!

The most critical skill in business today is building rapport with others.

Do not miss this opportunity to improve your networking skills from Global Speaker, CNN Editorial Producer, Nadia Bilchik. This networking session will allow you to celebrate the past and accelerate into the future by providing you strategies to nurture existing relationships and build new relationships.

This session will help you kick your relationships up a notch and enhance career relationships!

Topics will address tips and techniques to:

• Connect networking and learn how to make it work on both an individual and company level
• Overcome anxiety about developing new relationships
• Start and maintain memorable conversations
• Quickly assess people and relating to them in the most appealing way
• Make the long-term investment in others so they want to invest in your success
• Effectively maintain relationships
• Enhance your virtual networking capability

Bilchick will engage the audience while helping you build professional and personal relationships by creating opportunities to maximize existing relationships and capitalize on unexplored options.

Agenda:

5:00 p.m. - Doors open (networking, food, etc.)

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - New Member Orientation

6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Program

8:00 p.m. - Chapter Meeting ends

About Our Speaker: Nadia Bilchik

Nadia Bilchik, President of Greater Impact Communication, is an internationally renowned television personality, communication training expert, author, and keynote speaker.

As a Television Anchor and Reporter and currently Editorial Producer at CNN for the weekend morning show, she has anchored and hosted feature programs for CNN, CNN International, CNN Airport Network and MNet Television, (South Africa). She is author of three communication skills focused books in the areas of Presence, Personal Branding, Influencing and Networking.

Her uniquely dynamic, entertaining and substantive approach to communication skills training comes from her extensive experience in coaching business professionals, delivering keynote addresses and conducting training workshops to a broad range of audiences both in the USA and globally as well as interviewing high-profile figures, celebrities and corporate leaders. They include President Nelson Mandela, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman and George Clooney.

Nadia's clients include: Home Depot Corporation; Turner Broadcasting; The Coca-Cola Company; Porsche, Hudson Bay Company, Samsung N.A., The Nuclear Institute, Georgia Tech and North Eastern University among many other leading companies and organizations.

Nadia received degree majors in Drama and English from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and a Licentiate in Speech and Drama from Trinity College, London.

Doors Open at 5pm. Free Parking.