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Rob Brown - Business Networking Skills, Networking Training, LinkedIn Training

Networking for Banking Professionals

Are You an Experienced Professional Banker with Challenging Targets for Sales, Switcher Business and New to Bank Income?

Are You a Newly-Qualified Banking or Early in a Career in Banking and Looking to Make Your Mark in the World of Banking ?

Do You Want To Hone Your Business Networking Skills, Generate More Opportunities and Become The Number One ‘Go To’ Choice For What You Do?

Want to Train Your Banking People to Become the Banker of Choice™ and Win Lots More Business?

Most banking professionals are technically competent but sometimes struggle with the soft skills that bring career success and the ability to exceed sales targets. Whether it’s business networking skills, corporate executive presence, gravitas, communication skills, personal branding, trust-building, sales skills, mental toughness or commercial acumen, only the fully-rounded modern professional banker has the soft skills to match the hard experience.

In today’s’ tough times of recession and low trust, banking customers will often buy people before they buy banks and brands. Building valuable contacts both internally and externally is crucial to banking success. Yet networking training for bankers is rarely offered. Networking skills training should be a key part of a banker’s professional development, but it isn’t. LinkedIn training for bankers and networking skills for banking professionals strangely don’t feature in banking qualifications.




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Much of the soft skills acquired by bankers are learned ‘on the job’. But often a colleague or line manager is the not the best coach or role model to learn these topics:
  • Referral Skills Training for Bankers
  • LinkedIn Skills for Banking Professionals
  • Corporate Executive Presence for Bankers
  • Mental Toughness Training for Bankers
  • Personal Branding for Banking Professionals
  • Sales Skills for Banking
  • Networking Skills for Bankers
  • Social Media Training for Banking Professionals.

Why? Because they are either erratic coaches and examples, they don’t have the time or teaching prowess, or they coach their habits and methods in their style, rather than providing a variety of strategies that an expert would. With the right soft skills and professional development training for bankers, you can...

  • Increase your banking career options, promotion prospects and salary package
  • Win switcher business and increase share of wallet with existing customers
  • Enhance your influence and reputation as the banker of choice in your situation
  • Develop powerful networks of introducers, brokers and intermediaries
  • Raise your profile internally with key players, decision makers, influencers and senior colleagues

Whether your banking role focuses on commercial, corporate, wealth, investment, retail, personal or other area, these skill-based half day and full day banking skills workshops are fully tailored to your requirements. They focus exclusively on networking skills training for bankers and similar soft skills training for banks. They are designed and delivered especially for banking professionals who have to win work, enhance performance, network more productively, increase profile, lead more effectively or create business opportunities.

Foundation Networking Skills for Bankers

For: banking students; banking graduates; newly-qualified bankers; banking professionals with less than 5 years' experience; bankers entering a new role, new location or new environment and needing to build a network from scratch; banking professionals who have never had any networking training before.
You want to establish yourself as a technically competent and rounded banking professional. You want to make your mark and push on with your banking career. You recognise the need for a high-level network of influential contacts, mentors, door openers and influencers. Yet business networking is a challenging skill to master. You may attend business events or internal functions, but you’re not always strategic. You often don’t know how to make an impact or take the conversations to the next level. So invest in this high impact banking networking skills workshop and discover...

  • Where you rank on the Business Networking Scorecard™ and exactly what aspects you need to work on
  • How to use the Networking Event Chooser™ to decide which events you should be attending
  • The Eight Networking Strategies to help you be 'the right person at the right time'
  • Your Networking Preparation Checklist so you are confident and productive in networking situations
  • Your own networking strengths and skills to make you more confident and effective when networking
  • How to identify and approach potential advocates, champions and mentors to accelerate your progress
  • How to craft your signature stories and elevator speeches that will differentiate you from everyone else
  • How to set networking goals around the connections, the influence and the reputation you want to have
  • The importance of an online presence on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional business directory
  • The two main ways to work a room confidently and effectively
  • Scripts and tips to handle the networking dialogue to create openings and business opportunities
  • Tips and tactics for the networking follow up with the networking contacts you make
  • What 30 minutes a day of networking will do for you, your career and your business.

This practical Beginners Networking Skills Training for Bankers Workshop will give you a thorough grounding in business networking skills for banking professionals. You’ll work with Rob Brown, founder of the Professional Banking Academy and one of the world’s leading authorities on business networking. He has trained thousands of banking professionals to network confidently and effectively, both online and offline. To fix up a Possibility Chat with Rob and talk through details, prices and availability, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone +44 (0) 115 846 2127.

Senior Level Networking Skills for Bankers and Experienced Banking Professionals

For: seasoned banking professionals with more than 5 years' experience; bankers with an established network who want to connect at a higher and deeper level; banking leaders, senior managers and directors who want greater reach, influence and engagement; experienced relationship, commercial and corporate bankers with challenging sales targets for product lines, share of wallet, switcher business and new-to-bank income.
You are already a well established banking professional with a sterling career behind you. You now want to take it to a higher level. But you’re not going to do it along. You need an influential, deep and diverse network of strong professional contacts, both internally and externally. Book in for this advanced banking networking skills training workshop for experienced bankers and discover things like...

  • Where you rank on the Business Networking Scorecard™ and exactly what aspects you need to work on
  • How to play special networking situations such as your own events, black tie dinners, trade shows, exhibitions, conferences, seminars and workshops
  • Why the right networking strategy will help you achieve your career/income goals much faster
  • The four networking personality types and how to maximise interaction with each
  • How to calibrate your current network, identify gaps and devise a 'hit list' of networking contacts to take your connections to a higher and more influential level
  • Building a team of qualified and motivated professional introducers for high quality referrals
  • The 12 tenets of corporate executive presence to increase your gravitas and political awareness
  • Advanced contact strategies when networking for new clients and ‘high net worth’ prospects
  • How to craft compelling elevator speeches in various social and business situations
  • Five killer questions when networking for switcher business to ascertain their current banking relationship
  • Advanced tips and tactics for following up, keeping in touch and staying 'front of mind' with your network
  • What 30 minutes a day of networking will do for you, your career and your business.

This practical Expert Networking Skills Training for Bankers Training will give you world class skill level in business networking skills for banking professionals. It can be tailored for bankers in sales/marketing/business development roles and for those working internally. You’ll be trained and coached work with Rob Brown, founder of the Professional Banking Academy and one of the world’s leading authorities on business networking. He has trained thousands of banking professionals to network confidently and effectively, both online and offline. To fix up a Possibility Chat with Rob and talk through details, prices and availability, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone +44 (0) 115 846 2127.

Social Media Training for Bankers & Online Networking Skills for Banking Professionals

For: banking professionals responsible for bringing in new business; bankers wanting to become the number one choice in their target market; bankers requiring more referrals from clients and other professional advisors; bankers looking for alternative avenues of lead generation and brand awareness; bankers who are social media savvy and want to strategise their online networking; banking professionals needing to raise profile and build reputation in their geographical or niche community; bankers with specific products and services for targeted prospects.
All major banks now have a presence on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, with many thousands of banking professionals, recruiters, firms, associations and banking bodies represented. Social networking skills for bankers is an absolute must for job security, lead generation, career progression and reputation management.
Sheer volumes of traffic and users mean social media has massive momentum. More importantly, your customers and prospects are using these channels. And you’ve got to be where they are if you want to get noticed. That means there are massive opportunities for bankers with the right networking raining and skill set. So invest in this social media training for Bankers or online networking skills for bankers workshop and discover...

  • How LinkedIn, Twitter and even Facebook can open up new worlds for your banking practice
  • How to use social media to stay ‘front of mind’ with your banking customers
  • The power of ‘niching’ choosing banking target and building online communities of fans
  • How you can separate social networking from the professional side of online networking
  • Where and how to set up compelling and ‘sticky’ online banking profiles
  • What it takes to create an authentic online banking proposition that differentiates you from your competitors
  • The need for engaging content to boost your online banking networking presence
  • Ways to generate banking leads using online networking
  • What and why to outsource/delegate when it comes to banking social media so you save your precious time
  • What 20 minutes a day of social media marketing and online networking will do for you, your banking career and your banking business.

This practical social media training for bankers helps banking professionals make sense of the whole world of online networking and connecting. Your coach is Rob Brown, founder of the Professional Banking Academy and one of the world’s leading authorities on business networking. He is the most recommended expert on LinkedIn in the UK (out of millions of users) and can show you how bankers can master the social and professional aspects of online business networking. Rob personally coaches banking professionals to build their profiles, personal brands and reputations using face to face and social media techniques. To fix up a Possibility Chat with Rob and talk through details, prices and availability, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone +44 (0) 115 846 2127.

Referral Marketing Skills Training for Bankers

For: all bankers with a business development angle to their role; bankers with sales targets, new client goals or goals to add more value to the firm; ambitious banking professionals who want to fast track their banking career; experienced relationship, commercial and corporate bankers with challenging sales targets for product lines, share of wallet, switcher business and new-to-bank income.

Your ability to generate work and win customers for your organisation is the single biggest skill you can learn to fast-track your banking career. That’s why referral skills for bankers is a KPI for many bankers. Most networking for bankers is hit and miss. You don’t always get to network with a prospect that fits your customer profile and is ready to switch to you there and then. So the best commercial, corporate and relationship-based bankers know how to leverage their professional and customer network for streams of high quality referrals. When you go through this special referral skills for bankers workshop, you’ll find out things like...

  • The five major reasons you don’t get banking referrals
  • Why being a ‘good enough’ banker is not good enough to generate referral banking business
  • The three real reasons clients switch bankers
  • Tips to create the banking referral gap between what prospects have right now and what you can provide
  • The difference between a banking fan and a banking advocate, and why you need both
  • Five killer switcher questions to identify the strength of their current banking relationship
  • A structured framework of stages and scripts to GUARANTEE lots of customer/client referrals
  • Strategies for generating banking referrals from accountants and other professional contacts
  • How bankers can motivate and educate contacts for the right banking referrals
  • The four words that will turn one banking introduction into three or more
  • The best and worst times bankers should ask for referrals.

If you’re a banker who wants to win more business, make more money and hit your targets, this referral marketing skills for bankers training is the program you need. Author of several books on referral marketing and networking, top trainer Rob Brown is founder of the Professional Banking Academy. Working almost exclusively with banking clients, he shelps them increase their influence and win more business. Referral business for bankers is a key performance indicator for many banking roles, and Rob’s unique and dynamic approach simply works! To fix up a Possibility Chat with Rob and talk through details, prices and availability, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone +44 (0) 115 846 2127.

Beginners LinkedIn Networking Skills for Bankers and Experienced Banking Professionals

For: banking students; banking graduates; newly-qualified bankers; banking professionals with less than 5 years' experience; bankers entering a new role, new location or new environment and needing to build a network from scratch; banking professionals who have never had any networking training before; experienced banking professionals with little online experience.
LinkedIn is changing the business networking landscape. Bankers can now build a significant, high level network without actually leaving their office! Trouble is, few networking bankers know how to factor LinkedIn into their plans. As a result, they fail to master the power of the world's largest professional business directory. So take advantage of very practical kick-start LinkedIn networking training for bankers workshop and discover...

  • Why Linkedin is such a potent business tool for banking professionals
  • Little-known tools, tricks and shortcuts to make LinkedIn work for your banking role
  • LinkedIn networking etiquette on connecting, asking for help, contributing and selling
  • The key elements of a powerful online banking networking profile
  • How to differentiate yourself from your (internal and external) competition using LinkedIn
  • How to set your LinkedIn banking networking goals for profit and profile
  • The power of Groups, Answers, Apps, Recommendations and Searches for LinkedIn networking banking success
  • How to devise your Ten Step Plan for LinkedIn networking Success
  • How to build your LinkedIn network in the most effective way
  • How LinkedIn can extend your reach and enhance your personal brand
  • Clever ways to make and save time using LinkedIn online networking
  • What 60 minutes a week of LinkedIn networking will do for your banking profile.

This hands-on Foundation LinkedIn Skills Training for Bankers shows bankers how to get to grips with the global networking phenomenon that is LinkedIn. Rob Brown has interviewed the world’s leading LinkedIn experts, and knows all the LinkedIn tricks that will make you world class. He is one of the world’s most recommended networking experts and has trained thousands of banking professionals to build powerful networks using LinkedIn. To fix up a Possibility Chat with Rob Brown and talk through details, prices and availability, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone +44 (0) 115 846 2127.

Advanced LinkedIn Networking Skills for Bankers and Experienced Banking Professionals

For: seasoned banking professionals with more than 5 years' experience; bankers with an established network who want to connect at a higher and deeper level; banking leaders, senior managers and directors who want greater reach, influence and engagement; experienced relationship, commercial and corporate bankers with challenging sales targets for product lines, share of wallet, switcher business and new-to-bank income; bankers with an existing presence on LinkedIn who want to take this to a higher level.
You're an experienced banking networker who now sees the benefits of networking at a higher level. You acknowledge that the network you have now is not enough to get you to where you want to be. You want more recognition, more kudos, more options, more money and perhaps even more security. LinkedIn could be your primary reputation and network building weapon if you use it properly. This expert LinkedIn networking training for bankers will teach you...

  • Advanced techniques for boosting your LinkedIn profile, using keywords and increasing 'traffic'
  • How to find connect with and engage practically anyone you want to meet
  • The power of LinkedIn features such as Groups, Apps, Recommendations, Folders, Searches, Questions, Polls and
  • How companies and organisations fit into your LinkedIn strategy
  • How to master your networking time by devising your personal LinkedIn networking daily and weekly schedule
  • Whether or not to invest in a 'premium' Linkedin account
  • Rob’s Ten LinkedIn Marketing Strategies for online networking success
  • Proper LinkedIn etiquette for handling connections and building credibility online
  • How to use LinkedIn for things like lead generation and recruitment.
This practical, expert level Bankers LinkedIn Skills Advanced Training will take your LinkedIn networking to a whole new level. Rob Brown has written many books on networking and interviews the world’s leading LinkedIn experts regularly. He is the highest-ranked professional on LinkedIn in the UK for Recommendations, and as head of the Professional Banking Academy, has trained banking professionals for over ten years to network more confidently and effectively using a blend of offline and online techniques. To fix up a Possibility Chat with Rob and talk through details, prices and availability, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone +44 (0) 115 846 2127.

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