
Explore human centered networking to proactively develop professional relationships, using mushrooming to engage second degree connections and weak ties for authentic, grounded networks.
Master human-centered networking by building mutually beneficial, sincere relationships grounded in trust and meaningful connections. Leverage weak ties to grow a quality, well-aligned network.
Master the fundamentals of AI prompt engineering in just 5 minutes! Perfect for busy professionals who want to quickly learn how to write effective prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI models.
In this compact but comprehensive video, you'll learn:
What prompts are and how they work with AI models
Essential delimiter techniques to structure your prompts
How to use definitions to reference content within delimiters
Markdown formatting to create clear, hierarchical prompts
Hands-on practice with our interactive prompt engineering simulation
Whether you're in business, marketing, content creation, or any professional field, understanding prompt engineering is becoming essential in today's AI-driven workplace. This crash course gives you the core concepts you need to start writing better prompts immediately.
BONUS: Get access to our interactive prompt engineering simulation at eazl.link/psim to practice your new skills!
Explore three ways to build professional connections: proactive networking, inbound connections, and referral-based networking, through human-centered approaches that create mutual benefit and trigger first contacts.
Learn to request professional connections with a personal, value-driven message that uses the recipient's name, explains mutual benefits, and shows initiative by reaching out to recruiters.
You can use this AI prompt with ChatGPT or Claude (both generative AI models offer nice free tiers). You can also use this with Meta's Llama and Google's AI models (for example, PaLM and Gemini) through the Eazl AI app (account required).
Eazl typically recommends using ChatGPT's generative AI models as the first choice and, for longer prompts, Claude from Anthropic (available at claude.ai).
Coming up next: Learn how to connect with these red nodes or social butterflies with this LinkedIn SideBySide. Pull up your LinkedIn profile and let's learn together.
Explore how referral-based networking leverages the six degrees of separation, demonstrates the Aatish number, and guides you to build high-quality connections and inbound meetups.
Plan a meetup to practice inbound networking by defining your area of interest, choosing a location, inviting a speaker, and distributing the event with RSVP to collect attendee contact information.
Explore the pig method for intro chats to decide if a relationship aligns with your goals. Learn about preferences, communication channels, and overlapping interests to reduce friction and guide time.
Craft and practice your eight-second career elevator pitch by outlining what you do, your interests, and how they shape your future goals, to position yourself in others’ networks.
Manage your professional network by scheduling follow-ups with tools like Google Calendar and Outlook, plus Yet Another Mail Merge and Mail Butler for timed, customized messages.
Explore three informal chat examples that build professional relationships—with a diversity supplier, a career services head, and a recruiter—emphasizing active listening and mutual fit.
Harness active listening in informal chats to move from tense beginnings to collaborative networking with community partners, including the Urban League, churches, and local economic development groups.
Identify two common ways to advance a new professional relationship: pursue an opportunity for mutual benefit (OMB) with light commitments, and form informal alliances to share opportunities and connections.
Explore how one connection spawns many others through mushrooming and spoors in professional networking, revealing second-degree connections, ethics, and strategies for network maintenance.
Explore how spores symbolize pathways to new professional networking connections, and how attentive mushrooming reveals an endless source of easy opportunities shared within your network.
Leverage LinkedIn for prospecting and introductions, use Buffer to build your personal brand over time, and deploy lead magnets like resume writing clients and the Robert Half salary guide.
Explore mushrooming in networking in action as Nick connects me with Thomas to expand opportunities, showing how mutual benefit and shared goals grow entrepreneurship on Chicago's south side.
Learn the CCMM Personal Networking Strategy in Less than 90 Minutes
Use LinkedIn to make new connections
Get AI prompts to accelerate your progress (use with any model: ChatGPT, Claude, PaLM, etc.)
Conversational etiquette and small talk strategies
Talk about yourself and your goals
Expand your network fast through 2nd-degree connections
There are no prerequisites to participating in this course. Participants who are capable of using LinkedIn will realize additional benefits from some hands-on lectures that make use of the professional social network.
Perfect for Early or Mid-career Professionals, Entrepreneurs, and Freelancers
Though this course can be applied across function, level of seniority, and geography, some audiences that will align well with Eazl’s CCMM approach to professional networking are:
Early-career professionals who are on the job hunt or looking to define a career path
Mid-career professionals who are looking to make career changes or move to a more senior position in their industry or within large enterprises
Entrepreneurs interested in building relationships with industry leaders, financiers, groups of users, and peers in their industry
Freelancers interested in finding professionals that compliment their skillset, leads or clients, or collaborators
If you want to learn how to build a valuable professional network, then this course is for you. Eazl's CCMM Professional Networking Strategy introduces you to a systematic approach to professional networking in the modern, digital world. In this course, you’ll learn how to develop connections, qualify new connections before investing additional time and energy, steer new relationships in the earliest days, and expand your network by using a 2nd-degree networking strategy. You’ll learn how to do it fast and with Eazl’s innovative, fun, visual online course format that’s both engaging and informative.
In this course, you will:
Take a human-centered approach to professional networking that allows you to be authentic as you develop relationships
Source new connections with inbound, referral, and proactive networking strategies
Plan offline meetups as a way of positioning yourself as a thought leader
Qualify new connections by using short conversations to determine alignment
Meet new professional connections for the first time (either in-person or virtually)
Expand your professional network fast through the practice of mushrooming
This course is also chock full of activities that allow you to practice what you’re learning. Work with me over 3 exercises to craft your 8-second career pitch, use helpful technologies to automate and communicate with your network at scale, and develop a strategy for working with a new professional connection for the first time.
Why is Professional Networking a Useful Skill?
Learning professional networking can benefit you professionally as you gain access to well-aligned professionals and develop relationships that can generate professional opportunities, revenue, and connections to other professionals. It is a skill that people working inside larger companies and on their own can use to and boost your career prospects.
Why Learn with Eazl?
Learning authentic, human-centered professional networking can be challenging and complex. To navigate this maze, you need a course that offers a systematic approach, training on the use of modern digital tools, and real examples that enable you to see these skills in practice.
Your instructor, Davis Jones, is a former Fortune 500 recruiter in the San Francisco Bay Area and an award-winning online instructor. He has experience applying this system in corporate, freelancer, and entrepreneurial environments. He’s taught career management and professional networking for over 5 years to more than 100,000 students.
In addition to Davis’ instruction, you’ll likely enjoy Eazl’s unique production style that blends animation, on-screen visual reinforcements, and real-world examples.
By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently apply the CCMM approach to human-centered professional networking and qualify for a verifiable certificate should you wish to demonstrate your work to clients or employers.
Join me on this adventure today! We’ll see you inside the course.