Smart Tips: Networking
What you'll learn
- Reframe networking as authentic relationship-building, not a transactional chore
- Identify your personal networking style and choose the best modes for you
- Visualize your network using tiers and shared-interest spheres to uncover who you know—and who you need to know
- Create a compelling elevator pitch and leadership brand for any setting
- Use simple weekly habits and GenAI tools to build a sustainable practice
- Track your progress with clear metrics to improve and grow your network
Requirements
- A desire to improve your networking skills with quick, actionable tips
Description
Are you tired of networking that feels awkward, transactional, or just plain ineffective? You’re not alone—and you’re not stuck.
Smart Tips: Networking is your fast, flexible guide to mastering the art of authentic connection. Led by executive coach and former Silicon Valley design leader Tutti Taygerly, this course offers 47 laser-focused micro lessons—each under 5 minutes—designed to help you network with purpose, personality, and ease.
Whether you’re looking for a new job, building your business, or expanding your influence, you’ll get actionable tools to help you show up with confidence and build real relationships.
What You’ll Learn:
• How to shift your mindset and stop feeling awkward about networking
• Science-backed reasons why connection matters for your success and well-being
• Tools to identify and grow your personal network—from Tier 1 allies to loose LinkedIn ties
• How to network effectively as an introvert or someone with limited time
• Crafting a memorable elevator pitch and making a great first impression
• Building a sustainable follow-up system that feels natural (not needy)
• Leveraging GenAI to draft messages, research people, and prep for events
• How to handle rejection, silence, and the hidden biases that get in your way
Why Smart Tips Works:
Each lesson is a standalone micro-coaching session you can watch anytime. No fluff, no filler—just practical insights and clear actions you can apply immediately. Jump around. Watch what you need, when you need it.
Who this course is for:
- Job seekers and career changers looking to build strategic, authentic relationships
- Introverts or quieter professionals who want networking to feel more natural
- Remote workers and freelancers aiming to stay connected and visible
- Entrepreneurs, founders, and consultants growing their client or partner base
- Students and recent grads unsure how to start building a professional network
- Mid-career or senior leaders expanding their influence and mentoring others
- Anyone who finds networking awkward, draining, or confusing—and wants a smarter, more human approach
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 411 Reviews
- 1,313 Students
- 2 Courses
Tutti Taygerly speaks on leadership and innovation bringing a unique blend of her 22 years experience in Silicon Valley and her current focus as a leadership expert. She coaches cofounders and tech leaders to embrace their unique leadership style to achieve professional impact and a sustainable company culture. She guides “others” who never felt like they belonged in a professional setting — including women, people of color, immigrants and the neurodiverse — to confidently share their voices with the world. Previously she was a design leader at design firms, startups, and large companies including Disney and Meta.
She has given two TEDx talks, spoken at SxSW, and for numerous companies including Google, Stripe, Amazon, Nordstrom, and Doordash. Tutti writes for Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, and Fast Company and her book Make Space to Lead shows high achievers how to reframe our relationship to work. She’s currently bewitched with her second book on leading when you feel like an "other."
Tutti grew up in seven countries on three continents and is settled in San Francisco as her home base. She spends her time parenting two teen girls, obsessively reading, and paddling out for the next wave.