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Double Your Social Skills and Instantly Connect With People
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(1,673 ratings)
17,845 students

What you'll learn

  • Start a conversation with anyone, including people you find intimidating
  • Double your social confidence and engineer a "winner's state" in any room
  • Network with top business people, senior leaders, and high-profile contacts
  • Destroy the fear of rejection that quietly holds you back from connection
  • Become a stronger communicator in both your professional and social life
  • Recognize and avoid the biggest body language mistakes most people make
  • Overcome the fear of public speaking and group attention
  • Eliminate approval-seeking behavior that makes you come across as smaller than you are
  • Get Your Official Certificate of Completion to Boost Your Resume

Course content

9 sections75 lectures6h 28m total length
  • Introduction4:02

    Welcome! I'm very happy to see you here!

  • Course Content Update 2023/2024 - Personal Message from Jimmy Naraine2:22
  • 400,000+ Students & 85,000+ 5* Reviews Milestone: THANK YOU SO MUCH1:58
  • Post-Covid Update: NEVER Feel Bad About Improving Your Social Skills!4:32

    Anyone who is trying to improve themselves DESERVES MASSIVE RESPECT. Please, don't forget about it and give yourself a nice pat on the back. You are one of those rare individuals who take ACTION rather than just waiting for things to change.

  • Quick heads up0:56

    Just a quick heads up so you are aware of how Udemy's system works.

  • Zoom Out From Your Life2:17

    Attached: Summary PDF:) I believe that before taking any course it's important to:
    1) analyze your current situation
    2) define your vision - what changes you want to make in your life
    3) commit to completing all lectures with the end goal in mind

  • Low Status Mentality11:44

    Attached: Summary PDF:)

  • My painful teenage years with social anxiety (video from speech)8:14

    Attached: Summary PDF:)

  • 2022 Fresh Video: How To (RE)Build Your Social Circle post Covid5:49

    Here's my answer to one of the most common questions I get.

  • 2022 Upload: My Proven System for Building COURAGE and Handling FEAR12:49
  • 2022 EXTRA: Proven Hack to Overcome Procrastination and Take Massive Action4:25
  • 2022 EXTRA: The Importance of Having a Clear Intention for Each Interaction5:47
  • 2022 EXTRA: How To Stay in Touch with People In Spite of RESISTANCE4:21
  • How To Practice Social Skills during Covid Pandemic?4:46

Requirements

  • No prior background knowledge needed, since this course covers social dynamics holistically
  • A journal to document the progress you make as you implement each lesson in real life

Description

Most of what determines your career and your life happens through other people.

Who you talk to, who remembers you, who brings you into the room, who recommends you. Social skills aren't a "soft" topic. They are the operating system underneath almost every professional outcome that matters.

This course rebuilds that operating system from the ground up. How to start a conversation with anyone, how to come across as confident without trying too hard, how to read the room, and how to make people genuinely want to be around you.

Why learn from Jimmy Naraine:

  • Udemy Instructor Partner teaching since 2013, with 123,000+ verified TOP reviews

  • 505,000+ students from 194 countries enrolled in Jimmy's courses

  • Delivered corporate training for Chemours, Westpac, HARMAN, Lion, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini, Wipro, Cognizant, Airtel, and other multi-billion dollar companies

  • Former Goldman Sachs and Allianz employee turned location-independent entrepreneur, with 13 years of full-time work across nearly 100 countries

  • Featured in Entrepreneur, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, The Economic Times, FoxNews, EL PAIS, TRT World, and Business Insider

  • 3-time TEDx speaker; keynote speaker at DNX Global, Afest, Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival, MindvalleyU, and Digital|K

  • Mindvalley Author, co-created an educational program with Mindvalley CEO and NYT bestselling author Vishen Lakhiani

  • Winner of the first Udemy Innovation Award

  • Stress-tests what he teaches in extreme environments: climbed a 7,000m mountain, completed a full Ironman, swam in Antarctica, did fight camps with world champions, became fluent in 5 languages


What people are saying about Jimmy's work:

"Jimmy's talk received the 2nd highest rating out of 100+ main stage speakers at my event, Mindvalley University, and got a 60-second standing ovation."

Vishen Lakhiani, Founder of Mindvalley, NYT bestselling author

"Jimmy spoke at the DNX Festival in Lisbon with hundreds of participants from all over the world and his talk was one of the highlights that made the event a huge success. He is one of the most captivating speakers I've worked with."

Marcus Meurer, Founder of DNX

"Jimmy Naraine is a master at breaking apart the difficult and complex. With the most simple and basic steps, he plainly demonstrates how to digest each and every morsel of information, make an actionable plan, and completely demystifies an impediment you originally thought was insurmountable. Jimmy Naraine is a true teaching savant."

James W. Skotchdopole, Oscar-winning producer (Birdman, Django Unchained, The Revenant)

"Having had several extended conversations with Jimmy, as well as watching some of his online courses on productivity, I can say with full confidence that it is IMPOSSIBLE to not feel completely fired up and inspired after spending some time with his content."

Harry Mack, Freestyle rapper who performed twice on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and with Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore


What you'll get inside the course:

A complete system covering the practical side of social skills: starting conversations, handling rejection, building rapport, networking with senior people, and removing the approval-seeking habits that make you come across as smaller than you are.

The curriculum moves through the layers of social mastery: getting out of your own head and zooming out from your life, the "Low Status Mentality" trap and how to escape it, your proven system for building courage and handling fear, the importance of having a clear intention for each interaction, and how to stay in touch with people in spite of internal resistance.

Beyond the core, you'll work through Keys to Initiating Great Interactions, Taking Your Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem to the Next Level, How to Deal With Rejection, General Principles and Strategies, Networking in Business, and a full bonus section on Public Speaking, because the difference between holding a room of three and holding a room of three hundred is mostly the same skillset, scaled.


Who this course is for:

  • Professionals whose career depends on relationships, networking, and being remembered
  • Anyone whose social confidence doesn't match their professional competence
  • People who go quiet in groups, meetings, or networking events when they shouldn't
  • Salespeople, consultants, founders, and anyone who needs to build trust quickly
  • Professionals returning to in-person work, conferences, and events after years of remote
  • Anyone who wants to be genuinely better at the human side of work and life