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Networking Doesn’t Have to Feel Like a Performance

Get the Networking Event Survival Kit™ and learn four practical ways to walk into your next event with less pressure, start conversations more naturally, and leave with connections you’ll actually want to continue.

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You’re Good at What You Do. So Why Does Networking Still Feel So Awkward?

You know the room could hold future clients, referral partners, collaborators, or the connection that opens your next door.
 
But first, you have to figure out where to stand, how to introduce yourself, what to say after “So, what do you do?” and whether you’re supposed to keep talking—or politely escape.
 
Meanwhile, traditional networking advice is adding even more pressure: Work the room. Perfect your pitch. Collect contacts. Find an opportunity.
 
Instead of feeling connected, you feel self-conscious, drained, or like you’re forcing conversations that neither person actually wants to have. You may leave with a phone full of new LinkedIn connections and no real idea who you want to speak with again.
The problem isn’t that you’re bad at networking. You’ve been given a transactional goal for a relationship-driven experience.
 
There’s a more human way to enter the room.
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Stop Working the Room.
Start Finding Your People.

Instead of measuring success by how many people you meet, you’ll learn how to focus on genuine connection: starting conversations with what’s already around you, staying curious without interrogating anyone, and making your interest in reconnecting clear.

 

Four Simple Shifts for a More Human-Feeling Connections

Inside the one-page Survival Kit, you’ll learn how to:

Make Finding Your People the Goal

Release the pressure to collect contacts, chase opportunities, or talk to everyone. Learn how changing your goal can make the entire event feel more natural and enjoyable.

Start Conversations With the Five Sense Rule™

Use something you and the other person are experiencing in real time to open a conversation—without forcing an awkward compliment or rehearsed introduction.

Build Connection: Six Facets of Connection™

Move beyond “What do you do?” using six areas of curiosity that help you uncover shared interests, experiences, and meaningful connection points.

Express Your Intention to Stay Connected

Release the pressure to collect contacts, chase opportunities, or talk to everyone. Learn how changing your goal can make the entire event feel more natural and enjoyable.

About Your Coach

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Carline Hooker

Founder of NetworKIT Coaching

I used to hate networking…

20 years of advertising industry experience has allowed me to transform consultative sales skills into networking hacks that have grown revenue consistently for sales organizations. With a true focus on relationship building at scale, I have been successful at securing strong connections externally (driving sales), as well as internally (building a strong team to rally around client success). In my first sales role, within a few years, I was able to grow a struggling sales desk from $600k in annual revenue to over $4MM consistently.

After leaving the industry for a 15 month sabbatical, I was able to quickly duplicate my advertising sales success at another organization. It was then I realized that the practical skills and tools I curated were unique and valuable for not just salespeople, and NetworKIT was born.

NetworKIT helps entrepreneurs, business professionals, and students by offering practical solutions to build, nurture, and maintain your network in organic and sustainable ways—by leading with connection. NetworKIT’s content is currently available through workshops and mixers that have attendees leaving with the confidence they need to become a resource for others, and trust that the resources they need are within reach for themselves.