This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.
As organisations navigate hybrid work, rapid change, and increasing pressure on performance, one challenge consistently rises to the surface: employees are finding it harder to build meaningful professional relationships. Isolation, weakened trust, and fragmented communication are now recognised as real risks to collaboration, engagement, and retention.
Networking is often misunderstood in this context. Many professionals associate it with self-promotion, extroversion, or transactional exchanges that feel forced or inauthentic. Yet in today’s interconnected economy, the ability to build genuine, human relationships is not a “nice to have”; it is an essential workplace skill.
Most people already have what they need to build strong connections, but modern work has made those connections harder to form and sustain. Authentic networking isn’t about schmoozing or selling yourself.
It’s about seeing each other clearly, building trust across boundaries, and creating the conditions for collaboration to thrive.
In this Authentic Networking session, participants practise practical, human-centred approaches to connection that counter isolation, break down silos, and strengthen professional relationships. Through reflection, discussion, and actionable tools, participants learn how to turn networking into a skill that supports wellbeing, collaboration, and long-term success.
During the expert session, Michelle Schechter engages participants through a series of interactive activities.
Participants will leave with:
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: As organisations navigate hybrid work, rapid change, and increasing pressure on performance, one challenge consistently rises to the surface: employees are finding it harder to build meaningful professional relationships. Isolation, weakened trust, and fragmented communication are now recognised as real risks to...
A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.
Michelle Schechter is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.3 out of 5, across 30 responses, and rate Michelle personally 4.7 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Michelle, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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