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Make Your Contacts Count - Lawyers in Transition Live Webcast

Make Your Contacts Count:
Networking Know-How for Business and Career Success

Free Live Webcast

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
(Eastern Time)

Speaker:

Sue Schnorr
President of Training Insights, Inc. and Associate for Contacts Count
Rochester, New York

The program is free to all attorneys, but pre-registration is required.

Register online now

Learn the rules and tools for making great connections in a variety of settings.  Make strategic use of your networking time, find resources, get more visible, and attract opportunity.  

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how showing character and competence makes people want to build their relationships with you. Whether you’re a master networker or someone who says, “I’m too busy,” “I’m too bashful,” “I’m too broke!” the confidence and competence you’ll feel knowing these skills will help you make networking an art . . . not an accident! 

You’ll learn how to:

• Master the 3 key moments in every relationship
• Remember names - - and teach them yours
• Answer "What do you do?" in a way that shows your character & competence
• Steer small talk to uncover resources and opportunity
• Teach people how to use your expertise, what to count on you for
• Become the natural and only choice when opportunity arises

About the Presenter

Sue Schnorr is the President of Training Insights, Inc. and Exclusive Associate in New York for Contacts Count, a U.S./Canadian training company that specializes in strategic networking skills. In keynotes and workshops she gives professionals in association, educational, and corporate audiences, practical strategies for getting things done through networking and alliance building. The strategies are from the book Make Your Contacts Count, written by Contacts Count’s founders, Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon (2007, NY, American Management Association) and are recognized nationally as state-of-the-art.

The Committee on Lawyers in Transition is sponsoring free LIVE webcasts for all attorneys in need of career assistance.

If you are looking to make a career change, leave your current job or transition back to the workforce after time away from the profession, the Committee on Lawyers in Transition is here to help.  Designed to help attorneys in transition, the career development series of programs offer advice and resources to increase the odds of finding rewarding work. 

Materials will be forwarded to all registrants, along with the web access code and link to view the program.  Participants will be able to ask questions of the presenters using the online link. 

If you are unable to participate in the LIVE webcast, the recorded archive will be available online and posted at the Committee's website - www.nysba.org/LawyersinTransition.

The “live” portion of the July 22nd program will be held at the Monroe County Bar Association located in Rochester at the address below:

Monroe County Bar Association/Center for Education
The Honorable Michael A. Telesca Center for Justice
One W. Main Street, 10th Floor
Rochester, New York 14614

If you would like to attend the July 22nd program in person in Rochester, please contact Kathy Suchocki, Staff Liaison to the Committee on Lawyers in Transition at (518) 487-5590 or ksuchocki@nysba.org. 

For more information about the Committee on Lawyers in Transition,
go to www.nysba.org/LawyersinTransition

Visit the Committee blog at http://nysbar.com/blogs/lawyersintransition

Please note - You will need to login with your member record or create an online web record.

Forgot your login?  Call the Records Department at (518) 487-5522.

The last day to pre-register online was July 21, 2009.

Members, please login to get member discounts.

Wednesday, July 22
3:00pm - 5:00pm	Webcast Registration

Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities:
NYSBA welcomes participation by individuals with disabilities. NYSBA is committed to complying with all applicable laws that prohibit discrimination against individuals on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of its goods, services, programs, activities, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations. To request auxiliary aids or services or if you have any questions regarding accessibility, please contact the New York State Bar Association .