Making Friends and Influencing People 

5th Apr 2023 1:00pm-2:00pm 

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"Success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint." - Dale Carnegie

Networking can be fun, stressful, rewarding, and daunting - all in one conversation. For us introverts out there, it can be a dreadful proposition altogether. We all know already how networking plays an important role in managing our careers, in this webinar we'll look at expert strategies, and develop an understanding of how persuasion, negotiating skills, and an outward focus on others can play an important role in making friends and influencing people who can support our careers.

Darcey Gillie has over 12 years’ experience supporting the careers of PGRs, research staff, and senior academic colleagues. She was pedagogical lead on the FutureLearn MOOC “Career Management for Early Career Academic Researchers”, which won a national award for impact and was used by researchers all over the world. In addition to being an experienced careers consultant for research students and research staff, she was a professional development manager at the University of Sheffield where she taught on the PG Cert in Academic Practice, the Sheffield Teaching Assistant (teaching skills for PGRs), developed training in blended learning for HEA fellowships, coached fellowship applicants, and coached successful National Teaching Fellow candidates