Do you find networking hard or worse, insincere? Is it difficult to remember faces or in what context you met someone? Is effective follow up something you could use pointers on? Learn how to use digital tools and old fashioned charm to answer these questions and take your networking skill to the next level. Using digital tools like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn combined with the ethos of Adam Grant’s 2013 Award Winning Book “Give and Take,” this session will give you tips and systems for successful networking. Part presentation, part demo, part workshop – this session will allow you to utilize the skills you learned around effective networking with your fellow conference and planning participants.

Kate Spaulding will lead this session

In her day job, Kate is the Director of Intergovernmental & Legislative Affairs for the NYC Department of Probation (DOP). She manages all of DOP’s external relationships with other city and state agencies, elected officials, and community institutions. Kate is also an Adjunct Professor at the Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies, part of SUNY Empire State College. She teaches Labor Economics to Local 3 union electrician apprentices and developed a new Associates and Bachelor’s level course on NYC Municipal Government and Politics. This fall, Kate was honored to bring on Public Advocate Letitia James to co-teach the Politics course and join the HVACLS. Kate’s latest endeavor is called Ladies of Labor – a network for emerging and current female staff and leadership at NYC unions and worker organizations. Follow her on twitter @PleiaPrinSass

This session is made possible by the New York Paid Leave Coalition; Organizing 2.0; New York State AFL-CIO; New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO; Consortium for Worker Education