What Link 2 is about
Inés is working on an artistic community project that aims to ease social conflicts. She has plenty of drive, but she's missing the hardest part: the funding.
Luckily, she meets Julio, a rather eccentric guru who teaches her to look at her network of contacts with fresh eyes: analyze it, understand how it connects to her goals and choose the networking strategy that suits her best to get the financial boost she needs.
You're with Inés every step of the way, trying out different strategies in the game's simulators and getting feedback with your areas for improvement. Networking stops being about handing out business cards at events and becomes a plan.
What you'll learn
- How your goals and your network of contacts are connected.
- The essential steps to analyzing your network.
- Networking tactics that strengthen your relationships and help you reach your goals.
- How to practice different professional networking strategies in the simulators.
Course outline
- Level1
Analyze your network
Which contacts you have, how they relate to your goals and how to look at them strategically.
- Level2
Choose your strategy
The networking tactics that best fit what you want to achieve, put into practice.
How it plays
Inés's mission
A project with purpose, funding to secure and a very unusual guru.
Networking simulators
Try out strategies in realistic situations, with no risk and no stress.
Personalized feedback
See which decisions bring you closer to your goal and which don't.
Leaderboards, levels and badges
Gamification adds a challenge and keeps you playing.
Who it's for
- Professionals who want to really get to know their network of professional contacts.
- Anyone who needs support from their network to move a goal or project forward.
- Teams that want to practice professional networking to improve results, personally and professionally.
FAQ
How long does Link 2 take?
About 1 hour. It's played online on any device with an internet connection, in Spanish, English, French or German.
Can we add it to our LMS?
Yes. Play it on the Game Strategies platform or add it as one more course in your LMS (Cornerstone, Moodle, SAP SuccessFactors…), and track each learner's and group's progress in real time.
What does this networking skills training cover?
Link 2 focuses on networking with a strategy: exploring how your goals relate to your contacts, analyzing your network and choosing the tactics that fit what you want to achieve. Then you practice different strategies in the simulators.
How is it different from the rest of the Link series?
Each game covers one part of networking: Link 1, personal branding; Link 2, getting to know and analyzing your network; Link 3, growing and maintaining it; and Link 4, profiting from it with well-made requests.
Shall we play?
Tell us what your team needs to practice and, in a personalized demo, we'll show you the solution that will make the biggest impact on your organization.