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The Knock Method®: Outreach for Success Essential Communications Skills

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The Bridge Pitch: Human-Centered Personal and Team Branding

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10 Ways to Inspire & Activate Inclusion in Our Careers & Communities

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Prepare to Connect: Build High Quality Career Relationships

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Breaking the Barriers to Meaningful Connection at Work

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Build Resilience Through High Quality Career Relationships

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EXPLORE WORKSHOPS

Is your team at work, student or employee resource group (ERG), or non-profit board looking to build a culture of connection and inclusion at work? Is your professional group looking for practical career development strategies to help them get clear on career direction, discover and pursue their ideal job, get the promotion to grow their career, or make a meaningful career change? Do you feel that remote work has created emotional distance among your team members but you want to bring them closer together? You’ve come to the right place! The Knock Method® workshops, delivered to 2,500 students and professionals to date in partnership with global organizations including Aon, Brink’s, Inc., Salesforce, non-profits like Year Up, and government organizations including Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Office of Human Resources, led by career development instructional designer, facilitator, and bestselling author of KNOCK, Rebecca Otis Leder, are research-based with field-tested strategies and skills-based learning experiences that will help your team:

  • uncover commonalities
  • get back to the human side of business
  • uncover opportunities to help colleagues
  • create solutions to address your career challenges
  • help each group member craft a personal brand that connects and opens doors to new opportunities
  • build high quality relationships that support them in building meaningful careers
 
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Opportunities Knock's Skills-Based Learning Programs Mapped to the Career Journey & Professional Development Goals

Hover over the circles with icons in the middle of the graphic below, then click the yellow highlight circles that appear to explore the training programs and learning experiences we offer at Opportunities Knock corresponding to where employees or individuals are in their career journeys and related organizational employee Learning & Development and Talent Development goals and desired outcomes.  Request a workshop or schedule a consult (30-minute Partnership option) to discuss bringing these learning programs to your organizations and teams.

Career Connections Skills-Based Lifecycle with Learning Milestones

Hover over the circles with icons in the middle of the graphic to see the training programs we offer related to your employee and professional development goals, skills you’re working to develop, and and learner career lifecycle stage. For example, are you looking to develop skills to help your new hires learn how to communicate and collaborate effectively throughout your organization and with customers from Day 1? Hover over the top 2 middle icons with the magnifying glass and the rocket ship then click the yellow circles when they appear in the graphic.

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Workshops & Training Programs

  • The Knock Method®: Outreach for Success – Build High Quality Career Relationships
    • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual) and an online self-paced blended format with live sessions
    • Learners will build these skills:
  • The Bridge Pitch: Craft Your Personal and Team Brand for Presence, Commonality, Growth, and Success
    • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual)
    • Learners will build these skills:

Workshops & Training Programs

  • The Knock Method®: Outreach for Success – Build High Quality Career Relationships
    • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual) and an online self-paced blended format with live sessions
    • Learners will build these skills:
  • The Bridge Pitch: Craft Your Personal and Team Brand for Presence, Commonality, Growth, and Success
    • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual)
    • Learners will build these skills:

Workshops & Training Programs

  • Breaking the Barriers to Meaningful Connection at Work
  • Description: What’s holding you back from having meaningful, or difficult conversations at work? Whether it’s about how to collaborate more effectively in your team or across teams to deliver better customer outcomes, or broaching the topic of performance, raises, and promotions, what are the blockers to conversations about progress?
  • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual) and an online self-paced blended format with live sessions
  • Learners will build these skills:
  • The Knock Method®: Outreach for Success – Build High Quality Career Relationships
    • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual) and an online self-paced blended format with live sessions
    • Learners will build these skills:

Workshops & Training Programs

  • 10 Critical Questions and 30 Actions to Inspire and Activate Inclusion in Our Careers and Communities
    • Inspired by the 2024 International Women’s Day theme of: #InspireInclusion, Rebecca will bring forward the organizational and social psychology research that informed her 5 step method to building high quality career relationships, The Knock Method®, to provide students, employees, teams, and leaders with 10 Ways to Inspire & Activate Inclusion in Our Careers & Communities. Learners will uncover strategies to
      • Challenge the current state to create a culture of inclusion
      • Lead with empathy to reduce isolation
      • Build communications skills for empowerment & self-inclusion
      • Garner support, generate community
    • Learners will build these skills:
  • Breaking the Barriers to Meaningful Connection at Work
  • Description: What’s holding you back from having meaningful, or difficult conversations at work? Whether it’s about how to collaborate more effectively in your team or across teams to deliver better customer outcomes, or broaching the topic of performance, raises, and promotions, what are the blockers to conversations about progress?
  • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual) and an online self-paced blended format with live sessions
  • Learners will build these skills:
  • The Knock Method®: Outreach for Success – Build High Quality Career Relationships
    • Offered live synchronous (in-person and virtual) and an online self-paced blended format with live sessions
    • Learners will build these skills:
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"Rebecca is engaging, knowledgeable and possesses a wealth of shareable experiences that demonstrates the power of The Knock Method. She provides a toolkit to attendees to put the framework into practice. In a world of virtual meetings, the workshop was vibrant and refreshing!
kaila-richardson
Kaila Richardson
Senior Manager, Strategic Projects & Risk Management at Aon

Book a KNOCK Career Development, Job Search Skills, or Connection & Inclusion Workshop

I’m Rebecca Otis Leder, the creator of The Knock Method®, and bestselling author of KNOCK: How to Open Doors and Build Career Relationships that Matter. My highly interactive, hands-on, transformative workshops help students and professionals develop the skills to cultivate high-quality, mutually-beneficial, long-term, positive professional relationships at every stage of their career. The Knock Method has been recognized by FastCompany, Inc. Magazine, NPR, and PBS, and workshops have been delivered to over 1,000 students and professionals in partnership with nonprofits such as Denver Scholarship Foundation and YearUp, and global organizations, including Aon and Salesforce.

Choose from seven workshops (outlined below) built on one research-backed framework, The Knock Method®: 5 Steps to Building High Quality Career Connections.

You’ve come to the right place, whether you’re looking to:

  • Help students and grads begin their careers ahead of the game by building job search and career readiness skills
  • Help new hires start off on the right foot by building connections at work and boosting employee engagement right away
  • Achieve next-level internal collaboration to reduce organizational redundancies and foster innovation, or
  • Enhance your leadership development programs with mentorship and employee advocacy and emerging/developing leaders to empower their teams.

Take a look at the programs below and request a workshop to share more about your needs.

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The Knock Method Workshop® Spotlight

Host a Workshop for Your Work Team to Cultivate Deeper Connection (yes! even in a virtual world) Ready to shake up remote work? Are you looking to bring more meaningful connection and inclusion strategies to your work team, non-profit board, or student group? Bring a KNOCK workshop to your group! Not your average Zoom calls, we’ll have an immersive, hands-on experience that aligns with your team and company culture. Attendees will walk away with lasting strategies to open doors to more meaningful connections at work – internally among teams and externally with clients and partners, their own copy of KNOCK, and 10 free resources. Designed for remote and in-person teams, The Knock Method® has been taught to over 700 students and professionals at:
  • Global organizations including Aon, Amazon, and Salesforce
  • Workforce development organizations including YearUp and PINK Careers
  • Non-profits including JewishColorado, Silicon Valley Jewish High Tech Community, Israel on Campus Coalition, Denver Jewish Chamber of Commerce, and
  • Student groups including University of Texas American Marketing Association and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Think this might be a fit for your group or want to chat about a custom workshop that jives with your team and company culture? Submit a form and let’s chat about a workshop that fits your group’s needs.
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