<p>Do you remember how you felt the last time you entered an unfamiliar networking situation? While some can’t wait to meet someone new, many individuals prefer to hang out with people they already know. Yet to advance in your career, expanding, deepening, and diversifying your connections is essential. Gloria Petersen, CPP, Founder and President of Global Protocol understands your hesitancy and even fear. In this CareerCast, Gloria shares her deep knowledge, extensive experience, and practical strategies to manage professional and social situations with finesse, confidence, and positive presence.</p>

Do you remember how you felt the last time you entered an unfamiliar networking situation? While some can’t wait to meet someone new, many individuals prefer to hang out with people they already know. Yet to advance in your career, expanding, deepening, and diversifying your connections is essential. Gloria Petersen, CPP, Founder and President of Global Protocol understands your hesitancy and even fear. In this CareerCast, Gloria shares her deep knowledge, extensive experience, and practical strategies to manage professional and social situations with finesse, confidence, and positive presence.

Unpack the Fear of Connecting

Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want.

You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker in advance of the broadcast. Then check in the third Friday of each month to listen to the interview. For 24 hours after the broadcast, you can submit follow-up questions.

We’ve created a CareerCast webpage for each broadcast where you can get more information about that month’s topic. The page will feature useful links to tools, books, articles and first-hand stories.

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Chicago Booth believes in life-long career development to help you maintain your professional edge. Through CareerCast, an online, audio recording series, we give alumni and students the chance to hear experts discuss topics such as crafting your story, making an industry or function change, managing employees, taking the entrepreneurial plunge and more. Because these talks are available online, you can access them anytime, anywhere and as often as you want. You will have the opportunity to submit questions to the speaker in advance of the broadcast. Then check in the third Friday of each month to listen to the interview. For 24 hours after the broadcast, you can submit follow-up questions. We’ve created a CareerCast webpage for each broadcast where you can get more information about that month’s topic. The page will feature useful links to tools, books, articles and first-hand stories.

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