November Course Summary
Have you taken our tour? It's a great way to get a sneak-peak at what the program and site look like.
Business Relationship Mastery includes 10 lessons, each of which sends you out on a real-world mission, supported by video coaching and downloadable articles:
The first four cover our core mindsets for building great relationships:
Adopt Proactive Generosity, the Real Currency of Networking
Deploy Intimacy, Business’ Most Underutilized Asset
Deepen Relationships and Move Forward Faster with Candor
Develop Accountability to Succeed Where You've Failed in the Past
The following six coach you through our Relationship Action Planning process:
Focus Your Goals and Subgoals
Define the Members of Your High-Impact Network
Define Door-Opening Currency to Differentiate Yourself from the Rest
Align and Activate Your Professional Advance Team
Outreach Requires Consistency and Creativity – Create the Schedule!
Renew Your Plan to Sustain Progress over Time
By the end of lesson 10, you'll have created a Relationship Action Plan, with a printable overview for your strategic planning going foward.
Your course also includes two skills webinars:
Weekly support for all tiers includes:
(Tuesday) 12:30pm-1:30pm and 6:30pm-7:30pm Virtual Chat in our online chatroom - Ask questions and meet fellow RMAers!
(Wednesday) 12:30pm-1:30pm Virtual Chat in our online chatroom - Ask questions and meet fellow RMAers!
*All times listed on this website are in Eastern Time (UTC-05) unless otherwise specified
Finally, your membership includes 10 Masterclass presentations. These are audio interviews or audio slideshow presentations delivered through the site on a weekly basis. Sample topics and presenters include:
Keith Ferrazzi interviews Chris Brogan, social media guru and entrepreneur. You’ll get a ton of act-now info on how to rev up your LinkedIn profile, create door-opening currency online, and bring customers to you instead of having to go find them.
Keith Ferrazzi & Tony Hsieh: How to Create a Culture that Promotes High Performance, Collaboration, and FUN Keith Ferrazzi interviews Tony Hsieh, the bestselling author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos. In addition to talking about how to have fun at work, Tony shares great tips you can put into practice immediately for boosting personal and professional happiness on an individual level.
Advancing Your Persuasive Presentation Skills with Rob Buccino
This masterclass preps you to create and deliver killer presentations. Rob is president of NeoCortex, a consulting firm that helps CEOs, top executives, and pitch teams not only master pitch fundamentals, but also add new authenticity, chemistry, and passion to business presentations. This masterclass is a crash course on all of the above.
Just Listen: The Secret to Getting Through to Anyone – and Getting Results with Dr. Mark Goulston
In this masterclass, Dr. Mark teaches you how to bust through business as usual to make a connection with anyone. Learn how to listen like a pro from a former trainer of FBI hostage negotiators – this guy knows his stuff!
Connect More Quickly: How to Automate "Doing Your Homework" with Gist and T.A. McCann
Want the answer to information overload? You'll find it in your network - if you can harness technology to get directly to the information and opportunities you need. Join Gist CEO T.A. McCann in a private lesson on how to use this hot new business tool to stay constantly on top of what's important to the people who are important to you.
Four Steps to Sustainable Peak Performance: Do More and Feel Better with Scott Peltin
You can't build authentic, consistent relationships when you feel like $#%$. Scott Peltin, author of Sink, Float, or Swim, teaches us how to think differently to join the top 5 percent of high-performers. Peltin’s presentation will help you create new habits in four key areas – mindsets, nutrition, recovery, and movement – so that your brain and body are working at their maximum capacity. Squeeze more success out of every hour!
Authenticity and Your Online Brand: Remaining Human in the Social Networking World and Using Who You Are to Your Own Advantage, with Kate-Madonna Hindes
This masterclass is a great beginner’s guide to getting the “real” you across online. Though especially helpful to small business owners, it will prove useful to anyone who needs help cultivating an authentic virtual presence that screams “Friend me!”
Make Yourself Indispensable: How to Succeed in This (or Any) Job Market with Allison Hemming
Star headhunter Allison Hemming walks you through the steps that will make you and your brand a hot commodity. Whether you’re looking for a new job or just increased job security, you’ll learn: the most important thing on LinkedIn that you’re probably NOT doing; how bad careers happen to good people and how to avoid it; and a set of action steps that will prepare YOU to land the best job you’ve ever had.
Work Less and Do More: Get-It-Done Guy’s Nine Steps to Work Less and Do More with Stever Robbins: Whip your work flow into shape with productivity guru Stever Robbins. Learn why working hard is never the answer, the secret to knocking items of your to-do list quickly, and how to turn your workspace into a veritable beehive of productivity.
Program Length
Relationship Masters Academy memberships include 12 weeks of program support (see our pricing page for membership tier details), starting at course open, November 12. The Premium and Premium Plus tiers include a full year of site access, so you can work through the material at whatever pace you'd like - but again, staff and coaching support is only guaranteed through 12 weeks.
Working through the entire course in 12 weeks will require you to work the program for about 3 hours a week.