Improving your Small Talk and Networking Skills: Language and Cultural Intelligence Necessary to Build your Network

This 2 hour intensive workshop is designed to attain real results in order to enhance your Small Talk and Networking abilities. You will gain language, strategies, and skills in this fully interactive workshop that will allow you to strengthen your network to better represent yourself, your lab, and your institution. This workshop includes skill-based practice addressing the linguistic and cultural demands that non-native speakers of English regularly experience in casual yet professional conversation at conferences and in similar settings.

Included topics:

• Small Talk/Networking: Examining your Current Level of Effectiveness
• Defining the Purpose of your Network
• Language for Initiating, Extending, and Ending Small Talk Conversations
• Cultural Norms of Networking Situations in the US Context
• The Elevator Pitch- Marketing your Science
• Understanding Non-verbal Communication and the Messages you’re Sending

Instructor Profile:

Mallory Fix Lopez, MS Ed/ TESOL
Founder/Applied Linguist, language connectED
www.languageconnectedllc.com

Mallory is an Applied Linguist and Educator focusing her teaching on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Mallory has been coaching international scholars, fellows, and postdocs since 2013 at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), The Perelman School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), the Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs at UPenn, Temple University, Nihon Kohden Corporation (Japan), and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Okinawa, Japan. She is a faculty member at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Mallory has also facilitated program development and management for the Free Library of Philadelphia and Garces Foundation (Philadelphia). Mallory’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, and Reuters, among others. She previously lived and taught in Guadalajara, Mexico. Mallory holds a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and a Bachelor of Science in Education, both from Temple University.