It was great stuff :
1) The "Round Robin"
Everybody introduces himself to the rest of delegates - 10 seconds maximum - a good opportunity to let the "world" know what your company does
2) Presentation from Thomas Power, Managing Director of BRE Networking
He gave 3 good tips, and 3 tools to start networking - let me remember -
- you are not here to sell, but to meet people
- listen to people carefully and make sure that they feel like they are the only person you are interested in when you get a chance to talk to them.
- ...mmmh, cannot rember the rest he said!
3) Presentation from Thomas Power
Chairman of Ecademy, I prefered this guy. His moto : networking is "connecting business people", and explained his concept of good network = alway second guy. Basically, to build your network, try to connect people together : by creating a match between two people, you get three new connections back to you.
Instead of going toward people saying : what can you do for me, ask them instead what they are looking for, and try to provide the good match. If you connect people, people witl come back to you, more and more, like a magnet, and your network will expand dramatically.
4) Dinner and networking
We then left the room, and headed up to the dinner room, where everybody got a chance to start using their new "networking skills", and talk to people who can potentially change their life ...
2 comments:
For the record . . . The third thing was 'don't be afraid to ask'. If you are looking for a particular contact make it known. Something about you are only 6 steps away from Geo W Bush . . . scary.
There were three other points; courage, consistency and patience.
Taking notes - moi?
see you later
Godfrey
Thanks god'. May I use the nickname? Hey, looking for passing a degree in networking?
yeah, it is a good one. Funny, the fact that you reply to this blog means that ... well ... it means that I have actually used the tip successfully yesterday!
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