Networking Groups – Limits

I belonged to four regular networking groups and attended others occasionally.  Two of my regular groups were related to my profession.  My other regular groups were smaller with a limited number of members served as each other’s board of advisors.

Belonging to different types of networking groups was very useful as groups can have limitations:

·         Single industry – Can be limitations to network as you often know the same contacts

·         Single profession (e.g. Finance) –  This can be good networking, but I always joke it’s ‘competitively cooperative’ as you tend to be looking for the same role

·         Uneven attendance or similar attendees

·         Too broad of attendance – difficult to networking with people with whom you want to network

Trying ExecuNet (www.execunet.com) or a similar networking meeting, so there is a mix of professions, so it gives you a broader set of people with whom to network.