Networking Meeting – What’s Interesting and What’s Relevant

Here’s how I rated my networking activity:

Getting an introduction – Interesting

Setting up meeting – Interesting

Preparation for the meeting – Relevant

Having the meeting – Interesting

Actions following the meeting – Relevant

The preparations before and actions following are where to focus your attention as they have the most benefit toward getting results.    Here are three tips to help you:

One: Schedule time on your calendar to prep for a meeting – I cannot emphasize how important this is.

Two: Spread out your follow-up across your week.  Try to avoid waiting until Friday to send all your follow-up notes, by then you are usually tired and less effective.

Three: Record all of your prep and follow-up.  As your networking continues, trust me that things tend to run together you cannot remember everything – no matter how good your memory!

Here are two tools I developed during my search, to prep and follow-up:

·         Networking Meeting Checklist

·         Daily Point System

Hopefully, these will serve as good starting points for making something work for you.