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 is the tool I developed during my search, to prep and follow-up:
http://candidateschair.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/networking-meeting-checklist.pdf

Hopefully, this will serve as a good starting point for making something work for you.

Good luck today!

Mark Richards
www.candidateschair.com
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