Whew! It sure is hard gettin' back into the writing mode again, since my vacation layoff! Of course, as with any first couple days after being away, there were a million (or was it two mil?) details to attend to.Anyway, I had to share a trick that I learned awhile back and am still using.
When I'm at the WEN meeting, each member or guest gets an opportunity to stand to introduce themselves and give a short explanation of the type of help they might be looking for.
In the past I wouldmake a note of some of these requests and later I'd be able to r
eact to a few. Now I am still writing names, but with a slight change in focus. As someone talks and I decide that I'd be interested in talking more with them, I write their name on my yellow legal pad. Just doing this has probably increased my scheduling of appointments from the WEN networking meetings by at least 500%. Before, when the meeting would end, I would be so overwhelmed with whom to meet, that I didn't meet anyone. Now I have a roadmap. Just because I take that one little, tiny extra step.It's so simple. Why did it take me so long to figure it out?????
What are some other tricks that you know about that I need to know????
1 comment:
I also take notes on members requests at meetings. If it is someone I want to meet or something I can help them with, they get a "Star" next to their name.
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