The Network Effect
Breakout 1:
Why did you give yourself this number?
How does networking make you feel? What makes it easy or hard?
When have you felt comfortable networking?
Why do we even need it?
Breakout 2:
Discuss:
•What was “wrong” with your network (if anything)?
Birds of a feather: Your contacts are too homogeneous, all like you.
Network lag: Your network is about your past, not your future.
Echo chamber: Your contacts are all internal; they all know each other.
Pigeonholing: Your contacts can’t see you doing something different.
•What areas were you strong in? Why?
•What areas might benefit from greater focus? Why?
•What advice do you have on networking?
Breakout 3:
Where might you go F2F or online to network?
What experiments can you try?
Who can you benchmark? Why? What does your quick analysis reveal?
Breakout 4/5: surprise :)
Breakout 5:
Context: Relevant challenges space
you work in (short simple background)
Action: What you do in that space—
I help, I build, I create, I connect, etc.
Audience: Who you help
Proof Point: Example of where you have done the above (Bonus— show your values)
LKF: Interesting stat/fact, upcoming trend, something that would surprise people outside your area, but still be useful to them. Just ONE thing.
