Beyond Networking

New Wave Networking
When you mention networking to most people, it conjures up visions of rooms of people sipping on coffee, banging on about what business they’re in and scrambling around in pockets and handbags in search of business cards to hand out.
As a freelance project manager, I have attended quite a few of these bashes, acknowledging that in business today, they are an essential element to securing new contacts and business.
The only problem I have is that, when I rummage round in my bag, I’m more likely to find a magazine and some haribos, then those all important business cards! I expected the same old dishwater dull offering and thankfully, it was anything but that.
John Turner is a business philosopher who helps businesses think out of the box and beyond traditional business ideals. He led our networking session, taking on a 360 journey, which was fun, challenging and engaging.
Looking at networking from a philosophical perspective, John took the group through 3 stages of networking, using questions and challenges to drive our discussion and make us look at new takes on networking and what we wanted to achieve from it.
We were encouraged on each rotation to meet more new people, not just people who worked in the same or similar industries, but those people who we might never connect with usually.
My final group consisted of a life coach, a music production company owner, a fashion designer, an IT infrastructure guru and moi ! I left the session with all of their cards and a sincere promise from me, that I would follow up with all of them, which I’m actually looking forward to doing.
Sometimes the things that we aren’t looking forward to doing, turn out to be the very things we were looking for.
AND JUST ONE LAST THING :
A massive thank you to Juliet C who submitted this event on our Unilocal London events calendar — thank you for finding this gem, held at Club Workspace, Clerkenwell.