“Divide and conquer” is a successful team approach to face-to-face networking when your goal is “all for one and one for all.”
We used it years ago when I was in public relations for AT&T, and several of us might be attending the same dinner meeting or conference.
We might arrive together; however, we would then split up and reconvene on the way home or back in the office. We touched bases in aggregate with far more people than each of us could ever have successfully connected with solo. Plus our confabs gave us the opportunity to review networking outcomes.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll examine this method in more depth so that hopefully you, too, can benefit from it.
In the interim, if you want to brush up on your face-to-face networking skills, read Breakthrough Networking: Building Relationships That Last.