Meet Greet & ProsperRoy Sheppard

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• Prepare yourself to get connectedPrepare yourself to get connected• Walk into any room with confidenceWalk into any room with confidence• The art of conversationThe art of conversation• Exit strategies with style and panacheExit strategies with style and panache• Follow-up systemsFollow-up systems• Receiving help from every corner of your worldReceiving help from every corner of your world• Being part of an inter-networked teamBeing part of an inter-networked team

7 Steps – Meet Greet & Prosper

Overcoming Resistance

• Brainstorm reasons you may be reluctant to be proactive about networking.

• What does this resistance cost you in professional/career/business terms?

Art of Conversation

• Why did you decide to go into this sector?• What’s the best thing about working at your

organisation? (if there is one!!)• What makes your organisation unique?• What advice would you give someone

starting out in this sector?

Art of Conversation• What have you noticed about trends

within this sector in general?• What are the biggest successes you

have enjoyed in the past year?• How would I recognise a potentially

valuable person for you?• What one sentence would you like others

to use to describe your organisation?

Conversation

• Introducing yourself• “What do you do?”• Your organisation’s success stories• Introducing others• Being introduced• Terrible memory?

• Prepare yourself to get connectedPrepare yourself to get connected• Walk into any room with confidenceWalk into any room with confidence• The art of conversationThe art of conversation• Exit strategies with style and panacheExit strategies with style and panache• Follow-up systemsFollow-up systems• Receiving help from every corner of your worldReceiving help from every corner of your world• Being part of an inter-networked teamBeing part of an inter-networked team

7 Steps – Meet Greet & Prosper

Network with five individuals

• How many previous ICCA Congresses have you attended, which was the best one, and why? If this is their first ICCA Congress, in what concrete ways is it different from other international conferences they’ve attended?

• What does that individual think is special or unique about their company or destination? Try to find out something sufficiently interesting that might encourage you to recommend them to one of your own clients in future?

• Find out as much as possible about one major international meeting that the individual has been working on recently: either a bid that’s been won, or an event that they’ve recently helped to organise or host.

• How big is the event, when does it take place, is there a rotation pattern and if so what. How is that client doing in the current economic situation, is attendance up or down, are they struggling to attract ?

• funding/sponsorship/exhibitors, etc. How well do they know the client and any decisionmakers or –influencers within that client’s organisation?

Networking Break

6 Degrees of Separation

• Bill ClintonBill Clinton

• Kevin BaconKevin Bacon

• Tiger WoodsTiger Woods

• MadonnaMadonna

• Colonel GaddafiColonel Gaddafi

Who do you, your colleagues and clients

want/need to know in the

next 12 months?

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