Our FOUR step Meeting Agenda is fun and designed to give you the best results from your networking time...
Start with some open networking
If you’re in-person, grab a drink and chat to whoever is in the room until you are invited to sit down around the table and start the meeting. If you don’t know anybody just ask whoever greets you to introduce you to someone.
If you’re online you’ll be added to a breakout room with two other people for 5-10 minutes.
It’s always good to arrive 15-20 minute before the start of the meeting as the open networking conversations are always beneficial!
Agenda Part 1 - One Minute Introductions
After a brief overview of the agenda, the meeting presenter will invite each attendee in turn to introduce themselves. This is your opportunity to tell everyone how you help your customers and the kind of support you are looking for from the group.
We kindly ask that everyone keeps this to approximately one minute.
As you’re listening to what people are saying, make a note of anyone that you would like to have a follow up conversation with. You can share this during the Contributions part of the meeting later. You’ll find some useful hints and tips on one minute introductions in our Meeting FAQs.
Agenda Part 2 - Member Presentation
Each meeting our members take it in turns to do a 10 minute showcase presentation. This is where they go into more detail about how they work with their customers and the way they do business.
It’s a great way to increase their credibility and often encourages other members and guests to want to have a more in depth conversation with them. Sometimes members use their showcase presentation to teach attendees something useful that they can use in their own business.
Agenda Part 3 - Contributions
We consider this to be the most important part of what we do at Growth Community meetings!
This is where attendees share who they would like to have a follow up 121 meeting with.
Encouraging people to leave with onward conversations planned in, helps you get more from your networking time.
Taking time to get to know people better will give you better opportunities to see how you can help each other.
Also during this part of the meeting we take time to say thank you for anything that other attendees have done for us. Whether that was a great conversation or a useful introduction. It’s often where people give a testimonial or some nice feedback too.
If there are any referrals or business passed then they get mentioned here too. Obviously if you’re new to the group, you will only need to have a think about who you’d like to chat to outside of the meeting.
If you are new to having 121 meetings you might enjoy reading our blog on how to get the most out of them.
Agenda Part 4 - Learning Point
To round off the meeting another member of the group gives us a quick 3-5 minute learning point – a useful nugget of practical information that can help us in our business or personal lives – and a great way to finish the meeting on a high.
Then everyone can get back to some open networking and getting their 121s booked in their diaries.
