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 online you’ll be added to a breakout room with two other people for 10 minutes. If you arrive early you will get a bit longer to chat. If you’re in-person, grab a drink and just chat to whoever is in the room until you are invited to sit down around the table and start the meeting.
Agenda Part 1 - One Minute Pitches
After a brief overview of what to expect, whoever is running the meeting will invite each attendee in turn to do their one minute pitch. This is your opportunity to introduce yourself and tell everyone how you help your customers.
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 and you can talk about that in the Contributions part of the meeting. You’ll find some useful hints and tips on one minute pitches in our Meeting FAQs.
Agenda Part 2 - Member Presentation
Each meeting our members take it in turns to do a 10 minute showcase presentation. Often 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 we ask all attendees who they would like to have a follow up 121 meeting with. Making sure that everyone leaves with onward conversations planned means that there is a greater chance of something productive coming from attendance. Otherwise, all you’ve done is meet some new faces. Only by learning more about each other, and what we can do to help, do we start to get some results from our networking time.
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 information that can help us in our business or personal lives – and a great way to finish the meeting on a high.