Make your Goals Actionable (and another example)

You have hopefully distilled your networking goals and worked out why you are networking.

While you may create specific actionable goals for individual networking events, you must also make sure that you are plugging that gap between you overall networking goals and the small bite-sized objectives for the events you are attending.

We are saying hello to Autumn this week – so why not take another look at your goals for the rest of the year.

To help you along I will share another one of my personal networking goals.

Example:

One of my goals is to meet more people and to actually get to know them – specifically within my own company (internal networking).

I have broken this down into a number of strategies and tasks.

Strategy: Target specific people that I want to get to know better

• Create a list of people to have coffee with and book them in.
• Create a list of people to have lunch with and book them in.

Strategy:  Break out of my usual everyday routine.

• Agile Working (including working in other offices, different desks and in collaborative spaces).
• If just sitting in a canteen sit with different people on a regular basis.

Strategy: Take advantage of what is already going on

• Encourage a colleague to attend a networking event with me (target: invite two people along to each networking event that I attend).
• Attend Company Social Events.
• Join an Internal Network within the Company or take on a position of responsibility.
• Volunteer to Organise an Event

Whatever your goal – make sure you break it down into bite-sized tasks within a number of strategies that you can then use to push yourself forward towards your goal.