Hey there, Cultivator! Welcome back to my channel! In today's video,
I want to chat with you about virtual networking.
In this era of social distancing that you might find yourself
in webinars. And you're wondering,
how do I connect with the other attendees here?
You might be in a Zoom webinar and you are chatting on the side,
or you might be in a Facebook or LinkedIn live stream where others in the
audience are sharing their insights. You know,
that they also have really great backgrounds and you want to connect with them,
but you're not entirely sure how so I'm going to break down 2 tips that I have
for you that you can implement very easily,
the next time you find yourself in one of these scenarios.
Because something tells me that top knots and a
virtual networking is here to stay for a while. Before we dive in,
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Over these past few months,
I have attended a lot of different webinars as well as
participated in various online seminars or summits and
conferences that have gone 100% virtual.
Because virtual networking is here to stay,
and it's not the same as being able to go into a room and speak
with somebody face to face and not have this limit of time, if you will,
pressured on you. Your strategy and approach has to be a bit different.
What I mean by this is whenever I have observed different chats, going on,
a lot of people are chiming in they're sharing their thoughts,
they're being engaging, they're really great participants. However,
you don't really walk away with knowing anything about that person who is
chatting alongside you.
A lot of the feedback that they're chiming in with is very surface level it's
things like I agree, but they're not necessarily sharing why they agree,
or they might say that's a really great point without sharing any justification
or rationale behind what makes it a really great point. Now,
as you're leaving your comments,
I encourage you to also share your quick introduction.
You want to establish yourself as an authority or give people some background
and context of who you are. To give an example, instead of just saying,
I agree with you, that is a very key point because blah, blah, blah,
you might start that comment with as a human resources business professional for
the past seven years and currently working at Tom's.
I agree with you because I see this happen recently and blah, blah, blah,
blah way. Right? So you can see just by adding a quick intro,
it's going to get people curious of, Oh wow. I need to connect with this person.
I would love to learn more about their background or their experience, or,
Oh my goodness. We're looking for an HRBP to join our team.
Let me connect with this person.
The second tip I have for you is to make sure that before hopping on you just
copy and paste your LinkedIn URL, as well as your best contact information.
So you know that in these events, the chat goes by very quickly,
but also once the session ends, typically the chat disappears.
If you are connecting with somebody, you're having this back and forth,
you can absolutely message them privately,
or you can put the at symbol and their name and tell them, Hey,
I'd love to connect afterwards.
Feel free to connect with me here and then drop in again,
copied and pasted LinkedIn profile, as well as your email address. Similarly,
at the very end of the chat, if it's a very targeted group,
you felt really engaged with other people.
You can absolutely share that invitation to connect with you. And again,
that could be something like I really enjoyed this webinar today.
Thank you so much for all of your guyses great energy and your thoughts.
In case you want to connect, here's my LinkedIn profile and my email address.
And again, you can plop that into the chat. I hope you found those tips helpful.
Let me know in the chat the next time you're in a networking event, online,
whether or not you have utilized these tips.
And if you have your own tips that you want to share with our community,
be sure to leave it in the comment box. And as always,
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