creating connections: make it personal
DESCRIPTION
Creating Connections networking exercise from the March 2013 Bay Area Consultants Network (BACN) meeting. Elevator pitches are about as exciting as elevators. Share something personal: where you went to high school and something very few people know about you.TRANSCRIPT
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• People connect to people, not to business
cards.
• Elevator pitches are as exciting as elevators
are.
• You gain interest by being interesting.
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• Where you were born, went to High School or college.
AND
• Two things about you that very, very few people know. Make them as personal as you feel comfortable.
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• I’m Michael North
• Went to Dublin High School and Cal State Hayward
• I was born with clubbed feet. I have had over 200 stitches and wore corrective shoes until I was in High School
• I love hats. I am down to under 50 now. I have had over 100. I get them, wear them awhile and then donate them. I have hats from 4 continents.