OUR APPROACH & MEETING STRUCTURE
Our meetings are designed to better know you & what you do.
Topics discussed are relevant to business & personal growth:
- There will be a meeting topic that two questions are derived from. The purpose of this is to answer a question reflecting on your previous experiences, a question about something occurring in the present, or giving thought to a goal or future event.
Members are asked engaging questions that elicit honest and thoughtful answers:
- CONNEXX has a philosophy that business is based on relationships and sales are based on relatability.
- Each question about past experiences requires honesty, vulnerability, and awareness. We have more in common with our screw-ups than our successes, and sharing lessons learned brings everyone closer together and gives perspective to other members.
- The question pertaining to present and future events requires creativity, confidence, and thought.
- Having to think of immediate answers to current and future situations will reveal much about your personality and your ability to tackle situations as a professional, in addition to as a person.
A monthly meeting dedicated to learning and better understanding what our members do:
- Just repeating something someone doesn’t understand over and over doesn’t help them to understand it any better!
- When you tell people what you do at a networking meeting, no matter how many weeks in a row or countless times doesn’t mean they know or understand the scope of work or what it entails.
- So, how can members think of people for you to meet if they don’t understand exactly what you do?
- Our Business Q&A monthly meeting allows members to ask you specific questions to better understand your business, who you’re looking to meet, and who would be a good introduction that we can make for you.
- This is an opportunity for you to display your knowledge, mastery, and experience as a professional with confidence to give assurance to members so they can personally recommend you or make an introduction.
Intra-meeting member connection.
This round of connecting is where we pair and share.
- Following the two questions asked in the first group, you’ll give your answers and listen to theirs. This should lead to light conversation where you can ask your own follow-up questions to get to know someone by listening instead of hearing someone talk about themselves and what they do.
"Five Mintros"
- For this round we again pair you with another member to answer three questions about opinions, choices, or experiences.
- These can be serious or silly questions that are meant to learn a variety of things about someone in little time.
- This will improve your ability to answer questions on the spot, build confidence, and be more concise with awareness to how long you’re taking to respond.
- In the final rotation of our meeting you’ll be in a small group and asked who you met with, and to tell us one of their answers to the three questions just shared with you.
- Your answer demonstrates how well you were listening, provides information that may resonate with another member and initiate a one-to-one to take place, and how well you can work with others.
CONNEXX compatibility.
Always be thinking of others & others will always be thinking about you!
- Who did you meet with, when did you meet with them, how did it go, what did you learn about them, do you have anything in common, is there anyone you know that you could introduce them to?
- These are all great questions, but what’s more important are their answers, and what’s more important than that is remembering their answers!
- Our CONNEXX Compatibility Form will provide you with five effective questions that have been very successful at helping members learn the most about each other in the least amount of time.
- In addition to the questions, you can enter their answers, as well as your notes/comments which will upload to a spreadsheet for you to have everyone you met with listed in one place.
- We suggest following up with the people you have a positive one-to-one with, and provide a place for you to enter a date to do so.
Staying connected
CONNEXX HQ
- Members can stay connected on this platform with channels ranging from, activities, assorted topics, recommendations, announcements, and upcoming events.
Member Directory
- You can access CONNEXX members contact information on the app.
- This is available to all active members and we ask that you don’t share their information for marketing purposes or add them to email blasts.
- We also don’t suggest randomly reaching out to contact people for a one-to-one.
- The idea here is intentional introductions connecting you to others you have things in common with and someone thinks you should meet.
- We believe that by using this approach to connect you with others will increase the opportunities for leads to be referred, collaboration to take place, or introductions to be made.
Meeting reminders & rsvp accountability
- A weekly invite is sent to reserve your desired meeting.
