5:00 P.M. Registration
5:20 P.M. Pre-Dinner Program
THE PATH TO
SMARTER NETWORKING!
Connect Your Personal Network to
Interactive Social Networks!Presenter:
Paul Collins, Jordan-Webb
Between December 2009 and
February 2010, Linkedin grew from 55 million users to 60 million users. In a similar
time-frame Facebook grew from 350 million users to 400 million users. These statistics
alone don’t tell much about the usage, success or effectiveness of social
networking sites, but they do indicate that lots of people are joining up. For
you as a consultant, it’s how you integrate your own personal network into
social networking that makes the difference.
If you've been exposed to
networking before, please be prepared to think differently and come with an
open mind and a willingness to be challenged. You'll discover distinctive
behaviors that could make a significant difference in your approach to and
payback from both face-to-face networking and online networking. Your new
perceptions will transform your notions of collaboration, sharing and win-win
and will enhance your capability and success in building, maintaining and
sharing connections with others.
This encounter with
networking will be quite different from what you may have previously
experienced as it will help you visualize and peel away the six layers of your
own personal network. It will provide you with awareness of resources within
your personal network and will help you understand how to use those resources
within interactive social networks.
Paul Collins became an independent
consultant in1981 and since 1989 has provided high performance facilitation and
consulting services to clients, using new
techniques and technologies that support collaborative problem solving and
decision making. Since 2003, these collaborative technologies and techniques
have migrated from fixed meeting rooms to the world-wide-web, and today, Paul
helps clients move into the 21st
century by hosting and facilitating virtual
meetings. Paul's avocations include ethnic
folk dance, traditional square and contra dance, folk festival production, web
design, hiking & biking, foreign languages and public speaking. Paul is an
instructor in the Chicago SummerDance Program (teaching on 7/27, 8/5 and 8/18).
In his “spare” time, he’s an instructor at De Paul University’s Continuing
Education Program and a student in Northwestern University’s Leadership and
Organization Behavior Program. He is also a certified
Forté Communications
System Facilitator/Coach and a Board Member and Program Committee Chair of MSPC.
Paul's
client experience ranges from corporate to government to not for profit,
including: National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), GATX
Corporation, McDonald's Corporation, Motorola, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, BP Amoco, U S Cellular Corporation, Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, Commonwealth Edison, Loyola University, Chicagoland Chamber of
Commerce, Chicago Wilderness, Oregon Liquor Control Commission, Pace Suburban
Bus Service, U.S. Bankruptcy Court and Girl Scout Promise Group.
6:15 P.M. Announcements/Introductions
6:30 P.M. Networking
7:00 P.M. Dinner
8:00 P.M. After Dinner Program
