Hello Month 2 Master, it’s nice to re-meet you. You may ask, why are you bringing this back after such a long hiatus? Well, let me tell you.

So much of our world is driven by relationships, including professional advancement. Meeting new people for professional reasons is something I put on the back burner for a while, but lately I’ve realized the importance of this to continue to learn about opportunities in my career.

This is why I’m dedicating an entire month of M2M to networking. I hope that this concrete plan will keep me motivated and hold me accountable for what I want to do.

Here’s my mission statement:

Within the next month, I will have completed or set up five networking meetings so that I can understand my development areas and build toward my future opportunities. Signs of my progress will include setting up meetings, conducting the meetings, and having clarity about how I can use my time and energy to grow professionally, and applying the learnings to a future personal projects.

Here’s my action statement:

The networking activities I will conduct are contacting relevant folks I met at conferences or through friends, identifying new folks to contact, preparing thoughtful questions for my meetings, and following up after my meetings.

Project Plan:

• Week 1
  • Publish M2M post
  • Compile initial list of folks to chat with
• Week 2
  • Research scripts to use for networking outreach
  • Make initial outreach contacts
• Week 3
  • Conduct initial networking interviews
  • Follow up with folks that did not respond to initial contact
• Week 4
  • Conduct initial networking interviews
  • Follow up again with folks that did not respond to initial contact
  • Send follow up after completed interviews
• Week 5
  • Compile learnings from each interview
  • Compile funnel analytics of response rates
  • Publish recap blog post

I’ll check in at the end of the month. Happy June.