Be a conference commando
by Sherry Wade, Stein | September 18th, 2007
A conference is a huge opportunity to build relationships with extraordinary people, people who might have significant impact on your professional or personal success. To make sure that you maximize the return on your (and your institution’s) investment of time and money to attend, you can’t afford to be a conference commoner. You have to be a Conference Commando.
In preparation for the NACAC annual conference, we encourage you to read these tips from Keith Ferrazzi, author of best-selling book Never Eat Alone and one of the world’s most connected people. He talked himself into Pennsylvania’s Kiski School on scholarship before making his way to Yale for his undergraduate degree and then to Harvard for his MBA. Now, as Founder & CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with advanced strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales, and enhance personal careers.
Click here to download a PDF of Keith’s Conference Commando tips.
If you benefit from these tips, you may also enjoy Keith’s Tip of the Week email. Subscribe today by visiting his web site.
Never Eat Alone tells a tale of relationships and how success is about working with people, not against them. “Relationships are more like muscles — the more you work them, the stronger they become.” How to use the internet in your relationships, how to broadcast your brand, how to expand your circle — it’s all there and it is valuable stuff for you, the dedicated college, university, and school professionals who are in it not for the money, but for the process of education. You will find and understand and appreciate the obvious altruism in the pages of this book.
