A quiz entitled “Scale of 1 to 10” is attached to Topic 9 of Workshop 1.

Make sure you complete this quiz before attending Workshop 2.

It will only take you about 2 minutes to complete!

This Quiz helps you rate the things that are important to you on a scale of 1 to 10.

We hope that you will see the success of your business endeavours as merely a means to help you achieve the End goals you truly desire. Perhaps you originally started your business in the hope of achieving these End goals.

There is a great short video about Means Goals vs End Goals by Vishen Lakliani that follows the episode you are listening to right now.

This video, plus Simon Sinek’s famous TED talk “It’s Starts with Why”, will help you prepare for Workshop 2. The focus of Workshop 2 is on why it’s so worthwhile committing a small amount of time every day to build your network as well as engaging in networking activities.

In preparation for Workshop 2, think about some End goals that are important to you.

For example:

My End goals are to:

• Create more memories with my loved ones and close friends
• Strengthen relationships with those close to me
• Have more adventurous experiences – especially travelling to exciting and interesting places
• Make a greater difference in the lives of others

The way I plan to make these End goals happen is:

• Build my network to discover more ways to increase my recurring income while decreasing the time required to earn that income.

The Builders Menu options are divided into the following groups.

• Membership
• Syllabus
• Meetings
• Podcasts
• Your Activity

It’s essential to explore these options in your own time. However, we will give you a quick overview of some Builders Menu options now.

The Membership options include

• Register or rejoin
  • These are the options that you will access when you are onboarding a new member or rejoining a member who has been taking a break. If someone has been in the CC previously, you must use the rejoin option rather than the register option. That way, the rejoining member can access any previous personal information. By default, a rejoining member will be connected with the person who was previously coaching them. However, this can easily be changed by Admin if the rejoining member wants a different Connector.
• Update your profile
  • When you initially register in the system, provided you have the CC version of the MyMostTrusted Chrome extension installed and activated, and you are logged into LinkedIn, your default values will be automatically copied from your LinkedIn profile.
  • The update option of the Builder’s menu allows you to update those details.
• View your invoices
  • This is important for accounting and tax. You can print an invoice or download it as a PDF.
• Update your payment details
  • This option allows you to update your credit card details.
  • If, for any reason, your monthly subscription payment is unable to be processed, you will be notified by the system. The system will try again in 7 days, and you will again be notified if your payment fails. After that, the system would try again in another 7 days and notify you if there was a problem. Finally, the system will cancel your membership after 21 days if it cannot process your payment.
  • If, for any reason, your subscription is cancelled, use the rejoin option to restart with the CC.
• Cancel your membership
  • We have no upfront lock-in contracts. A such, you can cancel your subscription at any time. We only want you on board if it works for you to be on board!

There is a great deal of information contained in the Syllabus. 

It’s ideal if you can go through this information step by step with your connector. However, the most significant benefit of doing this is the relationship you build with your Connector and the facilitated introductions they can make for you with others in the CC.

There is a full version of the syllabus, which you could walk through from one end to the other. However, we recommend you work through our Fast Track syllabus so that you can start taking network-building action as soon as possible. Typically the rest of the information you need will unfold as you need it.

Our Zoom meetings drive everything.

If you want to find out what meetings are on, access the “What’s On” option of the Builders menu.

One of the great benefits of this calendar is that the event times are shown in the timezone you logged in. You can see for which time zone the events are displayed from the bottom line of the calendar.

Our Weekly workshops are our most essential Core meetings.

Here are a few things to note about our weekly workshops

• All workshops contain a breakout section to introduce new members
  • When you find someone keen to build their network, you can book them in for this session using our Calendly booking system accessible through the “Book guests into a CC Intro” option of the Builders menu. You’ll see this under the “Your Activity” group of options
• All workshops commence with what we call “a magic waiting room”. As you join the meeting, you will be assigned to a group where you can meet and hear from others in that group. Typically this lasts for about 15 minutes, after which the meeting host return everybody to the main room.
• The format for the first workshop of the month is networking breakouts
  • In the first meeting of the month, Zoom will randomly assign you to a small group of others. These sessions last for about 40 minutes, so there is plenty of time to connect with everyone else and learn what they do.
• The format for the other workshops of the month is what we call “Small Learning Groups.”

For all workshops apart from the first of the month, you choose the workshop you should attend.

Start with workshop number 1, and each week progress to the next workshop until you reach Workshop number 5.

Here is a brief overview of workshops 1 to 5.

• Workshop 1 is Welcome and Orientation
• Workshop 2 is simply titled “Why”. This workshop helps you better understand the value of building your network. Don’t skip this one. It’s pretty eye-opening, and you must know what your new team members will learn when they attend this workshop.
• Workshop 3 helps you think about who you know that may be interested in building their relationship based network as part of your team, using the CC system.
• Workshop 4 explains the process we have developed to help you quickly find great network-building partners.
• Workshop 5 explains how to find great network-building candidates on LinkedIn using the MyMostTrusted Chrome extension.

Once you have completed Workshop 5, we have Workshops 5a & 5b designed to help you overcome any obstacles and become more efficient and effective with the process.

Workshop 5a is appropriately named “Help”, and Workshop 5b is called “Let’s Play”.

You can hang around workshops 5a & 5b as much as you like to learn how to get better results and interact with others to learn great hints and tips or simply resolve any problems you may have.

Workshop 6 addresses one of the biggest challenges that most people face: learning how to form consistent habits. Yet, intuitively most people realise this is one of the most significant barriers to achieving the success they desire. 

Experiencing workshop six may help you or your team members become more consistent in network building as well as other activities that are important to them.

Workshop 7 is about onboarding new members into your team. There is a lot to cover, so we have broken this workshop into 4 sessions. Each week, the facilitator of this session will give a quick overview of the process and then focus on one of the sessions. The focus session for the week will be included in the name of this Zoom breakout session—for example, W07 dash Session 1.

Workshop 8 is designed to help you improve your team building and leadership skills. Again there is a lot to cover, so this workshop has 4 sessions. Each week the focus will be on a different session.

Most people struggle with how best to invest their time. 

Workshop 9 helps you work out how best to allocate the time you have set aside to build your network.

We all want to figure out how to be most productive. 

Workshop 10 covers tools and tips that will help you become more effective. This is invaluable. Just imagine if what you (or your team members) learned in this one workshop saved you time in all your other endeavours. It’s possible that this could save you more time than the entire time you invest in network-building.

Workshop 11 is called Professional and Personal Development.

This is one of our most popular workshops. 

Each week we have an expert in their field delivering inspiring information and hints and tips that will help you in a wide variety of areas.

There is a great deal of excellent information contained in the Workshop Content.

Often you will want to quickly find something you came across in one of the workshops.

You can easily do this using the workshop SEARCH function. You’ll find this search bar located at the top of the Workshop grid.

You’ll find this function fast, powerful and easy to use. As you start typing, a list of possible results is displayed.

For example, if you wanted to access the details on setting up or using the MyMostTrusted Chrome extension, you could simply type those words into the search bar.

The search bar is so good! Make sure to try it out.

Another very popular and effective meeting is the Results Accelerator.

At a Results Accelerator meeting, a trusted and consistent contributor gives a presentation covering their background and an overview of their business.

At the end of each RA, the participants brainstorm about who they know who may be a good connection for the person who has just presented. Typically a great deal of advocacy is generated through these meetings.

We currently have 2 of these Results Accelerator meetings every week.

In most cases, the same presenter delivers their presentation at both meetings, thus gaining the broadest exposure to CC members and their contacts.

Our Special Interest groups are also very popular.

These special interest meetings are suggested and run by CC members.

The CC advertises these meetings on the What’s On calendar.

The idea of these SIGs is that CC members associated with a particular industry may help one another.

A good example is the Tech Enablement Group.

This group exists to help business owners achieve more through Technology.

The participants in this group learn about businesses that could use the services of members of this group.

Our Podcasts are invaluable.

We have 4 types of Podcasts.

(1) A Podcast of all the written material contained in each workshop. An example of this is the podcast you are listening to right now.

(2) A Podcast of all the written material contained in each of our Syllabus topics.

(3) A Podcast of “Our Classics”. This is a curated playlist of great TED talks, articles and other talks from various sources. These talks are typically inspiring, enjoyable, paradigm-shifting, and informative.

(4) Special interest Podcasts. For example, we have a Podcast of talks around how to best allocate, manage and multiply your time.

One of the most popular tools accessible from the Builders menu is the Collaborators+ Workbook.

Among other things, this Google spreadsheet gives you the ability to list and access the details for all other members of the CC. A great feature of this spreadsheet is the ability to search by name, industry, location, etc.

Our Syllabus provides a step by step process that you can follow during your weekly onboarding sessions with your Connector.

Not only will you learn a great deal, but these sessions will also help you build a relationship with your Connector, who will help you meet relevant others in the CC.

It is pretty common for you to be completely unaware that one collaborator is recommending you to another.

In a sense, you are hands-off - uninvolved.

In other cases, a collaborator may have advocated for you to one of their trusted associates and arranged a meeting for the 2 of you to meet. 

During that meeting, you begin to explain what you do. The other person stops you saying something like: “no need to explain if Geoff has recommended you; all I need to know is how soon can you start.”

Compare that with the usual sales cycle where you continually explain why you are better than the competition.

In the end, it’s about earning trust with others.

In the words of the late Zig Ziglar, “when you help enough other people to get what they want - you get what you want.”

Which attitude produces the best results: Giving or Taking?

Professor Adam Grant has researched this question in-depth in his book Give and Take, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, translated into 30 languages.​

Named one of the best books of the year by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Oprah says it’s one of her most riveting reads.

This book is on Fortune’s must-read business books, Harvard Business Review’s ideas that shaped management, and the Washington Post’s books every leader should read.

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. 

But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. 

It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. 

Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.

Using his pioneering research as Wharton’s top-rated professor, Adam Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. 

Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries. 

Combining cutting-edge evidence with captivating stories, Grant shows:

• How one of America’s best networkers developed his connections.
• Why the creative genius behind one of the most popular shows in television history toiled for years in anonymity.
• How a basketball executive responsible for multiple draft busts transformed his franchise into a winner.
• How we could have anticipated Enron’s demise four years before the company collapsed (without extensive financial analysis)

“As brilliant as it is wise, this is not just a book—it’s a new and shining worldview.”

“Look at the work of Adam Grant… he has the data to show that giving works.”

Many people have a taking style – erroneously believing they are givers.

Uppermost in their minds is achieving short-term gains before actually earning trust.

Professor Grant’s research shows that the only time Takers achieve greater results is in the short term (typically less than one year). 

After that, the return accruing to Givers far outweigh those achieved by Takers.

Suppose you are interested in achieving your best individual results over the medium to long term. In that case, it’s worth getting your head around this concept, and we recommend reading Professor Grant’s book.

Even if your natural style leans towards impatience for short-term results, it may be worth considering how you can authentically adjust your style for far greater results in the medium to long term.

Building your network of trusted relationships does take time and patience. However, it is essential to know that a small commitment of time each day typically yields results beyond your wildest expectations over time.

As Bill Gates said:

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year but underestimate what they can do in ten.”

When you build a team of team-building advocates, you effectively become the leader of your team.

While some people relish the thought of being a leader, others are fearful that they will not be capable of leading a team.

In general, most things are accomplished by teams of people rather than by individuals acting alone.

If you are not confident about your leadership skills, the CC is an excellent place to gain confidence for the following reasons.

• It is a very friendly environment, and many people in the CC will be willing to help you, particularly your Connector.
• There are many great Podcasts that you can listen to that will help build your skills and confidence.
• You will usually have more knowledge about the CC NBS than the members of your team. In other words, your team members are likely to have confidence in you and seek your help.
• In the end, your goal is to find leaders because leaders are multipliers and want to build their own teams. If you find leaders who are more confident or want to build faster than you, happy days!

Perhaps one of the most commonly asked questions is, “How much time will it take?”

We are strongly committed to continually refining our systems and processes to reduce the amount of time it takes you to build an exponentially growing team.

Nevertheless, you must understand that you are investing a small amount of time so that you can greatly MULTIPLY your time. Rory Vaden brilliantly explains this concept in his TED talk titled “Multiply your time rather than just manage it”. You will find that talk in the Podcast for this workshop.

One very effective use of your time is to invite suitable candidates to experience the CC by attending the introduction session in our weekly Workshop. This means you can participate in other workshop sessions while your guest is attending the Intro session. They will fill out a short questionnaire at the end of the session, which will be immediately emailed to you.

We provide many other tools that can save you time in any endeavour. 

What if, as a result of your CC journey, you learn to save more time overall than you actually invest in building your network and still reap the enormous benefits resulting from building your network?

Some people are not comfortable reaching out to strangers using LinkedIn.

This fear is usually quickly overcome when you realise that the people you are reaching out to will immediately see your goal is to build trust and help others. In other words, you are not there to sell them anything. 

It should quickly become apparent to those you are reaching out to that you can provide them with an enormous amount of value because of the people you can introduce them to (once they have gained your trust). Even when you first join the CC, your connector can help your new members meet many others in the CC.

The following is based on a great article published by Ian Leslie on 3rd July 2020.

Close friends are important – but research shows that building networks of casual acquaintances can boost happiness, knowledge, a sense of belonging and more leveraged financial results.

In 1973, Mark Granovetter, a sociology professor at Stanford University, published a paper entitled The Strength of Weak Ties. 

It went on to become one of the most influential sociology papers of all time. 

Until then, scholars had assumed that an individual’s well-being depended mainly on the quality of relationships with close friends and family. 

Granovetter showed that quantity matters, too.

One way to think about any person’s social world is that you have an inner circle of people whom you often talk to and feel close with, and an outer circle of acquaintances whom you see infrequently or fleetingly. 

Granovetter named these categories “strong ties” and “weak ties”. His central insight was that for new information and ideas, weak ties are more important to us than strong ones.

Granovetter surveyed 282 Boston-based workers and found that most of them got their jobs through someone they knew. 

But only a minority got the job through a close friend; 84% got their job through those weak-tie relationships – meaning casual contacts whom they saw only occasionally. 

As Granovetter pointed out, the people whom you spend a lot of time with, swim in the same pool of information as you do. 

We depend on friendly outsiders to bring us news of opportunities from beyond our immediate circles – and so the more of those acquaintances we have, the better.

As the coronavirus changes our routines to interact with fewer people on a daily basis, we shrink our network of important weak-tie relationships.

The coronavirus pandemic may have a direct impact on people’s weak ties, and the benefits they reap from them unless they engage more in what has become the new face-to-face - online conferencing.

Companies that have been forced to change working practices by the crisis may end up making a permanent shift toward home-working and virtual workspaces. 

Although workers stand to benefit in many ways, including increased flexibility, one possible downside of this change is that it can shrink our social networks.

For new increased advocacy, information and ideas, weak ties are more important to us than strong ones

Encounters with weak ties can be good for our mental wellbeing, too. 

When Gillian Sandstrom was living in Toronto as a graduate student in psychology, she often had to walk between two university buildings, passing a hotdog stand on the way. “I’d always smile and say hi to the hotdog lady," she says. "We never even had a conversation, but I felt recognised, I felt connected – and that made me feel good.”

That episode inspired Sandstrom, now a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Essex, to investigate the extent to which people derive happiness from weak-tie relationships. She asked a group of respondents to keep a record of all their social interactions over the course of several different days. She found that participants with larger networks of weak ties tended to be happier overall and that on days when a participant had a greater number of casual interactions with weak ties, say, a local barista, a neighbour, a member of yoga class – they experienced more happiness and a greater sense of belonging.

Even seemingly unimportant encounters, like buying lunch from the same familiar face each day, can lift your spirits. 

Lockdown is making such encounters rarer for all of us. Weak-tie interactions happen when we are out and about, particularly when we’re taking part in an activity of some kind, like singing or cycling. 

A 2016 study, for which psychologists recruited respondents from Italy and Scotland, showed that regardless of nationality or age, people who were members of groups such as sports teams or church communities, enjoyed an increased sense of meaning and security. And the more groups of which they were members, the better.

“Sometimes it’s harder to talk to people we know well because those conversations come with an emotional burden,” says Sandstrom. “Weak-tie conversations are lighter and less demanding.”

By engaging in a wide variety of conversations with weak ties people can learn about how to cope with the various difficulties of life.

They are also a source of novelty, at a time when the days can all feel the same. Sandstrom shared a story about a colleague who has a weekly video chat with her family. “She says they’re running out of things to say, because nobody’s doing anything right now.”

As Granovetter’s work showed, we get much of our new information from weak ties. That provides stimulation but also, in a time of uncertainty, guidance on how to behave.

As we spend more time interacting with only strong-tie relationships, we begin to miss out on lighter conversations that can be less demanding and burdensome.

For all these reasons, we should continue to try and find ways to cultivate weak-tie relationships, in lockdown and beyond. Even under conditions of social distancing, our more distant friends are important to us. “We’re all curious to see how others are coping, what they’re doing, to help us figure out how to behave,” says Sandstrom.

Social media, she points out, is a useful substitute for weak-tie conversations. We can use it to reach out to people we don’t know well for: light, but meaningful interactions. She adds that we can also engage in more weak-tie-style interactions with our strong ties, checking to see how people are without engaging them in a full conversation. The goal, says Sandstrom, is to let others know you are thinking of them without asking for a great deal of time, energy or attention.

After this pandemic has passed we should take care to rebuild our networks of casual acquaintances. We can learn a lot from talking to people we barely know.

Initially, we suggest you speak with people you know who may also be interested in network-building. Workshop 03 is devoted entirely to helping you make a list of good candidates, what to say in a conversation with them and how to invite the suitable candidates to experience the CC.

However, the list of people you know is limited, and the list of people your team members know may be even more limited. So, it makes sense to have a process that makes it easy to reach out and meet great candidates using LinkedIn.

Let’s say you already have an extensive list of good relationships. In that case, consider reaching out to them and suggesting the possibility of working with them in a proactive, advocating and fun environment. In this environment, you can introduce them to many other people who may be great contacts.

Research by Mark Granovetter, a sociology professor at Stanford University, showed the importance of your weak ties.

A paper published by professor Granovetter in 1973 about weak ties became one of the most influential sociology papers of all time.

Until then, scholars had assumed that an individual’s well-being depended mainly on the quality of relationships with close friends and family. 

Granovetter showed that quantity matters, too.

One way to think about any person’s social world is that you have an inner circle of people you often talk to and feel close with and an outer circle of acquaintances you see infrequently or fleetingly. 

Granovetter named these categories “strong ties” and “weak ties”. His central insight was that for new information and ideas, weak ties are more important to us than strong ones.

Granovetter surveyed 282 Boston-based workers and found that most of them got their jobs through someone they knew. 

But only a minority got the job through a close friend; 84% got their job through those weak-tie relationships – meaning casual contacts they only saw occasionally. 

As Granovetter pointed out, the people with whom you spend a lot of time swim in the same pool of information as you do. 

We depend on friendly outsiders to bring us news of opportunities from beyond our immediate circles – and so the more of those acquaintances we have, the better.

As Granovetter’s work showed, we get much of our new information from weak ties. That provides stimulation but also, in a time of uncertainty, guidance on how to behave.

One of the best ways to discover great weak-tie contacts is by consistently identifying great potential network-building partnerships with people on LinkedIn and organising face-to-face meetings with them on Zoom.

As professor Tanya Menon explains in her famous TED talk, the secret to great opportunities lies in the people you have not yet met..

Your team (and, therefore, the number of people that can potentially advocate for you) will grow much faster when they know how to use LinkedIn to find great network-building candidates systematically.

So far, we haven't found a faster way to meet great candidates than by providing tools and knowledge on using LinkedIn for this purpose. Therefore, we have 2 workshops devoted entirely to our process to meet great candidates on LinkedIn and converse with them.

There may be platforms other than LinkedIn, but how effective are they?

More importantly, how necessary is it to look beyond LinkedIn when our experience tells us that 200 connection requests sent to a relevant filtered list on LinkedIn can easily achieve Core-5 in 2 months. When that duplicates, your team will grow plenty fast enough.

When considering investing your precious time, it is essential to consider whether your primary motivation is pleasing methods or pleasing results.

Most of us have little spare time available. So it makes sense to examine how we invest our time. For example, if you are following an enjoyable process that produces a fraction of the results produced by a slightly less enjoyable process, what should you do?

In many cases, we observe that people spend more time than they realise pursuing enjoyable processes without evaluating the results produced by those processes.

Included in this podcast is a great TED talk by professor Tanya Menon about the secret to great opportunities - don’t miss listening to it!

When you row a boat, you go around in circles if you only row with one oar.

It’s the same with network building. One oar represents the effort you put in to expand your team. 

The other oar represents the effort you put in to:

• Meeting others
• Building relationships and
• Advocating for others you trust

These activities tend to be very satisfying. Most people enjoy building relationships and helping others. We refer to rowing with this oar as networking.

Rowing with the network-building oar, on the other hand, is based on activities such as:

• Finding like-minded others for whom network building is important
• Inviting them to become part of your team
• Inviting them to follow the system provided by the CC
• Helping your team duplicate your example

These are the activities required to build an exponentially growing team of team building advocates. This typically leads to a huge amount of advocacy. However, such actions are typically not as fun as meeting great new people already part of the network.

Network-building activities require consistent effort. However, we have many tools that can help you become far more effective and efficient.

It is essential to realise that your role is not to sell the CC. 

You are inviting people to join your team and use the CC’s tools, culture, and meetings.

The CC is there to help individuals build their own relationship-based networks.

Your network-building results will reflect how consistently you build your network.

It’s easy to become excited about a shiny new object. However, we all know that results come from taking a small amount of action every day.

You can devote as much or little time to network-building as you desire. The CC has no expectation of you in terms of your level of activity.

You can choose to immerse yourself in our positive environment and do very little else if you like.

However, it is essential to be aware that the primary purpose of the CC is to help our members build their team of team-building advocates and interact with others in the CC doing the same. That means we do talk a lot about network building rather than just networking.

We intend that you will reap a lot more than you sow. But if you sow nothing, you’ll reap nothing.

What's a good network-building goal?

Initially, we recommend building a team of 5 network-building partners. We call this Core-5.

After that, we encourage you to find people who also develop a team of 5. 

That means you would have 25 people in your team and be recognised as being Core-20.

We talk a lot about duplication. That simply means introducing enough people to find some who follow your example and (with your help) participate in building their networks rather than just networking with others who are already part of the CC.

You could achieve Core-5 by introducing people that you already know, like & trust.

However, if you need to build your entire team of 5 by reaching out on LinkedIn, it is not a mountain to scale. Using LinkedIn alone, you can easily achieve Core-5 in 1 or 2 months.

Our experience tells us that 200 relevant invitations to connect on LinkedIn will result in you on boarding 5 people you will enjoy having as part of your team.

What do we mean by relevant connection requests?

Glad you asked!

First, we recommend that you have words to the following effect at the top of the “about” section of your LinkedIn profile:

Although we may not be able to do business together directly, it is highly likely that I will know others that will be good connections for you. I'm always happy to help others who also have a pay-it-forward attitude.

This lets those viewing your profile know that the main value of knowing you is the people you can connect them with that may help them. The value in knowing you is not what you can personally provide. In other words, you don’t expect to transact with them directly.

Of course, they will also likely know people that they can advocate you to once trust has been established.

Second, in your invitation to connect on LinkedIn, you mention something you genuinely liked on their profile, such as:

It's great to see we both believe in making a difference in partnership with others. 

You then always send your version of the following:

If (like me) you believe in connecting beyond LinkedIn, let's connect with a view to meeting face-to-face on Zoom (or equivalent).

When you follow this process, like-minded people will connect with you on LinkedIn and agree to a short meeting on Zoom because it's clear that you are there to build trust with them before expecting anything back.

In other words, you see enough alignment on their profile that you are prepared to invest 15-20 minutes of your time meeting them face-to-face and potentially helping them meet some relevant connections in your vast network. As your network and the network of others in the CC expands, the number of connections you can make for others becomes enormous.

It’s vital that you realise that you have the potential to significantly help those that you reach out to through your connections. Also, it is not your intention to sell them anything.

As a result, you should feel great about reaching out to others. And if you choose carefully, those people should be grateful that you are offering to help them.

This process rapidly builds trust with others that become part of your team, and they will be keen to reciprocate and help you.

So, how long would it take to achieve Core-5 if all of your connections came through LinkedIn?

If you reached out to 10 people a day on LinkedIn, it would only take you 20 days to send 200 connection requests.

If you sent 5 per day, it would still only take roughly 2 months.

Consistency is the key. In other words, you are doing a small number of activities, such as sending connection requests every day.

The primary purpose of the CC is to help you.

• Build a team of
• Team-building
• Advocates

The larger your team, the larger the number of people advocating for you.

The reason advocating networks work so well is that anyone can promote anyone except themselves.

We all know how ineffective and uncomfortable it is to try to sell ourselves.

On the other hand, we all know how effective it is to advocate for someone we trust to someone we believe will benefit from being connected with them.

We also know that opportunities come attached to people within organisations rather than the organisations themselves.

The main reason we want to help you build a team of team building advocates is so that you have a greater opportunity to achieve your End goals as well as your means goals.

For example, your End Goals may include a desire to develop increased sustainable income with less effort so that you can create more memories, relationships and experiences with your family and closest friends and make a greater difference in the lives of others.

Ideas are abundant. Especially technology-related ideas.

However, the networks that can make those ideas succeed are not in abundance.

As Tim Ferris (the author of the 4-hour workweek) said

It is my opinion that if you choose one event properly and you build a network there in the right way, in a methodical way that really focuses on long-term mutual relationships, as opposed to transactions ... you will never have to network again, ever.

Once you set that ball in motion, it’s like a snowball going down a hill and before you know it, you have this unstoppable Goliath of inertia that can carry you forward for years and, in fact, decades.

In general, such a network is an essential part of the success of most endeavours. As such, we believe it makes sense to consider network building as the “beast that feeds all other beasts”. Hence, our motto is: network first, ideas second.

However, you will need to invest a consistent effort in building your network to reap the rewards.

Workshop number 2 is devoted entirely to exploring the value of building your network.

We believe that building your network is no longer an optional extra.

In other words, it’s wise to accept that network-building is worthwhile sticking with.

So we suggest you enjoy the journey. 

• Have fun
• Decide to be as effective, results-oriented and efficient as possible.

The first topic in this workshop covers some valuable hints and tips that will help you get started.

All our meetings are conducted over Zoom with people from all parts of the world.

Zoom is rapidly becoming the new face-to-face, and as with any meeting, attention is the currency of relationship.

In other words, be present - multi-tasking & Zoom simply don’t mix!. Those you are interacting with know when you are only half present.

By all means, be relaxed, take notes and deal with the kids and other distractions. Everyone understands that. What doesn’t work is focusing on other projects and pretending you are paying attention.

Another great key to success is taking advantage of weekly onboarding sessions with your Connector. 

Although you may not initially realise it, your best chance of meeting relevant others in the CC is through your Connector.

During your onboarding sessions, your Connector will not only help you learn the system, but they will also build trust with you so that they can easily advocate you to others in their team and the wider CC.

It is vital to set up weekly meetings with your Connector to help you work through our Syllabus and, in the process, get to know you better.

Our workshops are designed to help you amplify what you learn as you progress through the Syllabus with your Connector.

Our Workshops have 2 formats.

In the first workshop of the month, we split everyone into small random groups to meet others in the CC and find out how to best advocate for one another.

For all workshops apart from the first of the month, you choose the workshop you want to attend.

Start with workshop number 1, and each week progress to the next workshop until you reach Workshop number 5.

Here is a brief overview of workshops 1 to 5.

• Workshop 1 is Welcome and Orientation
• Workshop 2 is simply titled “Why”. This workshop helps you better understand the value of building your network. Don’t skip this one. It’s pretty eye-opening, and you must know what your new team members will learn when they attend this workshop.
• Workshop 3 helps you think about who you know that may be interested in building their relationship based network as part of your team, using the CC system.
• Workshop 4 explains the process we have developed to help you quickly find great network-building partners.
• Workshop 5 explains how to find great network-building candidates on LinkedIn using the MyMostTrusted Chrome extension.

Once you have completed Workshop 5, we have Workshops 5a & 5b designed to help you overcome any obstacles and become more efficient and effective with the process.

Workshop 5a is appropriately named “Help”, and Workshop 5b is called “Let’s Play”.

You can hang around workshops 5a & 5b as much as you like to learn how to get better results and interact with others to learn great hints and tips or simply resolve any problems you may have.

Workshop 6 addresses one of the biggest challenges that most people face - becoming consistent. Yet, intuitively most people realise this is one of the biggest barriers to achieving the success they desire. 

Experiencing workshop six may help you or your team members become more consistent in network building as well as other activities that are important to them.

Workshop 7 is about onboarding new members into your team. There is a lot to cover, so we have broken this workshop into 4 sessions. Each week, the facilitator of this session will give a quick overview of the process and then focus on one of the sessions. The focus session for the week will be included in the name of this Zoom breakout session—for example, W07 dash Session 1.

Workshop 8 is designed to help you improve your team building and leadership skills. Again there is a lot to cover, so this workshop has 4 sessions. Each week the focus will be on a different session.

Most people struggle with how best to invest their time. 

Workshop 9 helps you work out how best to allocate the time you have set aside to build your network.

We all want to figure out how to be most productive. Workshop 10 covers tools and tips that will help you become more productive. This is invaluable. Just imagine if what you (or your team members) learned in this one workshop saved you time in all your other endeavours. It’s possible that this could save you more time than the entire time you invest in network-building.

Workshop 11 is called Professional and Personal Development.

This is one of our most popular workshops. 

Each week we have an expert in their field delivering inspiring information and hints and tips that will help you in a wide variety of areas.