The document outlines the structure for a networking event, detailing the steps participants should take to engage with each other effectively. Key activities include creating business cards, engaging in introductions, and exchanging contact information through a structured rotation process. Additionally, there are reminders about the importance of opportunities and preparation, with activities designed to foster connections among participants.

1. Networking?
GEC March 15th

2. Congratulations! You made it here!
Now... To keep your success record intact...
1. Find a chair with a cap on it
2. Put the cap on (only one please)
3. Get comfortable on the chair
4. Take the 3 envelopes and do not lose them
5. Give numbers 1,2 and 3 to the envelopes
6. Do something with your phone until you have a neigbour
7. While other people join us, find out who your neighbour is...
8. Ask him/her:
„Why did you choose this session?“
„What is the best advise you ever received and who gave it to you?

3. Welcome!
„Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity“
Seneca -Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) -

4. What is the main Challenge?
Right Here?
Right Now?

5. YOU!

6. Psychology of entrepreneurs:
• Independent,
• low compliance,
• wide attention span,
• opportunity driven,
• low tolerance to frustration
• Stubborn/determined

7. Scope: to maximize opportunities…
The right mindset: be generous to receive more
Expand: Connect the dots to a 2nd degree
Support the System to Increase Performance

8. Assisting Technologies

9. Assisting Technologies
Team Coordinators
• To increase overall efficiency
• To guide the teams
• To monitor time and speed
• To allow everybody to contribute
• To clarify questions
• To participate

10. Assisting Technologies

11. Assisting Technologies
Envelopes:
E1) To follow up immediately (Urgent and Important)
E2) Exploration –Mid term
E3) Good to know, keep on my radar

12. Phase 1
Join your Team
Coordinator at
your Station
Instructions
given in
1 minute

13. Getting ready...
Using an A4 Paper and the colored Markers make a
Creative Business Card to introduce yourself to others
Elements:
1. Your Name
2. What your company does
3. What you are looking for (be specific please)
4. What you can offer
Time: 2 Minutes!

14. Round 1
NOW: Using your new Business Card,
Introduce yourself to your Team in 1 Minute!
While others speak:
1) Think about what you can offer
and request from them
2) Write that on your „normal“
Business card /Post It
3) When everybody finished introducing themselves,
exchange cards with them! (Remember the 3 envelopes)

15. Phase 1
Last Step:
Make your station interesting + welcoming
for visitors in 3 minutes!

16. Round 2
Wall A „Visits Wall B „Hosts“
Pure White Visits Green Yellow
Pure Red Visits White Black
Pure Blue Visits Red Pink
Pure Pink Visits Blue Green
Pure Green Visits Pink Purple
Hosting Team welcomes and
starts with Individual Intros (6 Min)
Visiting Team follows (6 Min)
Card Exchange process (6 Min)

17. Disruption!
Visiting teams go back to your
home stations! Get ready to host!

18. Round 3
Wall B „Visits Wall A „Hosts“
White Black Visits Pure White
Red Pink Visits Pure Red
Blue Green Visits Pure Blue
Pink Purple Visits Pure Pink
Green Yellow Visits Pure Green
Hosting Team welcomes and
starts with Individual Intros (6 Min)
Visiting Team follows (6 Min)
Card Exchange process (6 Min)

19. Rotation in 2 minutes!!

20. Round 4
Wall B „Visits Wall A „Hosts“
Red Pink Visits Pure White
Blue Green Visits Pure Red
Pink Purple Visits Pure Blue
Green Yellow Visits Pure Pink
White Black Visits Pure Green
Hosting Team welcomes and
starts with Individual Intros (6 Min)
Visiting Team follows (6 Min)
Card Exchange process (6 Min)

21. Round 5
Wall B „Visits Wall A „Hosts“
Pink Purple Visits Pure White
Green Yellow Visits Pure Red
White Black Visits Pure Blue
Red Pink Visits Pure Pink
Blue Green Visits Pure Green
Hosting Team welcomes and
starts with Individual Intros (6 Min)
Visiting Team follows (6 Min)
Card Exchange process (6 Min)

22. Let us come back together
Please take a seat

23. Let us come back together
Connections made in 60 minutes today (Total 1440)

24. Before we close...
The stations in the back are organized by country where UNCTAD
has offices
If you desire to connect with any specific region please leave your
card next to the country and write what you need on the card
You will be contacted in the next 3 weeks by someone in the
region.

25. To close the loop...
„Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity“
Seneca -Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) -

28. Pre-delivery preparation
Material on stations
• A4 Papers, markers, a cap
hanging at station, scotch
tape, 2 flipchart papers
and post its
Materials on chairs
• 3 envelops per participant,
1 colored cap, paper block
and pen