Becoming a Gay Adult

These team meetings that help set goals and priorities for the year ahead can be overwhelming. There's tons of networking to do, lots to learn and digest, and the pace can be maddening. A few tips: 1. Set a clear intention for the offsite. Maybe there's an initiative whose sponsor you want to corner and quiz. Or, you might have a personal goal to stretch into asking a question in the general session, or alternatively to hang back more and listen. Maybe set one personal and one work goal. 2. Pace yourself. Note how much you can reasonably do and still be crisp and present for all you choose to do. If you're nodding off while the leader's reviewing key points, that extra social time or round of golf might have pushed you too far. 3. Follow up afterwards with all your new contacts. Find organic ways to reach out to all your new contacts within a week or so. Keep the connection fresh (they met lots of people too.) You never know when those connections might be valua