Effective Networking for Meaningful Collaborations

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Effective Networking for Meaningful Collaborations

• Jackie Tanaka and Rosita Rodriguez

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Introductions

• The key to making connections
• Elevator pitch -
• Networking -

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Key Topics

• Networking problems/opportunities.
• Importance of networking.
• Encourage participation.
• Mentor Session/Lunch
• Elevator Pitch
• Working session to initiate research
  collaborations
• Forming a NETWORK of collaborators for life!

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Elevator Pitch

• Thought and practice.
• Easy-to-understand, yet succinct.
• Clarity, focus, and purposefulness
• Tailor to your audience.
• Show your passion.
• Listen to what they have to say.

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Networking
A lifetime discipline of networking might be
the single-most important investment youll ever
make in your own job security.
Joe Tye, 1997
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Networking Five Principles

• Principle 1 Relationships are a fundamental
  human need.
• Principle 2 People tend to do what is expected
  of them.
• Principle 3 People tend to associate with others
  like themselves.
• Principle 4 Repeated interaction encourages
  cooperation.
• Principle 5 Its a small world.

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Networking - The Power of Peers

• Mutual Understanding
• Mutual Benefit

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How can we close the Gap?

• Who? The NMRI of NIDDK
• How? Research collaborations to understand the
  problems
• Thinking outside the box to find effective
  solutions
• Taking advantage of the wisdom and
  experience of NMRI mentors
• When? We start today

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Goals for each net-WORK-ing group

• 1. Practice your elevator pitch. You have 60
  seconds!
• 2. Think about the most important aspect of the
  health
• disparity problem.
• 3. Identify others in your group whose skills
  will contribute to addressing the problem.
• 4. Work together in groups of 4 or less to
  outline the specific aims of a collaborative
  proposal.
• 5. Outline specific experiments that would serve
  as the basis of a publication and preliminary
  data for a collaborative proposal.
• 6 . Summarize your proposal for the entire
  group.