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A guide for members A guide for members

How to turn association membership into a professional network that helps you.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

Which ties help

Which ties help depends on your field

In digital sectors weaker ties helped job moves most, in others stronger ties did.

20 million People in LinkedIn experiments: weak ties mattered most in digital sectors, strong ties in less digital ones Rajkumar et al., Science, 2022

Volunteer roles

Volunteer where you meet people often

Roles with regular contact build ties faster than one-off events.

  • Event committee monthly meetings
  • Peer reviewing work seen by seniors
  • A branch role local and regular
  • Welcoming newcomers you meet everyone

A plan for each event

Plan each event in three steps

Choose three people before, then follow up within 48 hours.

  • Before pick three people
  • At the event one good question each
  • Within 48 hours follow up on what you discussed

A peer trio

Form a trio with peers

Two members at your stage, meeting monthly, keep each other moving.

  • Same stage similar questions
  • Once a month one hour
  • One case each twenty minutes

Old colleagues

Reconnect with former colleagues

Contacts out of touch for years still give advice as valuable as current ones.

3+ years Out of touch, and dormant ties still gave advice as valuable as current ties Levin, Walter & Murnighan, Organization Science, 2011

Doing it on Mentornity

Show up on Mentornity

Events, invites and messages help you meet and keep in touch.

Register for events

If the places run out, join the waitlist.

Get the calendar invite

It arrives once you are registered.

Message members

Your program sets who can message whom.

Turn on browser push

New meetings and messages reach you at once.

Register for events

If the places run out, join the waitlist.

Get the calendar invite

It arrives once you are registered.

Message members

Your program sets who can message whom.

Turn on browser push

New meetings and messages reach you at once.

Pick your three for the next event

Write three names before you go and one question for each.

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