Stop, Collaborate & Listen

In this episode, Frankie Tortora and Steve Folland have a chat in response to a question from Emma Roberts, director at Social Qual.

Emma says:

“You know when you stumble upon someone fab, and your brain goes ‘ooh, collaboration potential’? 

Perhaps we meet on LinkedIn and then organise a cuppa or intro call. We chat, we laugh, we bond over work joys and woes... and then we part with that cheerful, 'let's collaborate soon' but then… often our busy lives take over. 

I'm on both sides of this — an instigator of these types of calls and also someone who people reach out to.    

So, I'm wondering...

How can we make these cuppa-time conversations transform into actual collabs? Or should we even bother with these sorts of meetings?

It feels like I need to be more strategic about which invites I accept and who I reach out to.  

The social side of me responds to new folk with a Pavlov-dog response of ‘let's arrange a call’ but I’m increasingly feeling a bit unsatisfied with that approach.  

Anyone else? How do I get more strategic about these calls without being a nob?”

 

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