Additional time will be needed if you are going to discuss a community service activity. Networking helps us gain information, ideas, skills, and the capacity to accomplish goals. Most personal networks are informal and useful. They help people both give and receive help. You can enhance your networking skills in many different ways.
Contacts are the basis of a network.
It's important to develop a system for keeping track of your contacts and to review your list regularly. If time is short or it is difficult for group members to stand, Small Talk may be more appropriate than Balls of Yarn. Obtain two or more yarn balls of different colors. Have participants stand in a large circle, facing one another. The people with the yarn balls hold the end of the string and gently throw the balls across to someone else, calling out that person's name.