Three ways a Contact Management system can impact your relationship building and networking:
- Using a CMS you can plan who you should network with more effectively.
- Follow up with those you have spoken with more efficiently.
- Lay a solid foundation to continue your networking activity so you can make sure any future job transitions can go as smoothly as possible.
Importance of a CMS:
- You have a single private place to put all of the information you learn, about each of your work or personal contacts.
- This is your information and you control it no matter what career changes you make
- When you can tag and index your contacts by association, affiliation, and interest your data is sitting in an actionable state so you can quickly and easily interact with individuals or groups. Something not easily possible using a spreadsheet.
Remember Professionals use tools such as address books, calendars, mobile phones, and email because they help us with our productivity. A contact management system is just another one of those necessary tools!
Here is a list of PRISM features you will want to be familiar with:
- Adding contacts manually
- Organize your Contacts – Tag your contacts so you can filter them into lists/groups.
- Following a designed relationship building process
- Ability to Import your contacts – From many sources where you have lists of friends/relationships.
- Notes Section – Ability to add details about them.
- Structured Networking Process – helps you to identify the next steps you should take with this contact to continue to build a genuine and authentic relationship.
- Set follow ups – remind you about special events such as birthdays, anniversaries or other events special to them. This is one way to create genuine friendships.
- Track Activity in Building Relationships – Such a tool helps you to hold yourself accountable to the activity goals you set.
