CAVE: Assessing Your Progress

Review & Share What have we been talking about with regards to social networking? What are some of the most useful tools you’ve learned? Who have you added to your network? What examples have you seen in our presentations and site visits of good networking and MKOs?

Checking In Take out a piece of paper and write answers to the following questions (don’t need to include your name): How are things going? What have you liked and disliked so far? Where are you doing well? What are you struggling with? What information or support do you want to help you with these lessons? Share.

Celebrate Analyze Vision Execute CAVE Introduction Celebrate Analyze Vision Execute

Celebrate Celebrate When you take a risk, stretch yourself- celebrate! Builds neurons in your brain and you develop yourself. Sometimes celebrating: Is easy—your risk pays off. Can be more difficult- your risk didn’t go as you wanted. Mistakes are critical for growth and long term success. What are ways to celebrate?

Analyze Analyze What went well about what you did? What you could have done better. To grow, you got to find things to get better at. Get away from drama and stinking thinking! Ask an MKO to help you think through the situation.

Vision Vision When you vision, think about: the bigger “Why?” behind what you are working on. How will this situation further your vision of yourself and the skills you are developing? Visualize that person in your head. What do you look like when you’ve integrated the skill you are working on.

Execute Execute Pick a time in the next 24 hours to build that skill a little more. It should be something small and doable.

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Break Down Example Let’s say this person is wanting to develop their rapport building skills. What did Peter do that deserves celebration? What did he do well? What could he do to improve? If Peter was your friend, what would you want for him? What could be Peter’s vision for networking in the future? What could Peter do in the next 24 hours to try building rapport skills again?

Team Activity Get into your Team. Pick an example of something that you’ve done for the assignment/homework. It can be around: Introductions Building your network Making a good first impression, Finding MKOs. Use the CAVE process to assess what happened.

Homework assignment Pick a buddy on your team. Share an example of a risk you took this past week. Meeting someone new Asking someone to be an MKO for you. Telling a truth to someone that you’ve be afraid to say. Others Use the CAVE to assess what happened. Have your buddy write down your CAVE assessment as you go. Buddies can generate additional thoughts about the assessment too.