Work together for mutual benefit …
Just as people lose weight more effectively when they work out with a partner or earn higher grades if they study in groups, you will be much more successful if you team up. Get yourself a buddy or two — or more — and try these four steps to enhance your chances of success.

Ongoing support
The most obvious things a buddy can provide are accountability and motivation. Create a list of your goals and how you’re going to achieve them by a certain date, and when the time rolls around, check each other’s work, compare notes, and copy best practices. Then establish another deadline to set up a certain number of meetings with your target contacts each month. You will need this ongoing exchange of support, guidance and motivation to build relationships consistently and effectively throughout your life.

Sharing networks
My friend Lisa, who runs a hotel in Toronto, and I use this tactic all the time. We plan a series of dinner parties, one each month, and alternate the location between her hotel and my home. We each invite half the list, and we split the tab for each event. The result: not only do we introduce each other and our friends to entirely new groups of people, but we also save a bundle of money and headaches each time, because we’re working together.

Job hunting
This may seem counterintuitive, but job hunting can be easier and more effective in groups of two or more. When I advise business schoolstudents to join classmates who want to work in the same industry to do their job search, they look at me like I’m nuts. Their natural inclination is to do everything alone so their competition won’t benefit from their research or good fortune. This is obviously narrow-minded. Do they really think there’s only one or two investment banking jobs out there?

You and your buddies should work together. Split up the research work to save time and individual effort. Reach out to industry professionals you admire for group informational interviews. They’ll be more likely to spend time with you because in your group you will seem far more genuinely interested in learning about the work than begging for a job. And always look for ways to help each other. Maybe one company seems like a better fit for Lisa, while Joe prefers another. Point them in the right direction. Work together, and everyone wins.

Conference call ………..
Having a wingman never hurts when you go to conferences or other events. Share with each other your real reasons for attending the conference, whether it is to look for a new job, to fill your sales pipeline or maybe even to seek a romantic relationship. From scouting the attendees to endorsing each other to new people to running interference when necessary, you’ll love the benefits. You’ll be more confident than ever at these events if you go with a buddy.

Source: The Telegraph (Kolkata, India)