Creating and Maintaining an Actively Involved Business and Industry Leadership Team

This 2-page document from the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) outlines the steps to creating an actively engaged business team to provide leadership to recent technology and engineering graduates. This resource provides guidance on the following eight steps:

1. Determine which businesses, industries, agencies, non-profits and universities should be represented.
2. Determine what you want to get from the Business and Industry Leadership Team (BILT) and develop your "sales" script.
3. Find and retain appropriate business and university partners by starting with the President.
4. Conduct initial BILT meeting.
5. BllT recognition
6. Reporting
7. Keeping the BILT fresh.
8. Benefits from following this approach.