How to Approve New LinkedIn Group Members

4 of 4 in Series: The Essentials of Creating a LinkedIn Group

As members start joining your LinkedIn group, some of the people who have clicked the link to join aren’t on your pre-approved list. You need to go into LinkedIn and approve or reject people’s membership requests so they can be members (or non-members) of your LinkedIn group.

When you need to do that, just follow these steps.

From the left navigation menu, click the Groups link to bring up your list of My Groups.

You see the My Groups page.

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Scroll down until you see the name and logo of the group you are maintaining, as shown here.

This is the page that lets you manage your groups.

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Click the Manage link below the name of your group to bring up the Current Members page. From the right pane, click the link Requests to Join.

This step brings up the list of people who are waiting to be approved for your group.

To accept people, first select the check box next to each person you want to approve to join your LinkedIn group. Then click the Approve button.

You can approve people individually or all at once if you want. You can always select the person’s name on the list to read his LinkedIn profile and decide whether he belongs in the group or send him a message through his profile.

To refuse membership, first select the check box next to each person you want to decline membership to the group, and then click the Decline button.

Similar to the approval process, you can decline people one at a time, or all at once. In either case (approval or decline) the user’s name disappears from the Request to Join page.