Meeting New People
The struggle is real, when it comes to branching out to meeting new people at the conference. Here are some tips that I applied to being able to make new friends.
- Be Friendly: Easier said than done. Try to have an open mind and good intentions with everyone you meet.
- Breakaway From Your Bubble: As difficult as it is, it is so important to be willing to break out of your shell and to try things out of your comfort zone. At conference it's easy to stick with the same people, give it a little of variety.
- Use Your Ears: It is bewildering to me how many students struggle with using their ears during a conversation. Be sure to listen and to show in your body language that they are the MOST IMPORTANT person in the room. NO glancing at your phone. NO talking over the other person. This is their chance to shine, be their audience.. they'll love you for it.
- Utilize Your Location & Take Advantage of Every Moment: Realize that if you are at a business conference.. take advantage of what you can't do online.. MEETING PEOPLE. Education is done online, but being able to network with a variety of people and to engage with them is entirely different.
I hope these small tips helped, I basically lived off of protein bars the entire conference because as Ariel from Little Mermaid would said, "I want to be where the people are."
1 comments:
Aw, I'm the first picture! It was so great meeting you IRL, Emily. Meeting online and getting to know one another, then meeting face-to-face is so efficient...we hugged like we'd know one another for years and immediately began "real talk" as we already had the background stuff out of the way. :)
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