What's up Explearners welcome back to my channel I'm so happy that you're here if
we're just meeting hello my name is Mary Daphne M.D. for short and welcome to
this channel let's get right into it in this video we are gonna talk about how
to start and end a conversation at a networking event so if you have some
networking events lined up then you're definitely going to want to tune in to
this video to learn about how to start and stop a conversation because you're
gonna meet a lot of people at a networking event and the reality is that
you don't have a ton of time to get into a full length conversation with every
single person especially if you want to maximise on meeting and connecting with
as many people as possible in a genuine and authentic way of course you don't
want to get stuck to any one person and talk with them for the entire time
because that would defeat the purpose of going to an event like this so how do
you get out of a conversation without seeming rude or impatient or
uninterested in the person alright so how do you start well introduce yourself
just plain and simply hello and then your name so hi my name is Marie Daphne
how are you hi I'm MD how's it going I don't want you to be stressed out by
this I don't want you to try to think oh well I have to be super creative and
clever and different and memorable when I'm introducing myself no that's not
where you're gonna be memorable you're gonna be memorable by how you engage
with the person let me just share with you one of my favorite quotes by Maya
Angelou people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but
people will never forget how you made them feel
this is a way of making yourself memorable because you can always be
careful about how you communicate and mindful about how you're gonna make
somebody feel and so that's the same idea with a networking event when you're
trying to make an impression upon somebody how do you start you can also
reference the networking event that you're at how do you like this event so
far something like that but the most important thing is just to
say hi how are you name and then this is the part that gets interesting
so you don't know this person you don't know what their interests are with their
likes are with their dislikes are so you need to try to figure that out in a
short period of time so what you do is start broaching different topics and
then look for a conversation starter or a social interaction spark because that
will allow you to pursue that topic and then get them interested in that topic
and then you're down the rabbit hole of a wonderful conversation the way you
tell if somebody is interested in that topic is by paying attention to their
nonverbal cues so they'll probably raise their eyebrows and everybody has a
different way of doing this if you have an expressive face and it's gonna be
pretty obvious when somebody goes like like that but if you don't then you're
gonna have to be a little bit more mindful of that spark in their face but
still you'll find a way of picking up on that cue oh okay
let's pursue this conversation topic so once you do that makes for great
conversation because people love chatting about topics of interest to
them and they're able to speak comfortably and confidently about a
topic that they enjoy so search for those social interaction sparks all
right so once you've had a great conversation with someone it's time to
move on to the next person because again the nature of a networking event is that
you connect with as many people as you can but of course you want to make sure
that you are having genuine and authentic conversations with people this
is a way that you can actually be memorable the person is able to tell if
you're being genuine and if you are being sincere and if you are really
invested in the conversation no matter how short right
so once you've had a conversation with the person it's time to wrap up but how
do you do that in a way that's going to be kind and respectful right you don't
want to be rude you would never want to say something like okay well we've you
know you look at your watch blatantly be like okay let's wrap up but but super
rude and and obviously it's not a great way of building rapport yes you're gonna
be memorable but not in the good way because people are gonna say wow that
person I chatted with at that networking event was super rude they were pulling
out their watch and making motions to exit the conversation so we don't want
to do that but this is what you do if you want to be strategic and pull it
okay so what you can do is make a future reference this is a great way of
alluding to the future and what you do is you shift the focus from the present
to the future so you can mention the upcoming weekend you can mention an
upcoming holiday or a vacation something that points to the future so that gets
them talking about what they're gonna do the future and then you say oh that
sounds great well I hope you enjoy and I'm looking forward to hearing more
about it okay so let's give an example what are your plans for this weekend and
they say I'll be sailing in a regatta and then you say oh well that sounds
great I hope you enjoy I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures on social
media or I'm looking forward to hearing about it the next time we chat right so
the next time we chat the next time I see you and that gives the queue to the
interlocutor the person with whom you're speaking that okay this person has made
motions to end the conversation that's my cue and I'm going to say goodbye but
it's not in a deliberately rude way it's in a careful way it's in a thoughtful
way so I want you to be mindful of that because when you build rapport with
people you want to continue and you want to maintain these types of friendships
and relationships and connection that's the idea behind going to an event where
you're meeting a ton of people for your business or your claim tell whatever it
is all right so the next time you're at a networking event I want you to keep
these tactics in mind for great ways of starting a conference
and then politely ending the conversation so that you can move on to
the other people in the room which is why you're there in the first place all
right Explearners that's it for this video I hope you
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