Hate that feeling of walking into a large conference hall and seeing a sea of people you don’t know? Here are two strategies to help you to start networking.
I avoid business events and conferences like the plague. Indeed the only time you’ll see me at an event is if I happen to be speaking at it.
Like me , King dislikes entering a room full of strangers and having to strike up a conversation with someone she doesn’t know. But luckily, some of her research can help makeless stressful. “What we know from research is that people don’t form walls or oceans,” says King. For King, this means that when she looks at the islands of people, she looks for a group that has an odd number.“It might be three, five, seven,” King says. “It doesn’t really matter. If there’s an odd number of people, then there’s someone who really isn’t a part of the conversation and they are likely looking for a conversational partner.
Another strategy to try if events are still feeling intimidating comes from Jerry Dischler, the vice-president of product management at Google, where he leads the ads team. When Dischler attended his first TED conference in 2019, he was looking for strategies to make meeting 2000 strangers less intimidating. He also wanted to get the most out of being surrounded by a large number of fascinating, over-achieving strangers.
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