Few people enjoy networking, but working the room graciously is an art that can be learned via IrishTimesBiz
First up, the elite schmoozer is likely to be clever and innately outgoing, though these qualities alone do not explain their success
First up, the elite schmoozer is likely to be clever and innately outgoing, though these qualities alone do not explain their success. If this seems calculating it’s because it is. But it makes it less likely you will do what I once did at a business event where I asked a man I’d just met what he did at the moderately large company he told me he worked at. “Chief executive,” he replied.
Among the worst are the self-absorbed blowhards who use every conversational gap as a springboard to drone on about themselves in a way that is, as RoAne says, “not only obvious but also mildly offensive”. These people are best dodged, which leads to one of the most vexing room-working matters — knowing how to politely extricate oneself from a conversation without causing offence.
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