There's a trick to getting someone to volunteer their name first.
Asking for a reminder doesn't have to be a big deal if you are gracious and sincerely apologetic.
“That is a signal for you to say your name back,” Abbajay said. But don’t think you are being sly about your strategy. Many people will recognize that it means you don’t know their name, she said.One other indirect approach is to discreetly ask someone else to tell you the other person’s name, Abbajay added.
“The biggest mistake is to be overly apologetic like there is something wrong with you,” Neo said. “Being gracious and pleasant about it can be useful.” Research has shown that writing things down helps our brains really retain what is being said. A 2014
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