The Thoughts And Ideas Of The Efficiency Coach

This is the second blog post in a series taken from my book ‘ Networking tips for busy female professionals’. Each week, we will take a tip from the book and publish it in a blog post.

You may recall a scene in ‘Bridget Jones’ when Bridget is at a business social event and trying to introduce people. Whilst Bridget doesn’t quite get the implementation just right, she has the right idea. When you introduce people, help start the connection between the people you are introducing by telling them a little bit about each other. If possible try and flatter them a little, and give the other person hooks to be able to quickly start a conversation. For example,

“Helen, can I introduce James. James has just been promoted to a director at Jones and Jones LLP, a top 100 accountancy firm. James was just telling me that Jones and Jones have picked up the audit work for an AIM listed company.”

And then to James…

“James, Helen is one of the up-and-coming stars of a local law firm, Simmons and Baker LLP”

Action points:

1. Next time you are at a business or social gathering, practise making introductions this way

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