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Be an active conference attendee

Be an active conference attendee

From the course: Relationship Building for Creative Leaders

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Be an active conference attendee

- Now that you're committed to attending that conference, let's go over some strategies that move you from a wallflower to an active participant and relationship builder extraordinaire. First, recognize your fears. Yes, attending a conference, especially without knowing anyone else may not be that easy but it's a fast way to build many new relationships all in a short amount of time. So it's a worthwhile exercise to embrace your fears and force yourself out of your comfort zone. It may help to know many others share your same fear of not knowing anyone else. By introducing yourself they often jump at the chance themselves to make a new connection as long as it's clearly not about new business and more about meeting new people. Often people whom are difficult to meet otherwise will make the time to meet at a conference or engage with you one-to-one. You're both in the same place at the same time unless everyone is a…

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