{"id":1318,"date":"2012-09-17T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T06:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-09-18T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T07:22:44","slug":"networking-the-first-3-seconds-when-entering-a-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/networking-the-first-3-seconds-when-entering-a-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Networking: The first 3 seconds when entering a room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prologue: This post may not connect to folks who are born networkers, aka extroverts. Meet an introvert, who talks less, then you&#8217;d know how difficult it is to break the ice, forget exchanging cards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember the days when I was a sissy in networking, utter failure. I would come back from events, meetings, gatherings with not much accomplished, maybe meeting an equally gullible 1-2 people.<\/p>\n<p>Then someone (Don&#8217;t remember who or maybe I read in a book) educated me about the 3-second rule when entering a gathering. The 3-second rule is simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Connect with someone in the first 3-seconds of entering a gathering or a crowd or a room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why the first 3-seconds are important?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s psychological. The more you delay making the first contact, the harder it becomes. The moment you overcome the first contact, more of them would follow easily.<\/p>\n<p>This rule has done wonders for me in networking even during the days when I was just thinking of starting up and tried penetrating into a room full of &#8220;been-there-done-it&#8221; folks.<\/p>\n<p>Pro Version: I use a slightly advanced version of this 3-second rule now-a-days. I call it a ridiculously named, &#8220;Deep-6-second&#8221; rule. Instead, of 3 seconds, I give 6-seconds and try to move as deep into the crowd as possible and make the contact as soon as the time expires. Why? Most people whom I wanna connect to are not near the door, but they are nearer to the center of the room.<\/p>\n<p>Networking and connecting with people is important and it&#8217;s an art you keep honing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prologue: This post may not connect to folks who are born networkers, aka extroverts. Meet an introvert, who talks less, then you&#8217;d know how difficult it is to break the ice, forget exchanging cards. I remember the days when I was a sissy in networking, utter failure. I would come back from events, meetings, gatherings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[151],"tags":[289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}