Body Language And Facial Expressions In Business: How To Mingle Like A Pro

Mingling like the pros!
Mingling (“BigOmaha11_12827.jpg” by Big Omaha/Malone & Company. Shared under CC BY license).

You can’t mingle like a pro if you make any of these 10 mistakes that Farnoosh highlights on her podcast:

Podcast: Prolific Living Media: The Daily Interaction
Episode: Episode 64: How to Mingle Like a Pro

Find out more about the podcast at: http://www.pocketcasts.com/share/xqSDJR

What mistakes have you made in your earlier days, or still make today?

I often forget to work the room after I hook up with the first round of people who I click with. On the brighter side, I can definitely vouch for the amazing effect that maintaining a good posture has on mingling and creating new relationships and friendships.

The most effective of all 10 tips in this podcast episode (and the easiest one to achieve IMO) is radiating a welcoming and open body language. Julie always laughs about my tendency of striking heart to heart conversations with strangers wherever we go – whether it’s a trip on the train or a transatlantic flight to the USA, openness and genuine enthusiasm are THE REAL secret sauce for making strangers into friends.

What’s your secret sauce?

Learn To Accept Your Own Mistakes

your own mistakesBeautiful piece by Jason Fried. What a terrific point of view to adapt both for your own mistakes, and for those made by people around you.

No matter how much different would 2012 have looked like if you’d had this ability (reflect, don’t obsess), make a mental note for yourself to apply this to at least one of your quests in the coming year.

A mistake is a moment in time by Jason Fried of 37signals

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3347-a-mistake-is-a-moment-in-time

He said the Navajo saw mistakes as moments in time. And since you can’t change time, why try to change a mistake that already happened?

The mistake is already woven into the fabric of time. It’s good to be reminded of it when you look back.

Further, he compared it to climbing a mountain. If you climb a mountain you are sure to have a few missteps along the way. But you keep going. You don’t stop and start over if you trip here or take the wrong path there. You keep going. You can’t remove that step. It happened, it’s part of the climb. And when the climb is done, you’ve finished. As long as you made it to the top, you don’t call the climb a mistake. Likewise, the Navajo don’t call a rug with some off stiches a mistake. If the rug is finished, it’s a successful rug. More importantly, a rug with a few off stitches is an honest rug.

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Don’t Screw Your Customers

importance of customer service

MyThoughts for mac (mind mapping software) – Scam

Wow, this annoyed me! I’ve been trying out MyThoughts for mac (mind mapping software) for a week or so. It’s pretty good and has an option to export files to iThoughts, which is what I use on my iPad. I decided to upgrade from the two weeks trial and paid them the $50 – which is NOT cheap for a mindmapping software.

It came as a big surprise that the FULL version, does NOT have the option of exporting to other file formats. So I sent their support a request for a refund. I have nothing to do with a program that cannot share formats with my iPad.

Their reply just arrived, telling me that they “never have supported such functionality” and thus, deemed my request as solved (and rejected my request for a refund).This amazes me for a company that sells via the Apple store, as my next action will be forwarding the entire correspondence to Apple Mac Store team.How can a company that wants to be in business tell their customers that they’re idiots?

Who is Your Worst Enemy?

 

If you are stuck in a rut, today is the day to pull yourself out.

Help is not on its way.

It’s already arrived and all you have to do is to accept it. You have everything within you to dig out. You may need a good coach, friend, or counselor to help you identify the tools, but until you accept that you are your answer, life will continue to serve up failure while you think everyone else is getting a double serving of success.

Make today a great day!

Who is Your Worst Enemy? (via Mr. Reader)

Stop this self sabotage today, or it will keep failing you tomorrow.