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Ask An Ambassador: Reading The Room
I'll confess, as an engineer I'm not the most adept at picking up on subtle social signals...and sometimes even blatant social signals :)
It's part of the challenge for me when walking in to do a listing presentation or meeting with a buyer.  I'm an introvert (and then some), so I'm looking for the commonalities between me and the potential client.
Have we lived in the same area?  Maybe we've both served in the military?  They have dogs?  Cats?  Travel?  Somewhere there's SOMETHING we can use to establish common ground.
When I'm in a crowd of strangers, I make a few assumptions.
Some of them may be future clients.
Some of them may have serious clout.
Some of them may be jerks.
Some of them may be the greatest people on earth.
The thing is you don't know any of this when you start, and sooner you figure out who the power players are, the better off you're going to be.
This applies in person, or in the virtual world.
Joined a new Facebook group?  You may not know who's who in the zoo at first, but in time you learn who to rely on and who has brown eyes because they're at max capacity for brown stuff.
And the same applies ... more

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