Walking into a room full of strangers and coming away with new friends, good contacts, and leads to opportunities takes learned skills and practical methods. These can be acquired by even the shyest of people to enable them to feel comfortable mingling while outgoing types can perfect and polish their abilities to make contacts.

The topics covered in this webinar include:

Techniques to prepare and pave the way in advance 

Setting up a buddy system to help with introductions to strangers

What to do with business cards, theirs and yours

How to gracefully exit one conversation and join another

Handshakes, greetings, small talk and food

Timing: when to arrive and when to leave

Presenter: Patti Wilson - Patti provides expert advice and coaching to executives and professionals from Fortune 500 to startups in marketing, finance, high-tech, sales, bio-tech, consumer products, Internet, retail and media-entertainment. She was in employment management and recruiting at SUN, AMD and Apple, as well as assistant director of Career Services for Santa Clara University.