Technology helping us poor networkers

Many of you will be engaged in such meet and greet activities regularly, which can be tedious and time consuming; Gently probing your new acquaintance over a vol-au-vent and a warm glass of wine in an effort to ascertain if they can be useful in your business life. Naturally, you will get a lot more leverage from your business networking efforts if you work on building relationships with the right people who could become clients or business partners in some way. However, not all of us are effective networkers. Small talk is a skill in itself – and that’s before you weigh-up how useful one...