Knowledge Sharing: How to make small talk with strangers and a link to the Drinking Etiquette
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About the event
At every academic environment and also workplace, you may have or will encounter small talk with new people, either in formal situations or informal ones. Small talk can create a huge impression on your first meeting with strangers, who might be your business partners, new teammates, or someone to soon enter your social circle. Therefore, it is important that you know how to initiate a short conversation with them, especially when you are in a business meeting or a formal business dinner and there requires ice breaking talks. From this communication skill, the drinking etiquette is also linked as when you apply small talk with strangers at a business dinner, they may notice it and make observations. It is also helpful to know the drinking rules of different cultures on a formal business dining table in case your business partners come from a different background. By joining this knowledge session, we will first introduce you to how to make small talk effectively, and then equip you with the necessary drinking etiquette that will later come in handy for your business cases.
Speakers
Thao Nguyen Intern
Ha NguyenIntern
Jessica ChauIntern