How to Work a Room, Revised Edition: Your Essential Guide to Savvy Socializing

This is the fully revised and updated edition of the ground–breaking self–help book on improving communicating and socializing skills in business and life. How To Work A Room lays down the fundamentals for savvy socializing, whether at a party, a conference, or even communicating online. RoAne clearly shows how to overcome the five roadblocks that keep most people from making new contacts; mix chutzpah and charm to start and end conversations smoothly; know when to use humor––and when not to; and follow simple rules of etiquette. Incorporating years of feedback from hundreds of presentations, as well as anecdotes from around the globe, RoAne keeps How To Work A Room fresh and on target. New chapters include: strategies starting, maintaining, and exiting conservations; and advice on commutating effectively in today's tech driven world.

Whether you have to attend a business or social event, this fully revised and updated edition of the bestseller How to Work a Room by—The Mingling Maven^®, Susan RoAne provides the tools and techniques for savvy socializing in all situations, whether at a meeting, a party, a conference, or even online. She provides practical remedies for the roadblocks that prevent us from meeting new people, developing new contacts, and establishing connections that build personal and professional relationships. Susan shares over 100 strategies you can use in any room.

You'll learn how to prepare for any event, how to mix chutzpah with charm to start and end conversations smoothly and when and how to use humor. You'll find techniques to build small talk into memorable conversation, how to remember names—and what to do if you forget—and how to follow the common sense do's and don'ts in all rooms of life—including those that are virtual or require the aid of the latest tech gadget. Incorporating a decade of feedback from hundreds of presentations as well as anecdotes from around the globe, How to Work a Room is a book that will change your life.

Susan RoAne is a bestselling author, an in-demand keynote speaker, and a communications coach. She has shared her strategies with audiences in corporate, convention, and university America as well as on radio and television around the world. Susan has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times of London, msn.com, and businessweek.com. She is the author of four books, including The Secrets of Savvy Networking, What Do I Say Next? and How To Create Your Own Luck. Susan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.