As a speaker, one of the things that makes me take a REALLY deep breath is looking out into an audience and seeing a sea of glazed eyes. I’ve seen it before and it just makes you want to pull a quilt over your head and slither away. At that moment, you just KNOW that…
Whenever I give a talk on networking or relationship-building, one of the questions I’m inevitably asked is, “Robert, how do I get out of a conversation that I’m no longer interested in?”