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Tips for lunch or after office drink

Everyone is learning from while meeting…
When you meet someone at the first time, you may feel very nervous. It's understandable. Lunch meeting allow you an hour to understand people, don't worry, it's absolutely relax and easy.

It's a good way to choose a desire place for having lunch with your partner together. Besides, because you are both working in the same area, you can start your conversation by sharing the related topic, such as working place.

If you do feel interest and happy with the meeting partner, please remember not to ask something may annoy him/her, such as relating to his/her privacy. You can ask for his/her hobby or interest, working life and something interesting.

Your smile will be the most attractive weapon to gain his/her attention, it makes you friendly, and made others feel you are nice. It's necessary to maintain a friendly eye contact.

A friendly eye contact is very important. People may think you do not respect them if you always look around but not them. You should pay attention to this.

What can be done if you do not like him/her?
During the meeting, if you find he/she not interested, why not keep one more friend, you take no risk of widening your social network. Therefore, please be nice and have a positive attitude towards other. You may find his/her attractive in the future.

Punctuate and tidy dressing
Arrive there 5 minutes before, this enables you to relax yourself and adapt to the environment, it benefits you from having an ideal performance. Remember to dress up tidily, avoid choosing some clothes which may make you feel uncomfortable. These help you to build a positive first impression.

Avoid drinking too much alcohol before the meeting, you can drink some hot tea, soft drink or juice to refresh your mind.

You can proactively raise some sharing topics, such as working life, habit and interest, to start your conversation and enhance understanding between you two.

We do not suggest you to talk too much or keep silence. Giving an appropriate response can help to enhance your communication. Remember to be a good listener, be concentrate.

Since we haven't known each other for long, it would better not to share your own privacy things.

Understand each other by building up a friendship.