In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn strategies to help remember your students names.
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If you’re like me and millions of people around the world, you hate the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing someone’s name. It happens all the time and as I age it seems to actually be happening more. But I learned a long time ago that it’s not proper to dismiss this and say “oh I’m horrible with peoples’ names.” When you tell that to someone, they understand the challenge themselves, but some names and people are more important than others. We tend to remember those names. So, subconsciously when you say that to people they actually think you don’t care enough about them to remember their name. This goes from being a legitimate excuse to driving a wedge in connecting with people.
And if you repeat this, you will never get better at it. In fact, according to researchers at the University of Florida, there are numerous legitimate reasons why most people have a hard time recalling peoples names. But, if you can tap into techniques that help you remember peoples names you will have a better time of relationship building and connecting with others. And one of the top groups we need to make an immediate connection with is our students and our customers. As leadership guru Dale Carnegie said, “A person’s name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language.” So in today’s episode we’re going to get into strategies that help you remember your students’ names.
Also, I want to give a shoutout to Ted Harty with Immersion Freediving, he is putting on the first ever Freediving Summit. You heard him talk about it in last week’s episode. This is where 29 of the worlds best in freediving were assembled for individual interviews if you are into freediving at all, or are even remotely interested in the sport, you’ve got to check it out. Simply access the Freediving Summit by going to the Freediving Summit link on our show notes page for this episode over at ScubaGuru.com.
Items In This Episode
- Verbal and mental repeat
- Use mnemonic devices
- Use name props
- Try seating charts
- Use photos
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