Assignment 1 – Networking in Person DESCRIPTION: To help you carefully reflect o
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Assignment 1 – Networking in Person
DESCRIPTION: To help you carefully reflect on your experiences networking in a new cultural context, you must submit a short paper in which you describe your experiences in approaching a new contact (e.g. a neighbor, fellow student, bus driver, security guard, etc.). More details will be provided in class.
Paragraph1 – Set the scene
Where were you? What was happening? Who did you approach? Why did you approach them? How did you approach them?
Paragraph2 – Describe the discussion
What did you say? What did you talk about? Who controlled the conversation?
Paragraph3 – Examine the experience
Reflect on the encounter – how did you feel before, during and after? Did you notice any unique behavior or non-verbal communication? Did you notice and cultural differences in how you interacted with each other?
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Your paper must be a 300-word (maximum)
Explanation / Answer
NETWORKING IN PERSON
So I had an interaction with a security guard in my locality, I was walking by down the lane when I met this security guard, he was going back to his home with his children with some vegetable he would have bought for making the meal, I recognised him that he was the security guard of the locality was living in. I went closer to him and told him that his children are really beautiful, he was a bit awkward looking at me approaching towards him but when I started the conversation with a compliment he was a bit relaxed.
I told him that I lived in the locality where he was the security guard and told him that I notice that he does his work with loyalty and how I see him waking up and guarding us ( as I come late home sometimes) He was happy hearing all this, I then asked him how old are his children, to which he told me that the younger one is in 3rd grade and elder one in 5th grade. One of them wanted to become a doctor and the other one a pilot. His job gave him the living, During the coversation it was me who was asking frequent questions and the guard was mostly answering them with a smile.
The experience of randomly talking to a stranger and getting to know so many things about him is amazing, I experienced that complimenting and your body language matters a lot in making the other person comfortable in talking to you or not, It felt a bit awkward in the starting but went smoothly when he replied to my questions as happily as I was asking. There were some differences as how we both interacted with each other, I was not much hesitant in talking or approaching him but he was a bit careful in sharing his information to me in the starting he was not much willing to talk to me but because of me insisting and asking questions he then began to answer ( maybe due to the loads of compliments I gave him )