Some people are good at remembering names and understand how important that acknowledgement is. It makes people feel important and lets them know you are paying attention and that "nice to meet you" ...

In coaching hundreds of executives over the years, a few questions come up again and again. Recently the CEO of a large company in the Midwest noticed during a training that I greeted a new group, ...

When it comes to difficulty remembering things, names are at the top of the list. And the older we get, the harder it is to remember them. You might think that’s just the way it is, and nothing can be ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Most of us have experienced the anguish of forgetting someone’s name while they’re standing right in front of us. It’s like a mental game ...

We always introduce him as Jake,* International Man of Mystery, as if this was his job title. It was not. Jake is one of those tall, silent guys in a suit you see at conferences, cocktail parties, ...

Each semester, professors perform an unappreciated, if not unnoticed, feat of mental fortitude. Memorizing the names of up to 100 students a semester is no easy task, but for many professors, it’s one ...

When Michelle D. Miller leads faculty workshops, she often does what she calls a “party trick” that she uses on the first day of class with her students: learning everyone’s names. As professors have ...