If you work for a company that has lots of meetings with lots of different people and have the same trouble remembering names as I do, I have a great tip for you. Over at his blog, Gurno.com, Adam Gurno has posted a great tool for remembering those names. I used to use this at a previous job when I had meetings with people that I didn’t often interact with. It works really well and is very simple. Basically, the idea is to draw a rough map of the meeting area and map out where each person is sitting. This way you can have a mental image of which face was where and a hard copy of each name in each position to go with it. That way when you see one of your meeting participants again you have a better shot at remembering their name.
I used to employ this method my simply drawing the table and participants either at the top of my paper or in the margin. I would suggest being subtle about this and let everyone believe that you’re just really good with names and faces.
Adam expands on the basics of this method with some very good ideas, so it’s definitely worth checking out.
