Often, when working with people, you run the risk of facing a problem: you have to memorize a lot of names, and this does not work out right away and not for everyone. But you can still learn to memorize names and not confuse them.
Instructions
Step 1
When you first meet a person, when he introduces himself to you, repeat his name to yourself, preferably several times. Think about how the name is combined with the features of his appearance, the manner of speaking to himself, try to create a vivid image in your mind - this kind of individual associations will help to correlate the image of a person and his name and remember him better.
Step 2
Feel free to ask the name again when you first meet, if you are not sure that you heard it correctly. It is important to remember a person's name correctly, especially for complex, unusual names, surnames, patronymics. Otherwise, by distorting his name, you can unwittingly offend the person with whom you are communicating.
Step 3
At subsequent meetings, do not hesitate to clarify whether you have correctly remembered the name of the person with whom you are in dialogue. In the early stages of communication, you will most likely be forgiven for this slight forgetfulness. You and your interlocutor will feel much more uncomfortable if after a long time after meeting you suddenly make a mistake and call him wrong.
Step 4
Try as often as possible to call each person with whom you communicate by name - this will not only help you better remember what his name is, but also will dispose him to you, because it is believed that his own name is one of the most pleasant words that a person will never have. does not get tired of hearing in your address. Calling by name means for a person that he is distinguished from the “general mass”, he was remembered, and this is always pleasant.
Step 5
If your job involves a fairly large, but still limited, permanent composition of people (teacher, educator, just an employee of a rather large team), make a list of people with whom you will constantly contact. During the memorization period, as you read the list, try to imagine each person whose name it contains.
Step 6
When starting to work with a new children's team, it makes sense to ask the children to make name tags and wear them for some time. This will allow both you and the guys to quickly remember each other's names. It is only important, every time, when addressing a child, not to forget to repeat his name. Mentally or aloud, so that the memorization process goes faster.
Step 7
To memorize the names of the participants in a limited group, created, for example, during a training or role play, you can, along with badges, include games that help to remember the names of the participants better. One of the options for such games is the following. Everyone is in a circle. One of the participants says his name, the next repeats the name of the previous one and calls his own. The last participant must list the names of everyone in front of him in turn, and then introduce himself.
