Networking 101: The Importance of Small Talk

Learn the importance of this often overlooked skill.  We discuss how “to work a room” at a company party, when you are solo in a room of strangers and when to leave them wanting more while making a graceful exit to another group.  This workshop is a must for anyone in business or who wants to work on his or her social skills and make more friends and network a new company.  And, with the new constrictions in our post-pandemic world, re-learning the new social constructs is a must for future professional success!

DeAnna Radaj is the owner of DeAnna On Design/DesignLEAN, an integrative lifestyle design company, which fuses Eastern and Western design/lifestyle philosophies. She is a nationally recognized speaker on healthy home design, color therapy/theory, psychology of clutter for adults and children, and a variety of business topics for the individual, small business owner and entrepreneur. With degrees in marketing & interior design, she has fused these skills to work on numerous design challenges in the development of store spaces of a variety of sizes, custom product development and merchandising strategies. She has trained clients on coaching employees, sales, merchandising and marketing/public relations. DeAnna has been featured in M Magazine, MKE, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, LowesForPros, HGTV.com, DIY.com & DIVA Toolbox. She is the author of numerous articles and is the former editor of the Wisconsin ASID newsletter, which featured her column “The Business of Design.” She is the author of “Designing the Life of Your Dreams from the Outside In” and “Feng Shui for Teens.”