The only truck I've heard is to make sure you repeat their name vocally once introduced, like 'Nice to meet you, Xerxes!'

I always forget to do this, though so everyone at work knows my name and I only retain leadership's names.

I find it's best to just acknowledge it in a jokey way. "hey good to see you again but I have no long term memory, tell me your name again?"... "Jim"... "ok hi Jim, I look forward to having this conversation again next time. How's life?"

Name tags lol

I don't have a good technique, just q similar event. A friend of a friend remembered my somewhat complicated and hard to pronounce name, and pronounced it correctly. I forgot his name. So I thought up something clever. We traded numbers and I asked him to spell his name for me. Genius Chat, Genius!

He looks at me a little confused and spells his name for me: A, C, E.

I try to avoid introducing myself until the conversation is winding down. "Oh by the way, I'm so-and-so" sounds cool too.

I've been using this app called Elevate. Supposed to help with my thinking skills, and has a bunch of memory exercises... it's been helping!

"It's Achlan!"

I'm the reverse, if someone has a unique name that is either interesting because it is from another language or culture I have like a 50/50 chance of remembering it depending on length but all the Johns are gonna be 'hey you' in about 30 seconds unless they are wearing a name tag.

Also, none of the memory tricks that are supposed to help remember names work for me and I tried for a couple decades. Associating with something else means now I have two things that I forgot, and repeating their name at them will just turn into a pile of mush in my brain. I just need to interact with them long enough for it to eventually stick, can't force it.

Worst "trick" I have tried to use is for people who have the same name as me, or my brother, or someone other person who is very close to me: "oh great, that's my name too! Now I won't have to remember a new one!". We laugh and high five.

Of course, then I don't retain any association with their face and it fails spectacularly next time I see them.