Networking - Joining a Group Already Engaged in Conversation - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. When you approach a group of people that are already engaged in a conversation, you have to wait to be invited in. That group, if it is a large group, could be looking like they are speaking about light interesting topics. That is more of an invitation than if it is a serious kind of conversation they are having. So, read their body language, look for an opening in the group so that you can come in. Wait until someone looks directly at you and indicates that you are welcome to join the group. If you receive no visual indication through a gesture, a nod or a welcome, then you do not enter that group. You want to enter the group slowly and be welcomed, and you want to catch the energy of the group, as well as the content of what is being said, and then you are a welcomed guest in that group.