If names are not included, carry a pencil and write them in. These would make good flash cards for you to further imprint these names with practice and repetition. You could follow this up by making a competition with an associate. Motivate your memory by trying to memorize more names at a gathering than anyone else in your circle of friends. Mnemonic devices are techniques that increase your ability to recall names, speeches, test information, and grocery lists.
Mnemonics do have limitations.
They do not help you understand information, they can be difficult to learn, they may take more energy to develop than just memorizing in more traditional ways, and they do not work as well for technical terms used in math and science. Nonetheless, for the creative right brained individual mnemonics can be helpful. Acronyms are one of the best known mnemonic methods. Acronyms are words created by the first letter of a series of words. Mothers Against Drunk Driving.