From the course: Nano Tips for Effortless Conversations with Shadé Zahrai and Jefferson Fisher
How to never struggle with small talk
From the course: Nano Tips for Effortless Conversations with Shadé Zahrai and Jefferson Fisher
How to never struggle with small talk
- Here's some tricks that I use to never struggle with small talk, and you can do it too. Number one, stay away from static questions. These are questions like, how's home? How's work? What you been up to? These are boring questions that really don't go anywhere. Instead, you want to make them action oriented. These are questions about the doing. For example, what are you doing this weekend? What are you looking forward to? What are you excited about? Action questions are much more interesting. Number two, how I ask that question matters. If I had just said, you've been staying busy, the only way to answer that is a yes or a no. It's called a closed ended question. But if I open it up, I begin with what's been keeping you busy? It's much more open. And number three, if you run out of things to say, then you've run out of interest in the conversation, and that's okay. Rather than trying to force it and push it and the other person noticing, just politely end the conversation. You want to leave on a positive impression.
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