10 ways to get better at small talk
Oct 13, 2015, 23:08 IST
1. Demonstrate interest in your conversation partner
2. Ask open-ended questions
3. Allow your conversation partner to teach you
4. Read the news
5. Share anecdotes
6. Practice the FORM technique
- F-amily: Do you have kids? Where is your family from? How long have you lived around here?
- O-ccupation: What do you do for a living? What is that like? Have you always been a circus acrobat?
- R-ecreation: What do you guys do for fun? How long have you been involved in SCA? Where do you buy chain-mail, or did you make it yourself?
- M-oney: What happened with the price of gas? Did you see that last school-bond issue? How do you think the new liquor-store laws will shake out? Anybody you know lose their job lately?
