To improve your performance, career prospects and general enjoyment of your work, experts say it’s important to get back to the banter.
“Small talk is not just a fluffy part of business – it has this real world outcome.”
The weather and the traffic have always been standard small talk go-tos and Lunin says they continue to be easy openers, especially since they’re a bit novel for many of us.
“The people that are naturally chatty need to make sure they’re asking enough questions and drawing other people into the conversation [so] it’s not just all about them.”Winn urges people to ask plenty of questions but stop if someone looks uncomfortable. She likes to test the conversation waters by offering small self-disclosures.
“You can obsess over something you said and think, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have said it’ or ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have said it that way’ [but] I can almost guarantee you that the other person has forgotten about it,” Lunin says.
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