MAKING SMALL TALK
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. —Dale Carnegie
Small talk doesn’t come easily to all of us. Whether it’s in a pub or club, at parties or weddings, conferences or meetings or simply in the queue for coffee or at the bus stop, there’s a number of places and occasions when small talk can be a big challenge.
Maybe you think small talk is shallow or boring and that there’s more to life than talking about the weather; if it’s sleet, snow or rain and how cold it is. Or perhaps you find the idea of having to make social chit chat alarming; you do what you can to avoid occasions where you might be required to ...
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