Conversation Techniques - How to speak so that people want to listen

Holding a conversation is quite a useful skill that some people do naturally but the rest of us need to work at. Here are some techniques and ideas you can use to initiate and sustain a sparkling conversation and some we need to avoid.
Seven deadly sense of speaking that we need to avoid:
  1. Gossip
  2. Judging
  3. Negativity
  4. Complaining
  5. Excuses
  6. Lying
  7. Dogmatism
HAIL technique to help you have a good conversation:
    Honesty: be clear and straight
    Authenticity : be yourself
    Integrity: be your word
    Love: wish them well

Some other techniques that we could use to make people want to listen:
    Register: Locate your voice

Some other techniques that we could use to make people want to listen:
    Register: Locate your voice, we associate deep voice with power and authority.
    Timber: We prefer rich, smooth, warm voice.
    Prosody: The root one for meaning, it gets the message sent easily.
    Pace: fast to quickly say something, or slow to emphasize something.
    Pitch & volume. 

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