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:
- Gossip
- Judging
- Negativity
- Complaining
- Excuses
- Lying
- 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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