Learn Small Talk

Why Team Small Talk is vitally important to working life:


Team Small Talk is important at work - actually, it's an important and essential part of work. It enables us to find common ground and shared interests. It improves active listening skills. It helps us build muscles to overcome social discomfort and it improve spontaneity.

Team Small Talk sparks collaboration, improve creativity, innovation and performance. Team Small Talk boost energy and make everybody feel 'seen'. It lays the groundwork for transitioning into more serious, deeper topics which require a greater degree of psychological safety.

Here are 7 groundrules for making Team Small Talk work. But before this you have to come closer to all your colleagues in order to give these groundrules a chance to work:
  • Be friendly.
  • Be enthusiastic.
  • Be curious.
  • Be helpful.
  • Send the right signals with face.
  • Send the right signals with body.
  • Send the right signals with voice.
How to learn to become a Team Small Talker

Practice, exercise and rehearse. This is how you can become a good Small Talker. My daughter sat down on a parkbench in TIVOLI waiting for a stranger to sit at the other end of the bench. One minute later a woman sat down. My daughter turned her head and said while she realized that the woman was a very famous showbiz caracter: ' Hello Sanne Salomonsen, how are you?'

Sanne answered: 'Thank you, fine.' - and the she paused - and so did my daughter. This pause is very important. Don't interrupt the person who is still thinking about her answer. There is more to come and so there was: 'Now that you are asking, I've had a new hip replacement, so I need to sit a bit.'

Suddenly Sanne and my daughter talked about everything and they had a great time on the bench. They bonded and became palls in minutes. 

This story is a fine example of what Small Talk is and why it is so important. Not all Small Talk will be as successful as this but if you exercise, practice and rehearse - you will become a master. And you have to be a master in order to succeed. 

Follow this link and read more about The 3 hour Small Talk workshop from LEADERS WAREHOUSE HERE 


Michael Meinhardt
LEADERSwarehouse.com 
☎ +45 71 92 55 63 ✉ info@LEADERSwarehouse.com


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