
The Fine Art of Small Talk
How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills - and Leave a Positive Impression!
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Debra Fine
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Debra Fine
Nationally recognized communication expert, keynote speaker and trainer and best-selling author Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talk—in any situation. Do you spend an abnormal amount of time hiding out in the bathroom or hanging out at the buffet table at social gatherings? Does the thought of striking up a conversation with a stranger make your stomach do flip-flops? Do you sit nervously through job interviews waiting for the other person to speak? Are you a Nervous Ned or Nellie when it comes to networking? Then it's time you mastered the fine art of small talk.
With practical advice and conversation cheat sheets, The Fine Art of Small Talk will help you learn to feel more comfortable in any type of social or mingling situation, from lunch with the boss, a first face-to-face date, to an industry event, a business networking opportunity, or even a cocktail party where you don't know a soul. In this newly revised, updated edition Fine offers additional tools and tips on virtual interactions, managing political conversations, and navigating conversations addressing transition, illness, and grief.
This fast-paced, informative audio program offers concrete tools to:
- Strike up conversations and keep them going
- Master introductions and remember names
- Come across as composed and self-assured when interacting decision makers, client, and colleagues
- Develop rapport with anyone
- Become an “active” listener
- Overcome communication barriers
- Handle awkward situations
- Come up with topics to discuss
- Avoid conversation “killers”
- Prepare for successful conversation
- Exit conversations with grace
- Feel more at ease at award receptions, banquets, receptions, and networking events
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There is the usual fluff. Debra Fine spends almost an hour of the book telling you how learning small talk skills will improve your life (as though someone who bought a book on the subject needs convincing). She does give mostly solid advice but there is some perplexing and even contradictory stuff, too. One that left me scratching my head was when she advises you to say "Happy Holidays," because you never know what holidays the person you are talking to celebrates, and then in a subsequent chapter advises singles to go on dates with people even if they "aren't the gender you are attracted to." Call me unenlightened but it seems much ruder to me to lead someone on and waste their evening than it does to wish they have a happy holiday that they don't celebrate. I also found the delivery of some of the information to be a bit syrupy. The chapter on conversation killers seemed especially saccharine.
Then there is the narration. Debra Fine is not a bad narrator but she is definitely not a great one. The best I can say is that she sounds forced and exaggerated if tolerable.
The book has its brighter, more practical points but, overall, I felt as though it could've been shortened by almost an hour and, more than once, felt as though Ms. Fine was handing out advice that had nothing to do with small talk.
Has its flaws...
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Indispensable Goldmine for Learning to Small Talk
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Interesting book, bad narration.
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Good tips
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over a great listen
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Pretty good tips
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Practical
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Simple and Easy
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my initial review follows. the initial few chapters seem like an extended infomercial for why there should be a book on small talk. but that really was necessary to set the motivation and perspective for the importance of small talk. it has many practical examples and situations. a great how to book.
great practical tips for making small talk
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loved it. confidence changing book. The techniques shown are a sure way of firing new connections and creating lasting impressions in all walks of life
a great road to success
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