Why are conversations important?
- Communicate with another person
- Tell someone something important
- Get to know someone
- Pass on info.
Benefits for being good at conversations?
- Meet new people
- Making money, jobs, and better jobs
- avoiding conflict
- building relationships
- Power
How do you become good at conversation?
- Talk to a lot of people
- Practice speaking clearly
Why do we need conversations?
- Relationship building
- Happy marriage, communicating effectively,
- Emotional connection
- Which of the five senses are most important
- W/O ability to touch you lose out on an emotional connection
- Which of the five senses are most important
- They can reflect how you feel about someone
- Settle and/or avoid conflict
- Display genuine care for those you love
- Allow us to get to know other people
- Communicates information
What are the Steps to being good at conversation?
Step 1: Be Brave
Act like you want to talk to this person
Be assertive
Step 2: The Handshake
Don’t kill the person, but be firm
Step 3: Say your name
Introduce yourself with both your first and last name- plus a smile
Step 4: Listen to their name
Repeat their name back: “it’s nice to meet you, Sophia.”
Step 5: Have a conversation
Ask questions - People like talking about themselves
Be interesting - no one likes talking about the weather
- Tip: Ask deep questions-But don’t be creepy
-Be confident - Nervousness can look like you don’t want to talk to this person
What sort of physical characteristics should be avoided when giving a speech?
- Swinging arms around
- running
- pacing
- crossing arms
- swaying back and forth
- stuttering
- saying like or um
Stand up straight (do not….)
- Slouch
- Sway
- Lean on one foot
- Lean against a wall
- Lock your knees
Stand up straight (do… )
- Have confidence
- Keep feet at shoulder length apart
- Keep together if you struggle with swaying
Use concrete gestures (do not)
- Be robotic or repetitive
- Hesitate
- Constantly give gestures
Use concrete gestures (do)
- Have a few gestures to use (find more as you develop as a speaker)
- Have gestures for your particular speech
- Bring your gestures above your waist (confidence)
- Be casual
Free from nervous habits (do not… )
Play with random parts of your body/clothing
Free from nervous habits (do… )
- Record yourself to realize what you’re doing
- Be confident
- Power Stances
Appropriate facial expressions (do not… )*****
- Be apathetic
- Be boring
Appropriate facial expressions (do… )
- Smile!
- Use eyebrows
- Figure out what emotion you want to be in your speech -and match it to your face
What are the 7 hand gestures?
- Dialect
- Critical whirl
- Backhand slap
- Tiny Dialect
- The point
- Shelf Sweep
- Pick up small ideas
