
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
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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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For more than 25 years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his best seller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This newly revised and updated edition combines classic techniques in the art of conversation with necessary skills for communicating in the 21st century.
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Simply just average. Don't expect too much here,
- By Guilherme on 05-30-13
By: Don Gabor
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Small Talk Made Simple
- 31 Techniques to Avoid Social Anxiety and Lead Genuine Conversations
- By: Sidney Neel
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Do you find yourself struggling to start conversations, and lack confidence when talking to new people? Perhaps you have always struggled with social anxiety, and you are sick and tired of letting it impact your social engagements and friendships. Or, maybe you were quite social in your younger years, but as you have gotten older you have become more socially anxious, and you want to revert back to your previous self. Whatever the reason is, if you suffer from social anxiety, this book is a must-read. Small Talk Made Simple discusses 31 different techniques that you can use to avoid social ...
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Nice Read!!
- By Anonymous User on 09-12-24
By: Sidney Neel
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How to Talk to Anyone
- The Introvert’s Guide to Starting Conversations with Anyone at Anytime, Effortlessly Continue Conversations and Turn Strangers Into Life Long Friends (Confident and Purpose Driven, Book 1)
- By: Joe Tucker
- Narrated by: Andy Mahaney
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Have you ever found yourself panicking when faced with the idea of making conversation with another person? Has a simple “hello” seemed as daunting as running a marathon? Have you skipped out on social and work events, because it just seems too hard to connect with new people? If so, you are not alone. You see, talking to strangers and making friends doesn’t have to be complicated. Even if you’ve tried being awkwardly polite. The truth is, it’s much simpler than you think.
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no examples only theory
- By Frank J. Warner on 03-29-25
By: Joe Tucker
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How to Persuade and Get Paid
- The Sales Workshop for Everyone
- By: Phil M. Jones
- Narrated by: Phil M. Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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How to Persuade and Get Paid is a sales training program that combines information and entertainment to teach you exactly what it takes to create success in today’s challenging marketplace.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People for the Modern Age
- By Bryan Eisenberg on 02-11-19
By: Phil M. Jones
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Letting Go of Laziness + The Art of Self-Control
- 2 in 1 Bundle: 7 Habits to Control Your Time, Boost Productivity, and Avoid Procrastinating & Reclaim Your Attention and Mental Concentration
- By: John Ward
- Narrated by: William Harvey Jr.
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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How many times have you caught yourself lying in bed, watching TV, scrolling your phone, or just chilling and doing nothing? Trust me. I know how it feels like. Often, it looks like you want to do something, but your body just doesn’t respond, and at the end of the day, you start your mental self-destruction process because you haven’t done anything productive - and that is the first stage of super-laziness most people have to overcome.
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Few good ideas, poor examples, horrible narration
- By Kindle Customer on 01-16-21
By: John Ward
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Simple Small Talk
- An Everyday Social Skills Guidebook for Introverts on How to Lose Fear and Talk to New People. Including Hacks, Questions and Topics to Instantly Connect, Impress and Network
- By: Gerard Shaw
- Narrated by: John-Michael Jalonen
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Did you ever wonder what kind of impression you leave on the people you meet? Have you ever been introduced to someone only to run out of things to say after the initial “hello”? Do you struggle with small talk and often find yourself in a “awkward silence” situation? Luckily, there are methods and techniques you can use to improve your small talk skills, boost your confidence, and make a great first impression every time.
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Ch8 is the most useful
- By StarRocket on 11-05-22
By: Gerard Shaw
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Improve Your Conversations
- Think on Your Feet, Witty Banter, and Always Know What to Say with Improv Comedy Techniques
- By: Patrick King
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Does your mind blank in conversation and create awkward silence? Do you run out of things to say and struggle to keep dialogue flowing? (A) Conversation isn't scripted, (B) it's 100% unpredictable, and (C) it can be terrifying at times. How do you prepare for such a thing? By learning how to apply improv comedy techniques to roll with any punch and improve your conversations and social interactions.
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should be required reading or listening
- By Jeff on 05-30-17
By: Patrick King
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Science Fictions
- How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
- By: Stuart Ritchie
- Narrated by: Stuart Ritchie
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless—or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science—with sometimes deadly consequences.
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Needed Now More Than Ever
- By Todd on 08-06-20
By: Stuart Ritchie
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Conversationally Speaking
- Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Roy McCrerey
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Conversationally Speaking has become the most popular book in the world teaching conversation skills. Millions of people have used it to learn the secrets of effective communication. This revised edition provides more ways to improve your conversation skills by giving you strategies that work for starting conversations, asking questions that promote interaction, interesting people in what you have to say, listening so that others will be encouraged to talk, avoiding rejection-producing behavior, handling criticism constructively, and more.
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Basic and Dry
- By Amazon Customer on 05-01-23
By: Alan Garner
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Small Talk Rules
- 65 Lessons I Learned From The Greatest Communicators
- By: Gregory Peart
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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***1ST PLACE WINNER - WRITER'S DIGEST 2023*** EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO MASTER SMALL TALK. From the author of the best-selling book, You Can Be Funny and Make People Laugh (2019), comes the next social skills book guaranteed to change your life. If you knew the secrets and techniques of the best conversationalists, what else could you achieve in life? Based on the largest observational study of social interactions ever conducted, spanning 15 years and 22,000 conversations, this book contains more real-life examples and actionable techniques than any social skills book on the market. ...
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A book about being human read by a robot
- By Ed on 05-18-25
By: Gregory Peart
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The Charisma Myth
- How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
- By: Olivia Fox Cabane
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileione
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The world will become your lab, and every person you meet, a chance to experiment.
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the mystery of the missing workbook
- By kwinebold on 12-10-13
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The Wisdom of the Shamans:
- What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us About Love and Life
- By: Don Jose Ruiz
- Narrated by: Charlie Varon
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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In The Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life, Toltec shaman and master storyteller Don Jose Ruiz shares some of the most popular stories from his family's oral tradition and offers corresponding lessons that illustrate the larger ideas within each story. According to Ruiz, their teachings are not primitive or reserved for a chosen few initiates but are instead a powerful series of lessons on love and life that are available us all.
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Wooowzers
- By nicole tillman on 07-28-18
By: Don Jose Ruiz
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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