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Want to make a better impression when you network? Liz and Sarah explore how to improve your conversation skills. Hint: be more interested to be more interesting. Then in L vs. S, they debate remodeling. Should Sarah renovate her house or move? Finally, Liz and Sarah reveal this week’s Hollywood Hack courtesy of one of our listeners: crappy dinner party!
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Great episode!
Two tricks I’ve developed in my lifetime of listening: One is to use a form of echolalia, or Rogerian therapy. If you ask someone a question, and they give a short answer, you echo back the last phrase they said (not necessarily exactly). “I do arts and crafts.” “Oh, you do arts and crafts?” or “I’ve been planning a house remodel.” “Oh, a house remodel?” This will often prompt the other person to tell you more. I often do this with clients when I need to draw them out more, but it also works for general conversation.
The second trick is newer to me, and it’s to help me remember to just listen and not interrupt or be planning my own me-story reply (or to try to jump to problem-solving, or guessing where they’re going), and that is to “find the period”. That is, to listen until I can hear that they’ve really reached the end of their sentence, assuming that they are doing a run-on paragraph-long one with lots of semicolons. I have been doing this especially with my husband, who tends to speak slowly when he’s gathering his thoughts, and I think it’s really helping.