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Loren Ekroth, Ph.D.
 DrConversation
 
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Three More Conversation Tips
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August 25, 2009 Contents
What's Your Purpose?
Share the Good Stuff
Don't Be a "Know-it-all"
Changing Internet Services?
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This Week's Issue: 
August 25, 2009
Here are more three conversation tips you can use immediately!

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This Week's Contents, August 25, 2009
Words this issue:  238
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  1. What's Your Purpose?
  2. Share the Good Stuff
  3. Don't be a Know-it-all
  4. Changing Internet Services?

1.  What's Your Purpose?

Be clear about your purpose when conversing.  For example, are you trying to persuade someone or just to have a fun time talking?

If your purpose is unclear - if you're really trying to sell someone while pretending to make social conversation - you might create an awkward situation.  Be clear, not confusing or deceptive.

2. Share the Good Stuff

Be on the lookout for bits of information that are useful, funny, or uplifting.  When you share them with friends and co-workers, they'll see you as a more interesting person, as one who often has something of value to share because you regularly offer them a `free prize inside`.

3.  Don't Be a "Know-it-all"

Masterful conversation requires flexibility and the willingness to stay open to new information we haven't yet learned.  (You may have noticed that certain people become uneasy if they don't know everything, and they become defensive.  It's better to be humble and willing to learn.  When you don't know everything, no need to be resistant.  You can tactfully inquire and find out.  Be a learner, not a smarty-pants.

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Loren Ekroth, Ph.D. is a specialist in human communication and a national expert on conversation for business and social life. 

 

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