Mastering the Art of Conversation: 7 Steps to Being Smooth | TIME
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Whatever the context, old friends or new, it is best if speakers respect five principles:
- Put others at ease
- Put yourself at ease
- Weave in all parties
- Establish shared interests
- Actively pursue your own
That's good! Also...
Great Conversationalists Listen More Than Talk
To help doctors be better listeners, their responses are graded from 1 to 6 with the “empathic communication coding system.”
The higher the number, the better.
Via The Art of Conversation: A Guided Tour of a Neglected Pleasure:
6: Shared feeling/experience
5: Confirmation of an emotion’s legitimacy
4: Pursuit of the topic
3: Acknowledgment
2: Implicit recognition (but changing the topic)
1: Perfunctory recognition (autopilot)
0: Denial/contradiction
11:22 AM Jul 21 2014