6 Prompts for Better Small Talk

Harvard researchers found that people who are successful at making new connections aren’t asking questions like “how are you?” or “what do you do?”. Instead, an easier way to establish rapport with someone new is to discover shared commonalities. For example, a coworker that is reading the same book as you, or hikes the same trails.

Here are 6 small talk prompts for your next networking event or meeting:

  1. What excites you right now?
  2. What are you looking forward to this week?
  3. What’s the best thing that happened to you this year?
  4. Where did you grow up?
  5. What do you do for fun?
  6. What’s your current state of mind?


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