Make conversations less awkward with this easy tactic. Yes-or-no questions keep conversations from settling into a good flow—or end it before it really starts. The best conversation starters invite ...

My best conversations are with my friend Rich. He doesn’t have extraordinary speaking talents or the ability to tell side-splitting jokes. It’s just that after talking with Rich, I somehow feel ...

Talking too much shuts down others, while talking too little can be boring. Learning to elaborate personal stories ...

Nothing is more magnetic than a person who can have a good conversation without hijacking it. Here are four steps you can take to become that person. Natural magnetism isn’t about being the loudest ...

A lot of current career advice has been focusing on how networking—talking to and making connections with other people—is the best way to find a job and future proof your career. Many articles include ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Many people are not effective in a conversation. Far too many people feel over-confident in social groups, overconfident relative to the actual impact they have on their conversational partner. They ...