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Successful Conversations

Successful Conversations

“I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.”

– Kim Smith



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Your Communication

There are many different reasons to have conversations with others: to meet someone new, resolve a conflict, get to know someone better, provide someone support, and get support from someone, among others.

One way to increase your social supports is to have successful conversations with others. Having successful conversations usually begins with good communication.

Being a good communicator or conversationalist takes time and practice. A starting place is to learn some communication skills, which may also help you build relationships, have successful conversations, and help you key into contextual or situational cues.

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Skills for Relationship Building

It’s important to consider your communication style and strategies for building relationships.

It takes more than just communication to build relationships. Relationships are often built on shared interests.

Asking questions can help you uncover shared interests or things you have in common with others. Exploring shared interests and asking good questions starts with a first impression.

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Understanding Social Context

Building relationships as an adult can be challenging. Meeting new people may make you anxious or uncomfortable. That’s okay!

It’s natural to feel uncomfortable when meeting new people, but remember, the other person probably feels awkward, too.

Meeting new people is the first step in building and forming relationships with others.

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Social Support Goal Check-in

  • Check in on social support goals and how they are going
  • Remember, while peers share their social support goals and how they are going, try listening to learn
  • If you have an idea about what might help with a barrier they are experiencing, ask your peer if they would like an idea or if they only want us to hear about their experiences
  • Next week is our last week. How are you feeling about your social support goal and keeping it going?

Resources

Communication Self-Assessment

Videos

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