small talk is not about you saying what you need to say.

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The video effectively uses a personal anecdote to illustrate the importance of small talk in professional settings, making the advice relatable and actionable for viewers interested in improving their communication skills.

Summary

The speaker explains that small talk is crucial for building rapport before engaging in business. She shares her personal experience of needing to develop small talk skills when she moved to Canada and started working as a restaurant manager, realizing its importance in facilitating smoother business interactions.

Structure

1Defining small talk
2Personal anecdote about needing small talk skills
3Observing how others use small talk
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small talk is not about you saying what you need to say. It's about making the other person comfortable and you showing interest in them. So I never really thought that small talk is so necessary until I moved to Canada and I started working as a restaurant manager where I had to communicate with my team, customers, so much more communication than I would normally do. And every single time they would either call someone or contact someone or meet someone. They would have this small interaction at the beginning of their conversation before they moved into the professional business topics. And because I was around, I was actually paying attention at how they're doing it. And I realized that for those first few minutes of small talk, feel a little bit more relaxed around each other. So when it comes to doing business, a few minutes later they have this wrapper going on already and when the time came for me to interact with all these people.