Businesses need to teach their staff how to have better small talk and ditch weather chat
Georgie Nightall is the founder of Trigger Conversations,
Next week, I’ll be delivering the UK’s first university module in navigating small talk and networking at BPP University Law School.
A university class on small talk? Do students really need to learn this, can it be taught, I hear you ask? Or perhaps you are shuddering at the idea of having small talk at all.
Personally, I’ve never been a fan of small talk. I started Trigger Conversations in 2016 to create safe spaces to dive deep into meaningful conversations with strangers and skip the small talk. But when asked how to do this in real life I realised I needed a different strategy.