Forgotten How to Small Talk?

Over the past year, many of our social muscles have severely atrophied. We’ve spent more time enjoying the conversations and interactions of actors on a screen than actually talking and interacting with people around us. So, with the world opening up again we may find it slightly more uncomfortable than usual to strike up small talk at the office’s water cooler. In fact, some of us may even start to wonder why we even use small talk to begin with. Does polite chit-chat have a purpose in society? And how do we start small talking again after a year of social isolation? Here to help answer these questions is one of the world’s leading experts on business networking, Ivan Misner.