How to Talk - Weather, Sports, Busy
How to Talk - Weather, Sports, Busy is an applied improv exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask the participants if they want to guarantee better, deeper and more meaningful conversations about
- Share that some "personal research you have been doing has yielded that about 75% of all conversation
- By show of hands, ask how many participants are willing to bypass these 'conversational crutches" to
- Have participants turn to a neighbor and practice NOT talking about the weather, sports, or personal
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Prompts to use +
Ask the participants if they want to guarantee better, deeper and more meaningful conversations about
Share that some "personal research you have been doing has yielded that about 75% of all conversation
By show of hands, ask how many participants are willing to bypass these 'conversational crutches" to
Have participants turn to a neighbor and practice NOT talking about the weather, sports, or personal
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: How to Talk - Weather, Sports, Busy. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask the participants if they want to guarantee better, deeper and more meaningful conversations about; Share that some "personal research you have been doing has yielded that about 75% of all conversation; By show of hands, ask how many participants are willing to bypass these 'conversational crutches" to; Have participants turn to a neighbor and practice NOT talking about the weather, sports, or personal. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
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