Workers spend almost four hours per day on average communicating through email, instant messaging, and video or phone calls, according to a 2023 survey from Zoom. Alison Wood Brooks, author of Talk: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conversations, whether at holiday parties or other times of the year, don’t have to be awkward. (Getty Images) (Rawpixel via Getty ...

Giving compliments often and really laughing at others' jokes can bring some joy and excitement to the interaction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you want to have more meaningful conversations, try this therapist-backed technique. ABRAHAM GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ via Getty ...

The secret to being a good conversationalist—one people enjoy talking with, and whose company they seek—is very simple. It's talking with them, not to them or at them. It works like magic. William ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

As a trained scientist, I had a fantastic research mentor. We talked about my research project, which experiments to prioritize and what the data meant, and we even sometimes discussed personal things ...

I attended a party recently where the conversation just couldn't gain momentum. Many of us didn't know each other and surface-level topics were exhausted after the first hour. Then, one of my more ...

Between holiday dinners with relatives you haven’t heard from all year, office parties with coworkers you may not be close to and school events with random parents, there are loads of gatherings this ...