#78 - The most important social skill EP3
Becoming Great.com - A podcast by Great.com
One of the most important factors of Erik's business success is that he a great networker. He's good at creating exciting conversations where people open up and they quickly get to know each other. In this episode, we will teach you the technique that he is using, breaking it down in examples, explaining how to use it and why it works. Today's episode has been split up in four topics: 1. What's the beep beep technique? 2. How to make every conversation interesting? 3. How can you make someone excited to talk to you? 4. Why does the beep beep technique work, what is the magic going on? -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person. We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- 1. In the first section we are explaining the "beep beep technique", a way of asking questions and finding the most meaningful and interesting topics for both parties in a conversation. There isn't a magic formula of what specific question to ask but there are several guidelines that you can use to get much better at conversations. 2. In the second section we use the beep-beep technique in several different examples. Showing you how it can be used to take the conversation to more exciting places and how you can avoid making common mistakes that make conversations flat and boring. 3. In the third section we are diving deeper into the beep beep technique and show you how you can use the tone of voice and choices of words from the person you are talking with to find the best ways of asking further questions. 4. In the final section we are breaking down the technique to see what is actually happening when we are using it. What are the different parts of the technique that makes it work and how can you apply it in your own life. -- Social media channels: http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.e