Be Better @ Small Talk

A Wonderfully Imperfect Guide to Talking to People (and getting away cleanly)

Four openers. One exit. That is most of it.

Everybody who looks easy at this learnt it by accident, in a house where it happened to be modelled. You just never got the lesson, which is a very different thing from being bad at it.

Inside: the openers that work everywhere from a funeral to a forklift, the three-part exit that lets you leave anyone warmly and what to say when it goes quiet, goes wrong or goes somewhere heavy.

No personality transplant. No networking. Just the words, and the proof that four seconds of silence is not as long as it feels.

• The openers, in your pocket. Four that always work and one that never runs out.
• The exit, in three parts. Signal, warm summary, reason. Then actually move.
• The silence, survived. Four seconds is not long. Here is the proof.

Includes a free printable Small Talk wallet card.

Paperback: 127 pages, 140 x 216mm, illustrated. ISBN 978-1-7648879-5-3
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Betty Better. Wonderfully imperfect on purpose.