Dear Miss Manners: I just started a new job, and a group text chat was created for us to communicate about our shift availability. However, employees have begun using this chat for small talk. I can’t ...

Charles Duhigg, author of "The Power of Habit," argues that small talk isn't an innate skill, but rather a learned behavior that can be studied and crafted to perfectly suit any situation — whether ...

We've all shared memes about it and even grumbled it out loud ourselves: "This meeting could have been an email." Meetings have become the bane of many workers' existence — and often, the idle ...

Think about what it's like to be at a birthday dinner where you have to interact with your friend's neighbors for the first time, or what it's like to be waiting for a Zoom to begin with coworkers you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Cheryl Robinson covers areas of leadership, pivoting and careers. How do you prevent small talk during meetings so it doesn’t ...

Learning how to get better at small talk might not seem like much of a conversational superpower. Arguably everyone’s least favorite part of socializing, surface-level chitchat can be awkward, ...

Spending hours at the playground is a rite of passage and an almost-daily ritual for many parents … as is making awkward conversation with others who are in the same boat. But fast-talking mamas ...

Why do we humans make small talk? We spend a lot of time worrying about how to chit-chat amusingly or captivatingly. We complain when it seems trivial or a waste of time, and we bemoan the stress of a ...

Have you recently found yourself at a summer barbecue or work outing and been forced to make small talk? Some of us relish the opportunity to chat about things like the weather and pop culture while ...

Summer has landed, and so has temperature-related chit chat: “Hot enough for you?” “Can you believe this humidity?” These lines and their small talk brethren are everywhere: “How are you?” “What’s new ...