What Is Your Conversational Style?

Jim LaBate
8 min readOct 15, 2020
Photo by Warren Wong on Unsplash

Every time we say “Hello” to another person, we stand at the entrance to a potential conversation. Oftentimes, the way we say “Hello” will lead the other person to initiate the conversation or to cancel that potential conversation. Once we are admitted to the dialogue, though, our own conversational style will either allow that conversation to live and thrive, or it will cause that conversation to wither and die. Here are some…

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Jim LaBate

Jim LaBate is a writer and teacher who assists in The Writing Center at Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in Troy, New York.