Conversation. It’s something my mother taught me sitting around her kitchen table. And that’s how I got to know my mother and many of her friends and my own. Building conversation with others is a skill I have taken into both my personal and professional life. But sometimes I wonder if this skill is still being practiced? Because the other night I was out to dinner with my husband and I saw another couple with cell phones in their hands. They were both texting. And I thought, “Surely, they aren’t texting each other? While out to dinner with each other?” I must admit that once my 13-year-old son was in the basement playing videos and he called me on my cell phone because I was upstairs. I looked at my cell phone ringing with utter surprise and then said to my son, “You come up here and talk to me. We live in the same house!” What happened to being with each other? And good olde’ face-to-face conversation? Looking at each other eye ball to eye ball and beginning to build the relationship? It’s important in families and in the workplace. And…“Is it happening?”
Powerful question: What conversation can you start that will build a relationship?
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