How to End a Conversation
Course Description:
This course will provide participants with an understanding of how to effectively end conversations. Topics covered include techniques for graciously exiting conversations, strategies for hard endings, and methods of avoiding awkwardness when transitioning out of a conversation. Participants will gain an understanding of how to use these concepts to bring conversations to a respectful and successful conclusion.
Course Objectives:
- Identify polite tactics for ending conversations
- Utilize techniques for gracefully exiting conversations
- Develop strategies for making hard endings
- Understand approaches for bringing conversations to a close without creating awkwardness
- Leverage diplomatic language when appropriate during the transition out of conversations
- Analyze methods for expressing gratitude in the context of ending conversations
- Identify best practices for encouraging further communication in the future
- Use words and phrases that accurately convey closure
- Demonstrate an understanding of principles related to conversation endings through written assignments and class discussions
- Implement measures for continual improvement in existing conversation skills
