{"id":10119,"date":"2021-09-14T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2021-09-14T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:00:57","slug":"have-we-forgotten-how-to-small-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/have-we-forgotten-how-to-small-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Have We Forgotten How to Small Talk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of the state of our human interaction skills before the pandemic, many of us may be feeling ill-prepared to socialize with others &#8211; and this is understandable.\u00a0 After all, we have all been through a lot in the last 18 months:\u00a0 living in relative isolation, a pandemic, and a shift to working remotely.\u00a0 Check out<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> helpful tips here <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to help you start conversations and prepare you to socialize again!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2021\/07\/have-we-forgotten-how-to-small-talk?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=newsletter_daily&#038;utm_campaign=mtod_notactsubs\">Have We Forgotten How to Small Talk?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Our personal journeys have varied widely over the last year. It&#8217;s understandable if that makes us cautious about making deeper connects with people. Virtual meetings typically get right down to business. There have been few, if any, interstitial spaces on our work agendas to catch up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the state of our human interaction skills before the pandemic, many of us may be feeling ill-prepared to socialize with others &#8211; and this is understandable.\u00a0 After all, we have all been through a lot in the last 18 months:\u00a0 living in relative isolation, a pandemic, and a shift to working remotely.\u00a0 Check out helpful tips here to help you start conversations and prepare you to socialize again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2021\/06\/A_Jul21_07_601799169-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Have We Forgotten How to Small Talk?","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3],"tags":[406,455,517],"class_list":{"0":"post-10119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"category-wellness","9":"tag-covid19","10":"tag-emotional_wellness","11":"tag-return_to_work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10120,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions\/10120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}