177: How to Start a Conversation With Anyone, with Mark Sieverkropp

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mark Sieverkropp: How to Start a Conversation With Anyone

Mark and I were both featured by Forbes as 25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch in 2015

1. First Impressions last the longest

John Corcoran spoke in episode 169 on what we can do to recover from a bad first impression

2. Practice the type of listening that makes a difference

“…if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.” -Dale Carnegie

3. Understand who people are by how they act

4. People like others who share their same interests

5. Do not hold your listener hostage

6. Remembering the conversation is crucial to growing the relationship

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0:00.0	I'm a little better at this now, but I've struggled with it for years.
0:05.0	Today, six steps for starting a conversation with anyone, anywhere.
0:11.0	This is coaching for Leaders, episode 177.
0:14.6	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:19.5	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm
0:28.0	your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly show to help leaders improve their communication, strategy, coaching, productivity, and personal mastery.
0:40.0	And today we're going to tackle a topic on communication that's so important for leaders in any role in any organization.
0:48.0	And that is how to start a conversation with anybody, which is a really key skill to have and a lot of people, me included,
0:57.0	struggle with this on being able to walk into a room or to walk into meet a client or to just to you know be walking
1:07.2	down the street and to run into someone and to strike up a conversation and
1:11.2	it's it's something I'm always looking to get better at and that's why I'm
1:15.2	really glad to introduce to you today Mark Severcrop. Mark and I just met recently and he is an
1:21.0	author consultant and speaker. he's the author of
1:24.4	Project Success which climbed to number three in the self-help category in the Amazon
1:29.2	Kindle store he's passionate about connecting with others finding ways to add value to help them and to help other people do the same.
1:37.6	And Mark and I got connected just in the last couple of weeks because we both appeared on in an article that was published on Forbes on the 25 professional networking experts to watch in 2015 and when that article came out
1:54.0	Mark and I were both on the list and Mark reached out to me and said hey it's nice to
1:58.7	know you and I'd love to love the chat sometime and we had a great chat and I found out about his book and I knew it was a great
2:06.3	fit for our audience. Mark I'm so glad to welcome you to the show.
2:09.3	Thanks Dave, it's glad it's good to be here. I you. I read that and I sent that message to you.
2:15.8	You know, you have one of those names that I had heard around and I had seen you on Twitter
2:19.5	and whatnot and I think I was actually following you before that,
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