Do it right and you’ll gain people’s respect. What’s one simple thing you can do to project confidence and subtly increase your influence on other people? Be the one to end a conversation. It’s a ...

Make conversations less awkward with this easy tactic. Yes-or-no questions keep conversations from settling into a good flow—or end it before it really starts. The best conversation starters invite ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nina A. Kohn is a Distinguished Professor of Law at Syracuse University and a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. This ...

My best conversations are with my friend Rich. He doesn’t have extraordinary speaking talents or the ability to tell side-splitting jokes. It’s just that after talking with Rich, I somehow feel ...

Have you ever wondered what happened to the casual signoff, “Let’s talk about it later?” It seems those simple words about a conversation that awaits have been replaced with, “I’ll text you.” Googling ...

There is something strangely refreshing about the new year. Perhaps it’s the sense that time coheres into a neat box, or the psychological appeal of getting a brand-new start. Culturally, humans have ...

I am guilty of replaying every conversation for the day in my head before I go to sleep. I have an anxious mind. I always second-guess the way I handled certain conversations. Heck, I’ll probably ...