How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes gives short, named techniques for first impressions, small talk, rapport, praise, phone calls and parties. For anyone who feels awkward with new people.
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Leil Lowndes
author and public speaker
- Occupation
- Author, Public speaker, Communication coach
- Known for
- How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
- Website
- lowndes.com
About Leil Lowndes
Leil Lowndes is an author and speaker on communication and relationships. Publisher biographies say she earlier founded and directed The Project, a New York organization that did research and counseling on relationships. She runs a speaking and consulting company, Applause, Inc., and has led seminars for corporations, associations and the public in the United States and abroad.
Her books break social skills into many short, named techniques. How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You (1996) applies studies on attraction to romance, and Goodbye to Shy gives exercises for shy people. How to Talk to Anyone (2003), a revised version of her earlier book Talking the Winner's Way, is her best-known work. It offers 92 tricks for first impressions, small talk, rapport and parties, each with a memorable name such as "Rubberneck the Room."
Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics say many of the techniques rest on anecdote rather than research.
Books by Leil Lowndes
New books, occasionally