Spontaneous/adaptive speaking

Spontaneous/adaptive speaking

London project - interviews

How do you start a conversation?

Small talk

Don't immediately dive into your topic questions

Start off with some small talk

Examples:

- How are you doing today?

- Lovely weather, isn't it?

- You look lovely today sir

- I like the outfit you're wearing

What do you think spontaneous/adaptive speaking means?

Spontaneous/adaptive speaking meaning

Spontaneous = spontaan

Dare to go off-script when necessary

Adaptive = aanpassend vermogen

Go with the flow of the conversation

Adaptive speaking

- Be able to adapt to the conversation

- Someone doesn't know about your topic?

- See what else this person knows

- If they bring up a different topic, continue asking

about this topic

- The speaking part is more important than your topic

What do you think 'empathize' means?

Empathize

Empathize = inleven

If someone gives an unexpected answer, what do you do?

Empathize with them

Someone gives a very short answer, what do you do?

Continue asking

Why, what, when, how

The conversation is going really badly, what to do?

Find a polite way to end the conversation and find someone else

What do you know about football?

My dog just died.

What do the interviewers in the clip do really well?

Clip interview

- They adapt to the conversation

- Ask follow-up questions

Example:

Interviewee: 'I'm about to take on some modeling jobs'

Interviewer: 'What type of modeling jobs?'

Task for today

- Pair up with someone

- One will be the interviewer, the other will be the interviewee. After 3 minutes, you switch roles

- Start with the questions you prepared for your topic

- The interviewee goes off-script and starts talking about something else

- The interviewer has to adapt to the conversation and go along with it