What are the characteristics of a conversation? What is the difference between a conversation and other speech events? Write in about 350 words.

Here are a few concepts so we can find common ground to have more meaningful and useful conversations:

1. Be Fully Present in the Conversation

Finding common ground requires listening; you need to be fully present in the moment. Setting boundaries that allow you to be wholeheartedly engaged in the conversation, not distracted by your phone or another problem you’re thinking about in your head changes the nature of how you listen.

2. Realize and Vocalize the Things You Agree On

It’s difficult to find common ground when we focus on the things we disagree about. But if we take a step back, we realize that despite our differences, we actually agree about more things than we disagree about.

For example, we all believe in human dignity. We all agree that what’s best for people is what’s best. We may not always agree on what’s best for people. But we can all agree that what’s best for people is what’s best.

3. Seek Understanding More than Being Right

If both people are more concerned about being right than they are understanding one another, no one wins. However, when we approach the conversation in a posture of trying to truly understand the other person, we create a path toward finding a solution. Creating the environment for a common ground conversation requires laying down your need to be right.

4. Honor the Other Person

Honor isn’t really a concept we use when talking about personal relationships anymore. And yet, we all long to feel important and valued. We must remember that conversation is about more than the topic that is discussed. When we seek to honor the other person, despite their brokenness and flaws, it allows us to not only create a more pleasant conversation, but add value to their lives.

5. Commit to Communicate with Kindness

Kindness is more than being nice or defaulting to the other person’s point of view. It’s about bringing goodness into the conversation. Even if it’s a difficult conversation with differing points of view, there is a way to be kindhearted in the way you say things or how you respond.

Difference

A conversation is communication by two or more people, or by one's self. Conversations are the ideal form of communication in some respects, since they allow people with different views on a topic to learn from each other. A speech, on the other hand, is an oral presentation by one person directed at a group. Those engaging in conversation naturally relate the other speaker's statements to themselves, and insert themselves (or some degree of relation to themselves, ranging from the replier's opinions or points to actual stories about themselves) into their replies. For a successful conversation, the partners must achieve a workable balance of contributions. A successful conversation includes mutually interesting connections between the speakers or things that the speakers know. For this to happen, those engaging in conversation must find a topic on which they both can relate to in some sense.

In a public speech -- unlike a conversation -- there is a clear distinction between the speaker and the audience. The speaker stands at the front of a room, outside space or auditorium. She often stands or sits above the audience on an elevated stage. Sometimes she uses a microphone and a podium to communicate her message. The format affords an air of legitimacy or even power to the speaker; the speaker, not the audience, decides what content to include.

Public speaking and conversation have long been linked in the American public consciousness. Nineteenth century U.S. Congressman James Winans introduced the idea that public speaking is a form of extended conversation. Winans argued that an effective speech connects with the audience on a personal level. In fact, a public speech can operate something like a conversation between the speaker and the audience -- but conversation happens informally and requires little to no advanced planning or preparation. Public speakers must abide by many more rules and guidelines.

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