I'd consider doing a weekly "social-skills practice call" with anybody who wants to do some deliberate practice.<p>[1] <a href="https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min" rel="nofollow">https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min</a><p>Also, <i>How to Win Friends and Influence People</i> is the de-facto book on this topic, and it's excellent.<p>[2] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0...</a>
Simply care for others.<p>In a conversation don't ask dumb things for the sake of giving a response.<p>People are committing time and energy into socializing. Respect that. And if people don't respect your time then dump them. There is nothing wrong with that.<p>Don't make yourself a search engine or some kind of automaton. People don't want to talk to a encyclopedia. People want to connect to another human being. They want a story that they can grasp. Something that could happen to them. Understand who they are and then establish common ground.
I know it's slightly off topic but if I may presume:<p>Reflect on your social interactions. After each one take 5 minutes to replay the events and ponder what you would do better.<p>Pay attention to your audiences' body language. And learn to tune your own to suit your audience.<p>Practice. Just like you have to write code to learn to code, or do problems to learn math, you need to practice social interaction to become better at it.<p>Start with low risk interactions, like at the grocery store or waiting in line. Get good at small talk with strangers. I'm currently working on improving that myself.<p>Best of luck!
Definitely! Some of which are trained medical professionals who assist those on the autism spectrum improve their social skills. And for those new to a culture or region, there are often associations with courses and volunteers that help people develop social skills for their new region<p>Update: Also beware the category of “charisma” coaching or worse “seduction artists”, who are skewed heavily with grifters catering to the incel and pseudo-scientific rabbit hole.