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		<title>Ready? Set? Mingle with Conversation Skills to Create Communication Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people find it a challenge to enter a conversation. Some even quake in their well shined shoes before they enter a room. Take your shy, new, singleton or fearful about your language skills self and step into the room. It may hold opportunity! Enter smiling and be natural.]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation Skills Create Communication Success</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, our conversations today take other forms than what most of us grew up with. The basics, however, still apply and together, we’ll start with verbal conversations and once we’re comfortable, we’ll swing back and apply them to written conversations. OK?]]></description>
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		<title>How to Give Constructive Criticism – Your Mindset and Your Method of Delivery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[approach criticism as feedback then it covers both what has been done right and it serves as a pathway to what can yet be accomplished – with more confidence, ease, technique and support. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Art and Advantage of Giving Compliments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you blush when you were complimented since our last communication about the perks and pluses of ‘taking’ a compliment? Which response was yours most often? Accept or deflect? You might still be a bit shy about taking a compliment!]]></description>
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		<title>The Stories Of Ordinary Heroes In Landmark Civil Rights Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Reform,” concluded Martin, “is a word that is often misused. It is change people really mean, change per se with a direction.” A step into history might be just what is needed to go forward with a plan]]></description>
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		<title>Helena Kaufman The Afro News Writer of the Year 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As columnist, profile and feature writer she has covered stories of interest to the readership at large. She joined the team soon after her arrival in Vancouver from Manitoba through a series of multicultural connections that led to her work with TAN.
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		<title>The Written Thank You –Its Art and Advantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Kaufman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that the Thank You note, once a well practiced element of social etiquette accepted as standard in our communication tool box, is often missing from our current correspondence?
The very human desire to be appreciated and acknowledged has not diminished 
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		<title>Courtesy as Conversational Capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Kaufman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[capitalizing on conversation, a skill that impacts everyone’s professional and personal potential in a business or social networking environment]]></description>
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		<title>First Annual Sage Awards and The Afro News Celebrate the 2010 Community Contribution Recognition Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invited guests gathered to honour both the roots of The Afro News and to mark the First Annual Sage Awards at the Hilton Hotel at Metrotown on January 28, 2011. The agenda included a reception where 70 members of the community hand the opportunity to mingle and also to meet the honourees. ]]></description>
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		<title>Courtesy as Conversational Capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Kaufman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have the feeling that people who have ‘the gift of the gab’ as we popularly call easy conversation skills, attract more friends and clients? Well, you would be right. Studies show that skill doubles their rate of attraction. That means that they are capitalizing on conversation, a skill that impacts everyone’s professional and personal potential in a business or social networking environment.]]></description>
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