{"id":155,"date":"2010-09-01T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2015-03-23T06:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T10:58:31","slug":"transfer-worker-from-china-gets-speaking-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/transfer-worker-from-china-gets-speaking-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Worker from China gets Speaking Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I would like to share an email I received today from Grace, one of my private coaching clients here in Toronto.\u00a0 (<i>I have her permission to share this<\/i>.)\u00a0 Before I do I just want to give you a little background on her.\u00a0 She has been transferred here from Shanghai, China, and works for a large financial institution.<br \/>\nIn addition to working with me to improve her business English (<i>which by the way is already really good<\/i>) I coach Grace on interpersonal and professional communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Grace is enrolled in a fun, dynamic Dale Carnegie course, which I fully support.\u00a0 However, I had the opportunity and ability to take her DC training further, by adding to what she was learning and advising her on how to improve her public speaking.\u00a0 (<i>There are advantages to one-to-one training over large group workshops, right?)\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Here is the unedited email I received today:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks a lot, Ric!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to share the great news with you that I won the<br \/>\nBreakthrough Award yesterday at my Carnegie&#8217;s class!<\/p>\n<p>I did restructure my story as you suggested and applied the body<br \/>\nlanguage you taught me. My classmates were very impressed and voted<br \/>\nme as the winner of the night. I think the credit goes to you.<br \/>\nWithout your help and inspiration, I would never get there. Thanks<br \/>\nso much!!!<\/p>\n<p>Grace<\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p>No Grace, thank YOU for being a hard-worker and a brave public speaker in English as a second language.\u00a0 It is not easy.\u00a0 Keep up the good work in your DC class as well as in our coaching sessions!<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, I would like to share an email I received today from Grace, one of my private coaching clients here in Toronto.\u00a0 (I have her permission to share this.)\u00a0 Before I do I just want to give you a little background on her.\u00a0 She has been transferred here from Shanghai, China, and works for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[544,538,535,533,534,537],"tags":[596,662,567],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-language","category-confidence","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-interpersonal-communications","category-professional-communications","category-speak-english-better","tag-china","tag-dale-carnegie","tag-public-speaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}