{"id":120,"date":"2007-03-10T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/jingliu\/2007\/03\/communication-skills\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:48:04","slug":"communication-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/2007\/03\/10\/communication-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the great fortune to be involved in two once-in-life-time events this year, one in early January and one in early March.<\/p>\n

Besides being grateful to my very supportive and forward-thinking manager, I firmly believe that being an active Toastmasters member helped me in accomplishing these two tasks successfully.
\nToastmasters activities not only improved my communication skills, it also provided me with confidance and poise. Most importantly, I have FUN at club meetings each and every time.<\/p>\n

To find a club that is in your area, please go to: http:\/\/www.toastmasters.bc.ca\/clubsearch.php <\/a><\/p>\n

You may be surprised to know there are many clubs near where you work and\/or where you live!! If you are not laughing or smiling while attending a club meeting, then you should look around and try another club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the great fortune to be involved in two once-in-life-time events this year, one in early January and one in early March. Besides being grateful to my very supportive and forward-thinking manager, I firmly believe that being an active Toastmasters member helped me in accomplishing these two tasks successfully. Toastmasters activities not only improved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}