{"id":1196,"date":"2017-10-09T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2017-10-16T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T16:39:38","slug":"connection-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/connection-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection, Conversation and Hot Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our storytelling theme for this month is on honing and delivering your elevator pitch to<br \/>\nengage a potential donor. The main components for accomplishing these are, essentially,<br \/>\nthe same components in effective communication. Be prepared with a personally<br \/>\ncompelling message. Be present in the moment. Be interested in what the other person<br \/>\nis saying. Listen.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to listen to three voices with deep experiences in verbal communication and making connections. One of them even has a way to make your voice feel rich and warm like hot chocolate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1184\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1184 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ted_conversation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ted_conversation.jpg 600w, https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ted_conversation-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celeste Headlee, Julian Treasure, Kare Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1196-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Barkada_17-10-16_Conversations.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Barkada_17-10-16_Conversations.mp3\">http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Barkada_17-10-16_Conversations.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>You can also read my latest blog entry <i>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/elevator-pitch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The best elevator pitch is about you.<\/a>\u201d<\/i><br \/>\nIt forms a good pairing with this podcast.\u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our storytelling theme for this month is on honing and delivering your elevator pitch to engage a potential donor. The main components for accomplishing these are, essentially, the same components in effective communication. Be prepared with a personally compelling message. Be present in the moment. Be interested in what the other person is saying. Listen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/connection-conversation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Connection, Conversation and Hot Chocolate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[138,2,139,132],"tags":[48,66,68,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}