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	<title>A PowerPhrase a Week &#187; Power Phrase Quick Tip</title>
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	<description>By Meryl Runion and SpeakStrong, Inc.</description>
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		<title>Preemptive dismissals: embrace a point before you argue with it</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/08/03/preemptive-dismissals-embrace-a-point-before-you-argue-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great way to spoil a movie is to pick it apart while you watch it. A great way to spoil a conversation is to argue with points before they&#8217;ve been made. It&#8217;s called being a wet blanket. It&#8217;s also called preemptive dismissal. That&#8217;s why brainstorming and evaluation are two different functions. And why movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soul sells books. I say that&#8217;s great news.</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/06/03/clarissa-estes-says-soul-sells-books-better-than-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard an author say that if you study best-selling study book titles, you will see more than half  are about soul in one way or another in just about every category . You can&#8217;t even say that about sex. So it would appear that soul sells better than sex. Interesting, because it seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scary voice mails. Consider yours from the receiver perspective.</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/04/28/scary-voice-mails-consider-yours-from-the-receiver-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/04/28/scary-voice-mails-consider-yours-from-the-receiver-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This voice mail wasn&#8217;t as scary as the message the FBI agent left. I didn&#8217;t know for days that he was calling to hire me to speak. And it wasn&#8217;t as scary as the IRS agent&#8217;s message. She called to hire me too.She might have mentioned the order of her business in her voice mail. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q clarity &#8211; a surprisingly simple way to enhance team email communication</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/04/24/q-clarity-a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-enhance-team-email-communication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/04/24/q-clarity-a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-enhance-team-email-communication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q clarity. It&#8217;s one of the new codes my team and I decided to implement in our emails. We&#8217;ll be sharing our codes and complete clarity covenant soon, but for now, I&#8217;ll share this one. It&#8217;s deceptively simple. Here it it. When we send an email with a question, we put a Q in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>38,000,000 plus hits on tech blog illustrates a New (Rule) Dynamic of Communication</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/12/24/38000000-plus-hits-on-a-tech-blog-illustrates-new-communication-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/12/24/38000000-plus-hits-on-a-tech-blog-illustrates-new-communication-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Is it me?&#8221; I wondered as I tried to find properties in Word 2007. It was simple in Word 2003. Help was characteristically unhelpful. So once again I conduct a Google search to learn what I thought should be straightforward information. Misery loved company, so I was pleased to discover that the blogs were full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Code white, change and the willingness to see things as they are</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book SpeakStrong divides the Speak Strong process into five steps. The first step is to be willing to see things as they are. I call it: Commit to code white. That comes from a process that some groups of nurses apply, where if a nurse notices someone is verbally abusive to another nurse, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inner city youth: listen with heart and quit when you&#8217;re ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/12/14/inner-city-youth-listen-with-heart-and-quit-when-youre-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke to a group of inner city youth last week. Actually, I listened a lot too. And I related from my own experience when a couple of people&#8217;s well-intended words didn&#8217;t quite come out as they had hoped. &#8220;Misty,&#8221; a teacher, mentioned she was glad the group was being exposed to the information, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feedback Tip: Take the gift, do not drink the poison</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/09/01/feedback-tip-take-the-gift-do-not-drink-the-poison/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/09/01/feedback-tip-take-the-gift-do-not-drink-the-poison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most every criticism someone could make about you is likely to contain at least an iota of truth. It&#8217;s also likely to contain at least an iota of projection, judgment or the offer&#8217;s own issues. The truth is the gift. The projection is the poison. Take the gift and leave the poison behind. The part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PowerPhrase Quick Tip: Yes and&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/08/21/powerphrase-quick-tip-yes-and/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/08/21/powerphrase-quick-tip-yes-and/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An acquaintance who does improv acting told me the key idea of improv is responding to what came before with yes, and&#8230; In other words, one never negates but expands instead. What a great approach to communication of all kinds!]]></description>
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		<title>Updateded quick tip: Only talk what you walk</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/08/19/quick-tip-if-you-are-not-walking-it-dont-talk-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2009/08/19/quick-tip-if-you-are-not-walking-it-dont-talk-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received two emails from female associates with sister in the title. I guess it&#8217;s girlfriend day. One invited me to an event she was promoting, but also included a lovely note. The other was from a friend who had canceled our last three attempts to get together at the very last minute. The [...]]]></description>
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