Communication Skills Workshop Speech Analysis – Angela Lee Duckworth, Ph.D. “Grit" Every Wednesday 10PM Eastern Time Virtual classroom https://zoom.us/j/8782712588 She will say anything and change nothing" - Barrack Obama 2008 Election "She is not qualified"--Bernie Sanders January 2016 "She is the most qualified person for the job"--Bernie Sanders July 2016   Subject: RE: 17(H) paper filers conversion to electronic filing using EDGAR Contact Name, Pdf naming conventioin: number and letters only; no special charaterist, no space, no dash, MAP © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com

Workshop Schedule 1. A as in Apple 5/7/15 10:00 PM EST 2. th as in thank and th as in those 5/14/15 10:00 PM EST 3. V vs W: e.g., very well; farewell 5/21/15 10:00 PM EST 4. dg: e.g., measure, treasure, or casual 6/4/15 10:00 PM EST 5. l vs n: e.g., labor vs neighbor 6/11/15 10:00 PM EST 6. Intonation: musicality in American English 6/18/15 10:00 PM EST 7. r-controlled vowels: e.g., Girl; Word; World 6/25/15 10:00 PM EST 8. linking: e.g., good day; a lot of; because of it 7/1/15 10:00 PM EST (Wednesday given the July 4th Holiday) 9. Z: e.g., president; business 7/9/15 10:00 PM EST 10. Dropped sound: e.g., camera; favorite 7/16/15 10:00 PM EST Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC

Workshop Schedule 11. The American "t"- Recently; Clinton; Internet 7/30/15 10:00 PM EST 12. Vowel "OU" as in about, round, Brown 8/20/15 10:00 PM EST 13. Nasalize your sound - as in Banana, Amanda, Round 8/27/15 10:00 PM EST 14. Word Stress - as in classroom vs large room 9/3/15 10:00 PM EST 15. Weak form - as in big man; handbag 9/10/15 10:00 PM EST 16. Staircase Method 9/17/15 10:00 PM EST 17. Thought Group Method 9/24/15 10:00 PM EST 18. Pitch and Pace Method 10/1/15 10:00 PM EST 19. American "L" as in Yellow, Billion; Ability 10/8/15 10:00 PM EST 20. Reduced Sound - Like it, like him, like her, and like them 10/15/15 10:00 PM EST Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service http://www.cinfoshare.org/services/communications/accent-reduction © Speak to Lead, LLC © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com

Workshop Schedule 21. Ben Franklin Approach X 22. Vowel “O” as in Boss, Hot 23. Long Vowels vs Short Vowels x 24. Read a Great Letter (Zuckerberg) 25. Read a Great Letter 2 (Zuckerberg) 26. American Schwa as in Beautiful, California 27. Equal Opportunity for Education 1/13/2016 28. “I have a dream” speech analysis 1/20/2016 29. How to order a Starbucks Coffee 1/27/2016 30. Anti-Affirmative Actions 2/3/2016 Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC

Workshop Schedule 31. Long, Complicated words 2/10/2016 32. Support Peter Liang 2/17/2016 33. Support Peter Liang – Second Wave 2/24/2016 34. Support Hydrologist, Sherry Chen 3/2/2016 35. Republican Presidential Candidates 3/9/2016 36. TED talk -Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed 5/11/2016 37. TED Talk - Eight Secrets of Success 5/18/2016 38. TED talk -Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived 5/25/2016 39. Laura Trice: Remember to say thank you 6/1/2016 40. Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days 6/8/2016 Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC

Workshop Schedule 41. Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids (Part 1) 6/15/2016 42. Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids (Part 2) 6/22/2016 43. David Cameron Speech after Brexit 6/29/2016 44. Sam Berns: My philosophy for a happy life (part 1) 7/6/2016 45. Sam Berns: My philosophy for a happy life (part 2) 7/13/2016 46. Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity (Part 1) 7/20/2016 47. Donald J. Trump: RNC Acceptance Speech 2016 (1) 7/27/2016 48. Donald J. Trump: Ashburn Rally Speech 2016 8/3/2016 Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC

Workshop Schedule 49. TED’s Secrete to Great Public Speaking 8/10/16 50. “Your body language shapes who you are” by Amy Cuddy 8/17/16 51. Joe Wong at Radio-Television Correspondents Association Dinner 8/24/16 52. “Outsmart; Outlast” by Darren Tay, 2016 Toastmasters of World Champion of Public Speaking 8/31/16 53. “The power of words” by MOHAMMED QAHTANI, 2015 Toastmasters of World Champion of Public Speaking 9/7/16 54. “I See Something” by Dananjaya Hettiarachchi , 2014 World Champion of Public Speaking 9/14/16 55. “Change by Tire” by Presiyan Vasilev 2013 World Champion of Public Speaking 9/21/16 Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC

Workshop Schedule 56. “Trust is a must” by Ryan Avery 2012 World Champion of Public Speaking 9/28/16 57. “Just So Lucky” by Jock Elliott 2011 World Champion of Public Speaking 10/5/16 58. “Interview the Champion” David Henderson, 2010 World Champion of Public Speaking 10/12/16 59. “A Sink Full of Green Tomatoes” by Mark Hunter, 2009 World Champion of Public Speaking 10/17/16 60. LaShunda Rundles, a lost angle, 1969-2012. 2008 World Champion of Public Speaking 10/24/16 61. “Lesson from Fat Dad” by Randy Harvey, 2004World Champion of Public Speaking 10/31/16 62. “Never too late” by Jim Key 2003 World Champion of Public Speaking 11/7/16 63. “Ouch” by Darren LaCroix , 2001World Champion of Public Speaking 11/14/16 Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC

Workshop Schedule 64. Ed Tate Q&A – My Journey to World Champion 12/6/2016 65. “Never too late” by Jim Key 2003 World Champion of Public Speaking 12/13/2016 66. “Ouch” by Darren LaCroix , 2001World Champion of Public Speaking 12/20/2016 67. Grit by Dr. Angela Duckworth (1) 1/4/2017 Record your speaking and submit for feedback – fee based service © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC

Grit Angela Lee Duckworth Grit - The power of passion and perseverance Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Angela studies non-IQ competencies that predict success both academically and professionally. Her research populations have included West Point cadets, National Spelling Bee finalists, novice teachers, salespeople, and students. Three level of English speaking Formal Colloquial Very casual – nigh club; your intimate person © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com

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Transcript Objective: What is Grit Why Grit matters How can I change my grit Any role model in your mind has high grit? Three level of English speaking Formal Colloquial Very casual – nigh club; your intimate person © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com

Grit Development 0:11 When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools. And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests. I gave out homework assignments. When the work came back, I calculated grades. 0:35 What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students. Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores. Some of my smartest kids weren't doing so well. And that got me thinking. The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they're hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram. But these concepts are not impossible, and I was firmly convinced that every one of my students could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough. Three level of English speaking Formal Colloquial Very casual – nigh club; your intimate person

Grit Development 1:15 After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, from a psychological perspective. In education, the one thing we know how to measure best is IQ. But what if doing well in school and in life depends on much more than your ability to learn quickly and easily? 1:47 So I left the classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist. I started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings, and in every study my question was, who is successful here and why? My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out. We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition. We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods, asking which teachers are still going to be here in teaching by the end of the school year, and of those, who will be the most effective at improving learning outcomes for their students? We partnered with private companies, asking, which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs? And who's going to earn the most money? In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ. It was grit. Three level of English speaking Formal Colloquial Very casual – nigh club; your intimate person

Grit Development 3:00 Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint. 3:27 A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools. I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires, and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school. So it's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters. It's also in school, especially for kids at risk for dropping out. Three level of English speaking Formal Colloquial Very casual – nigh club; your intimate person

Grit Development 4:08 To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, "How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?" The honest answer is, I don't know. 4:31 What I do know is that talent doesn't make you gritty. Our data show very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent. 4:51 So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset." This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck, and it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed, that it can change with your effort. Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition. Three level of English speaking Formal Colloquial Very casual – nigh club; your intimate person

Grit Development 5:28 So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit. But we need more. And that's where I'm going to end my remarks, because that's where we are. That's the work that stands before us. We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned. 5:55 In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier. 6:01 Thank you. Three level of English speaking Formal Colloquial Very casual – nigh club; your intimate person

Coach Mike’s Bio 教练Mike拥有19年美国知名公司经验(包括13年以上领导层经验（四大会计师事务所及美国联邦金融监管机构），持有特许金融师(CFA)和注册会计师(CPA)执照，工商管理硕士(MBA, Smith School) Mike是Toastmasters的成员。Toastmasters是一个专门培养沟通和领导能力的国际组织，在全球116个国家拥有分支机构。Mike拥有Distinguished Toastmasters (“ DTM”) 称号 Mike在Washington, DC地区的Toastmasters演讲（励志，幽默及即兴演讲）比赛中取得过冠亚军的成绩 Coached immigrants, professionals and youths in pubic speaking, critical listening, and social intelligence for over five years Accent Reduction, Public Speaking, Job Interview and Soft Skills Training (Fee based, one-to-one coaching) (703) 606-0270 / mnie88@gmail.com / “mnie0002” on WeChat Coach Mike's website at: http://speaktolead.us Prior weeks’ workshops can be found at http://www.cinfoshare.org/services/communications/accent-reduction © Speak to Lead, LLC. http://speaktolead.us Contact Coach Mike at 703-606-0270 or mnie88@gmail.com © Speak to Lead, LLC