{"id":8980,"date":"2012-06-28T22:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2012-06-28T22:24:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T02:24:33","slug":"how-to-make-friends-and-influence-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8980","title":{"rendered":"How to make friends and influence people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/7411627536\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7126\/7411627536_35b2bb39b2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was talked into taking an influencing skills workshop this morning.<\/p>\n<p>It was a full-day workshop when I signed up several weeks ago, and despite being genuinely worthwhile, with some good advice for resolving conflicts and dealing with people &#8212; without being either too new-agey or corporate-speaky &#8212; I&#8217;m kind of glad it got shortened to end at 12:30. I have no lack of actual work that needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I don&#8217;t regret going to the workshop. The time went by really quickly, and there were some useful exercises along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day was report writing until my brain wanted to explode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talked into taking an influencing skills workshop this morning. It was a full-day workshop when I signed up several weeks ago, and despite being genuinely worthwhile, with some good advice for resolving conflicts and dealing with people &#8212; without being either too new-agey or corporate-speaky &#8212; I&#8217;m kind of glad it got shortened &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8980\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,52],"class_list":["post-8980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}