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One way to work on conversation skills (if you aren't able to work with another chapter) is to have one conversation among your entire chapter. Have everyone form two lines, facing each other, with the same number of people in each (or form two circles, one inside, one out, also facing each other). You designate one line (or circle) as the PNM, and the other will be the active sister. You tell the first sister in line to start the conversation off with a question. For example "What is your major?" The 'PNM' answers. The next sister asks another question and/or makes a statement about what the first PNM said, and then the next PNM in line would respond. See if you can get to the last 'PNM's' comment without the conversation dragging. And to make things even more interesting, before the conversation starts, you could have the people acting as the PNMs privately discuss what kind of PNM they're going to be (the shy, one word responder; the overly excited, kinda scary one; the 'I'm too good for this sorority' PNM, etc). After the exercise, and having a few conversations run down the whole line, talk about the good comments, the bad, what made things difficult about it, what came easy, etc. Then discuss ways each conversation could have been improved/come out better.