Recently, I read the ‘Energy is 70% of a job – if you don’t have it, be nice’ quote in a book I picked up in a bookstore. Maybe upon reading it, you laughed as I did.Continue reading
Telling Fib is Universal
Obama’s speaking technique
This week the ABC’s Kerry O’Brien interviewed Barack Obama. What strikes one about Obama is his sheer consistency of high performance listening and speech communication.Continue reading
Why your voice sounds different on tape
Your voice sounds different on audio-tape (or when you listen to your voice mail greeting et al) for the following reasons:
When you speak, you hear your voice through two channels – through the air (air conduction) and through the Continue reading
A surprising technique from a jazz pianist to make you’re better speaker
A reporter once asked Thelonious Monk, the late jazz pianist, to explain why he could make such a unique sound on the piano. Monk pointed to the piano and said something to the effect; ‘There aren’t any extra keys there so it can’t be that . . . but when you Mean, a note enough it will sound different – you’ve got to choose the notes you Really Want to Mean’.
Similarly, in your speech communication, you have to choose a word you really want to mean – Continue reading