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. Read more…
April 24, 2010 by nick | 20 views | Comments (0)
April 17, 2010 by michael | 36 views | Comments (1)
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. Read more…
tags | connecting with people, consistency in communication, improve watching Obama You tube clips
April 9, 2010 by michael | 146 views | Comments (2)
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 Read more…
tags | air conduction, bone conduction, sounds, tape, voice
April 1, 2010 by michael | 44 views | Comments (0)
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 – Read more…
tags | communication, memorable, speaking