Recently I received a phone call from a young man who told me that he was soft-spoken. It took everything in my power not to tell him that speaking too softly was not his problem: his problem was that his diction was so poor I had […]
Many years ago when I first started my business, I had a most eye-opening experience that I will never forget. It happened on a consecutive Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, I had been working with a group from Nortel in voice and presentation skills. One […]
In days of old, when women wore corsets and stays, a soft-spoken voice was considered feminine and endearing. Thankfully, women’s fashions have evolved and we are not ‘bound’ either by boning or by volume. With the number of women in business today, a voice lacking in a […]