Your Speaking Power

Funny thing about us humans, we keep forgetting that to a great extent we make our our world. We’re social creatures who need each other, need to connect, converse, interact. Though we engage in these activities daily, we often don’t like the results we get. So we conduct study after study to find out what’s [...]

You may never have looked at it this way before, but like it or not, your voice is your public relations agent. Listeners decide on your state of mind, your health, your social and educational background, and even your attitude – mostly from the way you sound. If you doubt this, think of someone you [...]

“How do you see yourself? “may seem a strange question–especially when the topic is communication, but strange as it may see, communication begins with how you see you. It’s important to understand how we see ourselves because it affects our actions and our speaking. If you’re a person who considers yourself dependable, then when you [...]

In March of this year, after reading comments sent to websites, I wrote in “How Not to Persuade”: “As I quickly scan the responses to the latest political news story, I am saddened. Why? Because people’s responses to the news (of this legislation) were filled with name calling and labeling. Reading those comments was like [...]

Psychologists from St. Louis’ Washngton U and the University of Arizona wanted to know if there was much difference in the conversations of people who are generally happy, as opposed to those who generally unhappy. They set up an experiment to discover what differences, if any, exist between the two groups by having volunteers wear [...]

We live in a noisy age: telephones ring, radios blare and advertising clutters our landscapes. It sometimes seems like every body in the world is clamoring for our attention; everyone has something to sell. Our mail and email boxes are filled with sales pieces, our ears with the constant din of television promotions, and our [...]

Do you know Earl? He’s a nice guy, the kind of fellow you don’t mind listening to when you have lots of time. If you just stand there, Earl will give you the blow-by-blow of his latest project or catastrophe or nightmare…as your mind wanders… You probably don’t talk as much as Earl, but do [...]

Humans have the advantage (I think it’s an advantage!) of words to express what they want and need. And yet, when I think of the first time I saw Nelson, I understood clearly that he was very hungry–simply by the way he meowed. Of course I didn’t know his name or have any idea of [...]