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The Bottom Line: Re-stating Your Value

Here’s food for thought: when you meet with senior management in your organization, do you know what to say? More importantly, do you know how to say it and when to say it? If not, then you may be selling yourself short when it comes to stating your value to the organization. Sure it’s great to get a company to help take care of the HR, workplace injury and other sections of the company but this won’t help increase the value of yourself if you keep selling yourself short.

For junior executives in particular, learning how to speak to and with upper management is an invaluable skill. In fact, communication skills coaching in this precise area is one of the most frequent requests from Accent On Business clients.

Getting the results you want in the boardroom and similar settings can mean the difference between being […]

2022-04-22T08:33:23-04:00By Ellen Dunnigan|Categories: Leadership Presence, Professional Communication, Public Speaking|Tags: articulate clearly, business, conversation, delivering a speech, executive communication, executive presence, interview, professional communication advisors, professional communication advisory firm, professional communications, Public Speaking, public speaking advisors, speaking to your boss, vocal quality, voice help, voice problem|Comments Off

Gaining Credibility and Understanding

Speaking English well opens doors, gives you credibility, and fosters your success.

Your success as a speaker of English is our success, too.

We’ll give you the coaching you need.

We offer:

Accent Modification

Advanced English for foreign nationals

Regional US dialect modification

– examples: southern drawl, Boston dialect, eastern region dialect

2022-04-22T08:33:23-04:00By Ellen Dunnigan|Categories: Accent Modification|Tags: accent help, Accent Modifcation, Accent Reductions, speach, voice help|Comments Off

It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It

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We all use “credibility detectors” when listening to someone talk to us. These sensors in the brain are activated by tone of voice and body language, not words. They give us important information about the speaker’s sincerity, integrity, and emotional intelligence. Some people equate this to the “gut-level hunch” we often sense. When kids listen to adults speak, they listen to the “strength” of the message for cues about whether or not the adult means what he or she is saying.

Do you “say it like you mean it”? Women often are not taken seriously for one of three reasons. First, her voice may be too quiet, making her sound unsure and non-authoritative. Second, she is too high-pitched, making her sound like a little girl or a cheerleader. Or third, she puts more inflection at the end of a sentence, making her sound […]

2022-04-22T08:33:24-04:00By Ellen Dunnigan|Categories: Professional Communication|Tags: business, communication, conversation, interview, interviews, Public Speaking, technique, vocal quality, voice help, voice problem|Comments Off