Your Voice is Your Business

Description

Your Voice Is Your Business combines the latest in voice research and technology with the most powerful and state-of-the-art presentation skills and methods. The result is an integrated and comprehensive approach to connecting the technically-based aspects of voice production with an applied, skill-based grasp of interpersonal effectiveness. The book will serve as both a practical handbook and a fully realized resource on human vocal production in real world settings. Relevant techniques of positioning, gesture, and paraverbals (non-verbals) are incorporated in the study of successful voice presentation.

An accompanying DVD illustrates the concepts and corrective measures in an incisive and powerful way. Readers will find references to relevant scenes in the DVD throughout the text. The DVD allows readers to review and practice elements being discussed.

Table of contents

· Preface

Introduction: The Search for Your Voice

· I. A Troubling Case
· II. The Clinical World
· III. The Training and Development World
· IV. The Dual Approach
· V. How to Read This Book

SECTION I: A HUMAN CONNECTION

· 1. A People Finds Its Voice
I. Beginnings: Voice to Speech
II. To Voice a Word
III. To Voice a Thought
IV. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

· 2. Learning Voice
I. Vocal Studies: From Rhetoric to Laryngology and Back
II. Mainstream Education Loses its Voice: Practice Breaks from Science
III. Results of Vocal Neglect
IV. Reinstating Vocal Awareness
V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

· 3. The Point of It All
I. Communication as an Act of Connection Through Meaning
II. Modes of Connection: Using the Five Senses
III. Common Meaning: A Successful Connection
IV. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

SECTION II: VOICING INTENTION

· 4. Verbals and Paraverbals
I. The Two Grand Categories
II. Syntax: Speech and Parts of Speech
III. Inflected Syntax: Meaning of Sounds, Sounds of Meaning
IV. The Other Senses and Semantic Enrichment
V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

· 5. Why You Transmit—The Five Intentions
I. Self-Affirmation
II. Small Talk
III. Information Exchange
IV. Persuasion/Direction
V. Feeling
VI. Multiple Intentions
VII. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

SECTION III: EXPLORING THE FIVE INTENTIONS

· 6. Establishing Yourself
I. Keys to Effectiveness in Self-Affirmation and Small Talk
II. Putting It into Your Voice and Putting Your Voice into It
III. The Showroom
IV. Completing the Connection
V. Keys to Effectiveness in Self-Affirmation and Small Talk

· 7. Informing Them
I. Keys to Effectiveness in Information Exchange
II. The Voice of Authority
III. The Learning Center
IV. The Informative Connection
V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

· 8. Persuading Them
I. Keys to Effectiveness in Persuasion and Direction
II. Voicing Conviction
III. A Climate That Persuades
IV. The Persuasive Connection
V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

· 9. Moving Them
I. Keys to Effectiveness in Addressing Emotion
II. Putting Feeling in Your Voice
III. The Climate That Feels Just Right
IV. The Feeling Connection
V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

· 10. Your Most Compelling Connection
I. Your Distinctive Sound
II. Connecting with Your Authentic Self
III. Connecting with Your Credible Self
IV. What Credibility Is Not
V. Proxy Credibility
VI. What Credibility Is
VII. The Voice of Credibility
VIII. Payoffs of Credibility
IX. The Four Pillars of Credibility
X. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions

· Index