Can You Produce Transparent Language when You Speak? Sunday, Jan 24 2010
Media Resources and Multimedia Resources and Web Of Marketing 9:31 am
Speaking clearly is tricky (as long as those duties are not crucial to the job, an available place for the member of staff to go to be alone for quiet time to help relieve the difficulties of the job, rest breaks to prevent stimulus overload and exhaustion, job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules, reassignment to a different position, acquisition or modification or workplace equipment or devices, training materials or policies in baille or a simplified language, provision of readers or interpreters (disability rights center). Often times, an agreement is reached which will allow the individual to return to work on a gradual basis as their strengths and abilities increase. To increase the individual’s rate of success, the professional staff continues to follow them and provides assistance to the employer and employee as barriers and/or weaknesses are identified. For example, if the individual is having a tough time remembering what tasks to do, it may be recommended that they carry a notebook to write down what is asked of them.
Clear Speech: Practice
- Talking well is often more clever than talking cleverly. Unfortunately well-established, poor communicators legitimise bad communication. Poor communication in high places is copied by less experienced communicators who think that what they hear and see is “best practice”
- Two other processes can result in indistinct speech. With many of these examples, if you comprehend the cause, you can appreciate the solution and master the ability to converse well
Tense Voice, High Pitch
- The other end of the spectrum is a distressed voice. Some have developed a habit of speaking in a distressed voice as part of their normal conversation. It is hard to describe but when you hear someone do it, you will know it.
- What does it sound like? What does it feel like? That is a distressed voice. The solution is simple, just breathe. Breathe adequate for your speaking. Clear speech requires adequate lungs
- Speaking too fast could likewise result from nervousness or from habit. It will make speech difficult to grasp. Unlike playing a recording at a faster speed, it inhibits the ability to enunciate the words and speak clearly.
