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To Win Advancement, You Need to Clean Up Any Bad Speech Habits

The Wall Street Journal's latest "Managing Your Career" piece, To Win Advancement, You Need to Clean Up Any Bad Speech Habits (subscription required), points to the growing popularity of speech coaching:
Whether you sound like an adolescent, curse at colleagues, talk tentatively or exhibit an abrasive Brooklyn accent, you risk derailing your career because you appear unpolished. [...] A growing number of businesses retain speech coaches for rising stars with speech flaws. This assistance typically costs a company between $250 and $400 an hour. A coach analyzes an individual's discourse, pinpoints shortcomings and videotapes each session. Clients take the tapes home and do daily drills in front of a mirror.

Posted by on October 5, 2004 06:35 PM |

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