This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...Vs." 1. Cultivate a pleasant voice. If you don't know your faults in this particular, get a friend or teacher to criticize and help you. A harsh, rasping voice will finally irritate the persons you have to deal with into a state of general and acute antagonism to you which they may not be able to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...Vs." 1. Cultivate a pleasant voice. If you don't know your faults in this particular, get a friend or teacher to criticize and help you. A harsh, rasping voice will finally irritate the persons you have to deal with into a state of general and acute antagonism to you which they may not be able to explain, or which they may attribute to some deep-seated defect in your personality. An unduly loud voice will misrepresent you, seeming to express an amount of egotism and bumptiousness of which you are not guilty. A level monotone is fatal to effectiveness. The soothing qualities of such a voice may be an asset if you are a nurse; but in most other businesses you need variety and flexibility of voice. Don't talk through your nose. This defect is so easily cured that the failure to cure it is justly set down as an unpardonable failure. A high, excited treble will create an unbearable nervous tension in an entire office force. A low society murmur is not the ideal for a business girl to set herself; a quiet, but clear and crisp enunciation that carries to the other end of the telephone wire, and that causes the hearer no effort in listening, is a better ideal. Such a voice need not be loud--its effectiveness is independent of volume of sound. A deep, quiet chest tone, produced like the singing voice, as it were, from the diaphragm seems best in all vocal transactions. 2. Americans have practically only one gesture, or rather gesticulation, and that is the gesture of pointing. This can become very irritating and is in many circles considered ill-bred. The dramatic gesture that should accompany public speaking should be made a matter of study--unless, indeed, the student has the dramatic temperament, and uses instinctively eloquent and...
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