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TSIC is the Winner of the American Resident Project’s Pitch-Off
Laurie Schloff, winner of The American Resident Project’s Connected Health ’15 Pitch-Off, discusses how The Speech Improvement Company uses emotion-sensing technology to help people overcome their anxieties with public speaking. The Connected Health ’15 Pitch-Off challenged clinicians and clinicians-in-training to pitch creative ideas that improved health through the use of emotion-sensing technologies.
Master Job Interviewing Skills
From the archives… Download interview with confidence audio-only mp3 professional studio recording. Master Job Interviewing Skills: After 911 in 2001, many clients of The Speech Improvement Company (TSIC) were out of work. To respond to this shift in the economy, TSIC created a 2 hour workshop open to the general public and free of charge to teach people how to master job interviewing skills. This public service had become popular and private presentations were requested by
TSIC 50 year anniversary video
Enjoy the video celebrating 50 years of helping people communicate!
How do best in class organizations prepare speakers
Senior Speech Coaches Laurie Schloff, Tori Hollingworth, and Dr. Ethan F. Becker are on-site at a conference and during a break got together to share the “behind the scenes” of what happens at big conferences. How do those speakers nail it? It may look like they are winging it, but very few do! How do best in class organizations prepare all of their speakers? Find out how and why on this episode of Talking about Talking!
What Google can learn from Communication Coaches
A recent New York Times Magazine article (Group Study by Charles Duhigg 2/25/16) discussed the Google Project Aristotle, a painstaking, in-depth study of what differentiates high functioning team meetings from stagnant, ineffective ones. With all due respect
Virtual Reality for the fear of public speaking
What started in 1997, as an in-house tool only for coaches to use Virtual Reality with clients is now closer than you think for the masses! Our interactive virtual reality experience is the first of it’s kind and will be available this spring! It’s not simply a panorama image with static people, but interactive people. The pro-version will allow a coach to jack-into the matrix if you will and control the avatars to create a
Is it positive to be negative at work?
Do you have to deal with an abusive colleague or boss? Someone who’s sarcasm is just a bit too much? Listen to Ethan Becker and Laurie Schloff discuss the issue.
Why do they say “Look”?
Have you noticed how many times a political candidate or commentator will say the word “look”? Why do they say that? Well, let’s zoom the picture back a little and think about this. Linguists and psychologists have introduced us what they refer to as the ‘representational systems’. They tell us that people are prone to express their feelings, attitudes, opinions and more through the use of one of three ‘representational systems’.