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Communication Matters
November 2015 Issue 87
Exploring the Missing Links
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If you are a foreign born professional, we would like to hear from you. We are very interested in the story of how you are overcoming self-doubt and learning new skills.
We would be happy to feature your story in a future issue.
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trOur Mission is to help our clients transform their accents from a communication barrier to a charming cultural flavor using "listener friendly" speech that is as close to Standard English as possible for them.
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We encourage our clients to believe in their ability to grow and succeed, as they have already demonstrated many times in their life.
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Triangle Speech Services is the private, professional practice of Judith L. Bergman, a licensed speech-language pathologist (SLP) who specializes in foreign accent and regional dialect modification and related communication skills. I offer customized, individual tutorials to corporate-sponsored and self-enrolled individuals who speak English fluently but with moderate to severe accents that create challenges and frustrations in the workplace.
For many months I have been wondering why only a tiny percentage of individuals who open and read these "Mastering Meaning" newsletters, actually click on the embedded links. For example, Constant Contact will report to me that 96 people opened a monthly newsletter but only three of these people clicked on the link.
A"missing link" is an important piece of information that connects one event or one fact to the ones that follow. The links that we include often cite experts and authorities and allow us to share the in-depth knowledge that we discovered when researching the newsletter. So, in a "play on words" the "missing links" happened precisely because our regular readers have been missing the links.
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Examining the Links in Four Recent Newsletters
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Why Are We So Concerned About Emotions?
In the ten years that we have been working with clients who want to reduce their accents we have seen, over and over, how quickly many can swing from the extremes of overconfidence and unrealistic expectations of a "quick and easy fix" (no matter WHAT we tell them) to discouragement, self-criticism and fear of failure.
We encourage former, current and potential clients to do the following:
1. Read the material in the links.
2. Think of accent modification as being a skill like the motor skills and movement patterns that you developed in other areas such as playing soccer or playing a musical instrument. Remember how much you had to practice.
3. Acknowledge ALL the challenges you have already met and overcome, just to be where you are, doing what you are doing now in this country.
4. If you were accepted as a client, know that we believed that you could succeed IF you put in the strategic practice using our feedback and program enhancements.
- Believe in your infinite perfectibility and in your ability to grow and learn throughout your life.
- Cultivate a growth mindset!
Trust your decisions. Trust the process. Trust the instruction! Do the work and you will succeed!
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We invite you to click on Triangle Speech Services to visit our informative website. Our goal is always to provide information, inspiration and encouragement since these are essential components of any successful learning experience. If you are seriously considering enrolling yourself or an employee in an individual tutorial with us or simply want to talk to us about our programs, please contact us through the contact page of our web site. Sincerely,
Judith L. Bergman M.A. CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist and Corporate Speech Trainer
Founder & Director of Triangle Speech Services |
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