| Job Hunting: the harder you prepare, the luckier you become |
| WITH the “Silly Season“ looming and most people thinking about new beginnings, now is the absolute latest you can start thinking about that new position. View Article |
| Counting your skills is as easy as 1, 2, 3 |
| This is the view of Monique Rissen-Harrisberg of The Voice Clinic, a Johannesburg-based communication skills training organisation, which believes that learning how to market yourself and your unique skills is the ultimate tool in securing the job you want, and furthering your career. View Article |
| Success is all in you mind’s eye |
| Speaking in public does not come naturally for most people. However, if you aspire to success, you’ll do well to master the art of public speaking, says Monique Rissen-Harrisberg, CEO of The Voice Clinic. View Article |
| Talk the talk and look the look |
| To make it in the corporate world, an individual needs more than just the right qualifications. Research has found that it’s how you look and how you talk that forms the first impression, rather than what you say. View Article |
| Improve your public speaking |
| The crowd need not be 500 angry shareholders at an annual meeting, it can be a gathering of sales staff, a church group, or even a birthday toast to a good friend. View Article |
| Zoo function was a hoot |
| We had a ball at the Sowetan Woman’s Club Forum sponsored by Metropolitan in Tshwane, which was held at the Flamingo Restaurant at the Pretoria Zoo. View Article |
| Wide-ranging debate is good for company health |
| Leaders in the workplace strive to buils cohesion within their organisations, with the goal of developing more productive teams that work well together. View Article |
| Speak with ease in public |
| Speaking in public means you have an audience. Your aidience might be 500 angry shareholders at an annual meeting, sales staff at a meeting, a church group, or even good friends celebrating a birthday where you’ll be proposing a toast. But whatever the occasion, more often than not, they will be listening to every word you utter. View Article |
| Developing cohesiveness |
| Leaders within the workplace strive to build cohesion within their organisations with the ultimate goal of developing more productive teams that work well together. View Article |
| Looking for The Voice Clinic? |
| Are your New Years resolutions calling to you to improve yourself by improve your voice and communication skills? View Article |
| Improve your public speaking |
| Here are four of the seven tips Monique Rissen-Harrisberg, CEO of The Voice Clinic, offers to help improve your performance View Article |
| Our end-of-year celebration is going to be very special |
| End-of-year clelbrations are slowly creeping up. To end our year, the club will hold the final year forum on re-focusing your energies to face and have a better and healthier new year. View Article |
| Wide-ranging debate is good for company health |
| There’s a world of difference between cohesion and what she terms “group think“. The latter is when organisations make bad decisions because they put unanimity ahead of a good debate about the pros and cons of an issue, she explains. View Article |
| Big Events and small |
| Mercury Network incorp High Road View Article |
| Assessing Your Skills: What Makes You Different from All the Others? |
| There are many skills: skills learned through past experience and education (knowledge-based skills), skills you bring with you to any job (transferable or portable skills) and personal traits, (the things that make you who you are) all make up the total package of what an employer is buying into when they hire you. View Article |
| Beware of what they put in your head - you might not get it out. |
| Monique Rissen-Harrisberg, CEO of The Voice Clinic the nations leading voice and communication skills training company, has built a fifteen-year reputation for excellence in teaching, comments, “All too often we are called in by companies to reskill people who have received poor training from under or unqualified trainers. Poor training is costly and can result in underdevelopment and even damage to an individual psyche and future growth. View Article |
| The Voice Clinic Communication Kit - Call Centre Tips |
| Monique Rissen-Harrisberg, CEO of The Voice Clinic has identified seven personal assets most needed to make your call centre communication skills tops. View Article |
| CIO’s Must Brush Up on their Communication Skills |
| CIO’s said conveying technical information to non-technical employees is the most pressing challenge they face at work. In a poll of more than 1,400 CIO’s in the U.S., 40% said putting technical information into non-technical terms was their greatest obstacle when working with end users. View Article |
| Communicating with Compassion. |
| To master medicine is to master the essence of being a great doctor by treating not only the ailment, but the patient as well. View Article |
| Enriching Women’s Empowerment |
| Women continue to hold predominantly administrative and junior management positions, while their male counterparts still closely guard top posts. Globally the picture is much the same with only a 5% smattering of women directors - most of whom hold non-executive titles. View Article |
| Improve Your Public Speaking |
| The crowd need not be 500 angry shareholders at the annual meeting, it can be a gathering of sales staff, a church group, or even a birthday toast to a good friend. Speaking in public means that you have an audience and, more often than not, they are listening to every word you utter, which makes it important that you don’t slip up. View Article |
| It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it. |
| With 38% of every communication interaction attributed to voice quality, and only 7% attributed to content, the message is clear – it’s not what you say, but how you say it. View Article |
| Screaming Across the Abyss |
| Niggling somewhere at the back of most hearing peoples minds is the question: how do I communicate with the deaf or hard-of-hearing? What would I do if I had to do business with a deaf person? Could I just sit and chat to a hard-of-hearing friend if I don’t know sign language? How can I recant the story of my daughter’s first words to her grandfather who forgot his hearing aid? The prospect can be a daunting one resulting in both serious and funny misunderstandings. Knowing some ... View Article |