Overview

Your Voice Is Your Business combines the latest in voice research and technology with the most powerful and state-of-the-art presentation skills and methods. The result is an integrated and comprehensive approach to connecting the technically-based aspects of voice production with an applied, skill-based grasp of interpersonal effectiveness. The book will serve as both a practical handbook and a fully realized resource on human vocal production in real world settings. Relevant techniques of positioning, gesture, and paraverbals (non-verbals) are incorporated in the study of successful voice presentation.

An accompanying DVD illustrates the concepts and corrective measures in an incisive and powerful way. Readers will find references to relevant scenes in the DVD throughout the text. The DVD allows readers to review and practice elements being discussed.

Audience

Primary Subject: Voice
Secondary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Voice and Voice Therapy
Audience Level: Professional

• Preface
• Introduction: The Search for Your Voice
  • I. A Troubling Case
  • II. The Clinical World
  • III. The Training and Development World
  • IV. The Dual Approach
  • V. How to Read This Book
• SECTION I: A HUMAN CONNECTION
  • 1. A People Finds Its Voice
    I. Beginnings: Voice to Speech
    II. To Voice a Word
    III. To Voice a Thought
    IV. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
  • 2. Learning Voice
    I. Vocal Studies: From Rhetoric to Laryngology and Back
    II. Mainstream Education Loses its Voice: Practice Breaks from Science
    III. Results of Vocal Neglect
    IV. Reinstating Vocal Awareness
    V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
  • 3. The Point of It All
    I. Communication as an Act of Connection Through Meaning
    II. Modes of Connection: Using the Five Senses
    III. Common Meaning: A Successful Connection
    IV. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
• SECTION II: VOICING INTENTION
  • 4. Verbals and Paraverbals
    I. The Two Grand Categories
    II. Syntax: Speech and Parts of Speech
    III. Inflected Syntax: Meaning of Sounds, Sounds of Meaning
    IV. The Other Senses and Semantic Enrichment
    V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
  • 5. Why You Transmit—The Five Intentions
    I. Self-Affirmation
    II. Small Talk
    III. Information Exchange
    IV. Persuasion/Direction
    V. Feeling
    VI. Multiple Intentions
    VII. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
• SECTION III: EXPLORING THE FIVE INTENTIONS
  • 6. Establishing Yourself
    I. Keys to Effectiveness in Self-Affirmation and Small Talk
    II. Putting It into Your Voice and Putting Your Voice into It
    III. The Showroom
    IV. Completing the Connection
    V. Keys to Effectiveness in Self-Affirmation and Small Talk
  • 7. Informing Them
    I. Keys to Effectiveness in Information Exchange
    II. The Voice of Authority
    III. The Learning Center
    IV. The Informative Connection
    V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
  • 8. Persuading Them
    I. Keys to Effectiveness in Persuasion and Direction
    II. Voicing Conviction
    III. A Climate That Persuades
    IV. The Persuasive Connection
    V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
  • 9. Moving Them
    I. Keys to Effectiveness in Addressing Emotion
    II. Putting Feeling in Your Voice
    III. The Climate That Feels Just Right
    IV. The Feeling Connection
    V. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
  • 10. Your Most Compelling Connection
    I. Your Distinctive Sound
    II. Connecting with Your Authentic Self
    III. Connecting with Your Credible Self
    IV. What Credibility Is Not
    V. Proxy Credibility
    VI. What Credibility Is
    VII. The Voice of Credibility
    VIII. Payoffs of Credibility
    IX. The Four Pillars of Credibility
    X. Review of Key Ideas and Practical Suggestions
• Index

About The Authors

Orlando Barone

Educator, lecturer, trainer, and author Orlando R. Barone has for almost thirty years designed, developed, and delivered internationally acclaimed training in self-presentation and interpersonal effectiveness. His clients include organizations as diverse as global pharmaceutical and chemical firms, world class computer companies, Ivy League universities like Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Navy. He has tutored top executives in the effective use of voice and gesture through the Intensive Coaching method and the video-assisted programs he originated. Barone has written extensively on interpersonal effectiveness for national periodicals, trade publications, and training books. He has instructed at the graduate level in training and development and is on the adjunct faculty of Villanova and Harvard Universities.

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Cari Tellis, Ph.D.

Dr. Cari M. Tellis is a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist. Dr. Tellis did her voice training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Voice Center and has clinical experience in acute and long-term acute care hospitals. She has worked with major firms as a corporate speech-language consultant. She consults for a thriving voice therapy practice, Valley ENT, in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Dr. Tellis is an assistant professor in the speech-language pathology department at College Misericordia, where her areas of specialization include voice, laryngeal physiology, laryngeal muscle anatomy and biochemistry, voice and speech science, and counseling. She has authored and co-authored numerous presentations in voice science and fluency at international, national, and state conferences, as well as presented her research at the American Laryngological Association’s national conference and published her research in the Annals of Otolaryngology. She is also a reviewer for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

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