{"id":6697,"date":"2013-04-03T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2013-04-02T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T16:43:09","slug":"speakers-corner-the-last-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/04\/03\/speakers-corner-the-last-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker\u2019s Corner<\/em>: The last word"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Dale Carnegie wrote The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking,<\/i> other teachers have taken his lead in the school of public speaking.<\/p>\n

With online tutorials, and a Toastmaster\u2019s club around every corner, improving your communication skills today is as easy as, well, A-B-C.<\/p>\n

I thought I\u2019d let Carnegie\u2019s wife, Dorothy, finish this final column. Her words, like Carnegie\u2019s formulas, are as apt and predictive today as his methods are.<\/p>\n

In 1992, in an introduction to his book after his death, she wrote Carnegie\u2019s basic philosophy is \u201ceffective public speaking\u00c9 is the revealing expression of a human personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

She went on to explain, \u201cIt is through speech that we assert our distinctiveness\u00c9 it is through the quality of our speech that we best express our own individuality, our essence. When we are unable to say clearly what we mean our personality is blocked off, dimmed out and misunderstood. And now, as never before, in an atmosphere of international tensions, fears, and insecurities, we need the channels of communication among peoples kept open.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Dale Carnegie wrote The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking, other teachers have taken his lead in the school of public speaking. With online tutorials, and a Toastmaster\u2019s club around every corner, improving your communication skills today is as easy as, well, A-B-C. I thought I\u2019d let Carnegie\u2019s wife, Dorothy, finish this final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-april-3-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t