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November 06, 2006

Charismatic Communication: A Lesson for Erring Ummers - Kicking the Habit of Errs and

Umming and erring are part of what is called powerless speech: poweless in the sense that if the umms and errs appear in a patterned way the audience is likely to notice the pattern, become increasingly agitated about it and become much less focussed on the content and message of the speech. The are numerous remedies proffered by professionals to overcome this habit and many of them reinforce the behaviour rather than allow erring ummers to kick it. In this article Desmond Guilfoyle offers a simple but powerful technique to banish patterned umms and errs

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Posted by Doug at November 6, 2006 09:33 AM