RE: What should I wear for a phone interview? LONG

["Susan W. Gallagher" <SGallagher -at- akonix -dot- com>]

> ...Something that has never been
> discussed which I find invaluable is knowing how to speak. Not
> knowing how to talk, but to speak. You speak during review sessions.
> You speak when you are trying to convince someone(s) to give you
> budget. You speak in conference calls.
> 
> Has anyone had specific training for this and what was it? I for one,
> during HS, was involved in debating and other competition speaking
> engagements between schools. Anyone else? How about Toastmasters?
> Sales training (me...18 years sales)

I took the usual speech classes in HS and college, but while I 
understood the concepts, execution was a problem because I was
always white-knuckle stage fright.  Then I got a job as a corporate
trainer and I knew I had to do something to get over it.

My answer was to take several semesters of a voice (singing) class
at the local JC at night. The class was structured so that we all 
warmed up together at the beginning, but after the break each 
student went up on stage and performed a solo while the rest of
the class critiqued the performance.

Doesn't bother me much to get up in front of an audience any more.

-Sue Gallagher

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