I’m about to go running through my neighborhood because I am so happy to be finished with this project. I wonder if I can get any little kids to run behind me, cheering me on…
Of course, this project is my training for some bruising battles ahead. Just like Rocky, I’m totally up to the task.
Have you ever felt like this after finishing a daunting project? How do you celebrate?
I’d love to hear from you!
-Tina
Click the title to read this awesome blog post by Jayme Soulati as part of the Mentor Me PR Series. She uses a GREAT video, Faith Salie’s CBS News clip, to demonstrate the horrible, horrible speech pattern known as vocal fry. (The second video just seems like click bait.)
I want to get the word out about Vocal Fry because it is the most hideous assault on the ears since the jack hammer. It seems to be contagious as well because I’ve caught myself doing it when I’m around other people who do it. YIKES!
“This American Life,” and one or two reporters on “All Things Considered,” have vocal fry and I will turn off the radio/podcast the minute I hear it. You can sound serious and intelligent without vocal fry. Vocal fry makes people sound pretentious, add in a few likes and a slow eye-roll and you come across like an airhead. Yes, that is how I really feel about it.
Whatever it takes, eliminate vocal fry. It could very well cost you a job. In this blog post, Jayme gives great advice to listen to your own voice – particularly on the phone because that’s where a lot one-on-one contact will be done.
Do you know people who vocal fry?
I’d love to hear from you!
-Tina
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It takes practice to see criticism as the gift it is.
The first thing you need to do look at criticism from a little different perspective. This of it as an opportunity. It means that there has been miscommunication or there is a genuine screw up. Both of these things need to be rectified so if someone takes their precious time to let you know about the problem – be glad.
I think of it as someone telling me I have something green in my teeth. Someone who likes you will tell you while someone who doesn’t care about you won’t. Granted, you may not get called names or cussed at when they tell you that there’s something in your teeth, but the favor is still there.
Let me provide a recent example. I work on a fundraising event called Holiday Market. I’ve purchased advertising on Facebook to hit all the women in the area. One of the women in the area was kind enough to leave an unflattering post that was along the lines of “I haven’t supported you since you changed your name to Holiday Market.” Alluding to the fact that we went all PC and changed from Christmas Market to Holiday Market. It’s always been Holiday Market.
This is where charm and grace took over and I thanked her for the post. I didn’t correct her or get defensive. I simply explained the reason we have our name and that I hoped she would join us for the best shopping experience of her life.
I used the opportunity to explain who we were, why we did what we did, that we love her and her input and that we want her in our family. Will she come to our event? Who knows. I do know that she can’t honestly tell her friends and family that we are rude and hate Christmas. Other people who read the exchange will see our organization as kind, attentive and thoughtful. You never know who is watching on social media.
Even if someone cusses you and your mother, stay cool. This could be just the chance you’ve needed to change a broken process; to update outdated information; to find out the way you do things is totally jacked up and needs improvement.
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I’m not saying it doesn’t suck and sometimes people are mean and life isn’t fair, BUT if you try at some point in the criticism to find the nugget of gold in the pile of bullsh*t you could come out smelling like a rose.
How do you handle criticism?
I’d love to hear from you.
-Tina
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