Talk Business-Online™ can help individuals with pronunciation, voice, foreign accent modification, and telephone skills training. Talk Business-Online® offers real-time online courses for executive officers and employees interested in job enhancement and self- improvement.
Do you do a large amount of talking on your job? Do you experience voice fatigue or laryngitis after extensive talking or singing? Do people have a hard time understanding you because of your foreign accent? Are you aware that you do not pronounce all of the consonants correctly? YOU are worth it! Speak the best that you can! Position yourself for that job promotion!
This is one of the only places on the Internet where you may participate in actual, real-time training sessions that have been used successfully for over 30 years by a licensed speech- language pathologist. When conducted face-to-face these sessions minimally cost a client over $125 per contact hour.
This Voice Course offers techniques to help keep an individual from experiencing laryngitis or vocal fatigue when talking to customers on the telephone or in various work environments everyday, all day long. Useful for anyone who depends upon their voice to make their living, 11 techniques such as what to do instead of excessive throat clearing or coughing are taught, then 21 techniques for how to improve the speaking voice are given. A brief overview for a public speaking presentation is also outlined.
Foreign Accent Modification Course
This Foreign Accent Modification Course is designed to go beyond other available American English consonant and vowel sound materials. This more encompassing course also includes monitoring one’s rate of speech, common American English language issues such as intonation, idioms or pluralization, as well as general American telephone skills. Techniques are included to help employees remember to use what has been learned in this course to the daily work setting.
This Consonants Course presents in-depth training in all American English Consonantal sounds for the individual sounds through complex sentence activities.
Telephone Skills Course
This Telephone Skills Course gives training for people at all levels of the company's organization in proper American telephone skills and usage in the United States. Employees can listen to your customers to better convey information over the telephone about your company’s services or products.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Course
This ADA Course is designed to help employers meet the speech, language, and hearing needs of their customers and employees. Today’s diversity among staff and customers can lead to misunderstanding causing inefficiency and offense. This course focuses on informing management and employees on how to treat other employees or customers who have speech, hearing, or language difficulties.