5.3. Assess Your Verbal Skill
If your company can afford it or if you can afford it, and perhaps even if you can't, have a professional assess your verbal skill; the understanding you will gain is highly beneficial and sometimes essential. Coaches by the hundreds, perhaps thousands, are available to do this. Let me suggest a very simple "do-it-yourself" method to get started. You can make it more elaborate thereafter if you feel it's necessary.
Buy a handheld microcassette tape or digital audio recorder. Audio voice notes and cell phone recorders will not work, as the recording time is too limited. Get in the habit of taking this machine to meetings and turning it on. (Be sure to tell everyone affected by what you are doing, and get their permission. ...
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