DOUBLE DAIS – WHY US? Why take a 6-hour online course? In these videos, I’ll give you all the valuable, firsthand, nuts-and-bolts information you need to be a citizen activist or elected official who gets RESULTS. 1. You’ll find out how to speak clearly and...
Whodunnit? Indirect speech has its positive use as a cooperative way to communicate —usually a good thing – and often effective on the dais or from the lectern to avoid detracting from the core message by pointing fingers. Government staff reports are full of indirect...
“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs it sucks the meat out of the egg and leaves it an empty shell.” President Theodore Roosevelt, St. Louis, Missouri May 31, 1916 Weasel words are the...
Political activists had been protesting for years that there were problems at our sewer district. It took the efforts of over one hundred concerned citizens, and three whistleblowers, but once we had the report from the nation’s renowned government fraud investigator,...
