Today’s Exactly100: Tone of Voice when in Opposition

When you are alone in the wilderness with your point of view, when your opinion is unpopular, there is a tendency to be pricklier, choose words that will injure. You become cacophonous, which makes you even less liked, less listened to.

Rethink your tenor, this communications man humbly advises.

Check your Desired Action: do you want the recipients of your message hurt? Angry? Or is your intention to eventually win them over, even achieve a reduction in their numbers?

If your goal is to change minds, to rock their boat, you must first be invited on board, your presence welcomed. /Vincent R. Pozon