You have a voice: We have a voice!

Response to 'Do the elderly have a voice'.

We read with interest your review of advance care planning decisions with frail and older individuals. 1 As two geriatric registrar trainees we have found a spectrum of good and bad practice in hospital and variation in the opinions of patients and families towards advance care planning. It can be easier to initiate conversations about future care when the elderly have been admitted acutely, wh...

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Running Head: MOTIVATIONAL PROSODY You ‘have’ to hear this: Using tone of voice to motivate others

The present studies explored the role of prosody in motivating others, and applied selfdetermination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) to do so. Initial studies describe patterns of prosody that discriminate motivational speech. Autonomy support was expressed with lower intensity, slower speech rate and less voice energy in both motivationally laden and neutral (but motivationally primed) sentences. I...

You 'Have' to Hear This: Using Tone of Voice to Motivate Others.

The present studies explored the role of prosody in motivating others, and applied self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) to do so. Initial studies describe patterns of prosody that discriminate motivational speech. Autonomy support was expressed with lower intensity, slower speech rate and less voice energy in both motivationally laden and neutral (but motivationally primed) sentences. ...

Are you sure you have a strategy?

Executive Overview After more than 30 years of hard thinking about strategy, consultants and scholars have provided an abundance of frameworks for analyzing strategic situations. Missing, however, has been any guidance as to what the product of these tools should be—or what actually constitutes a strategy. Strategy has become a catchall term used to mean whatever one wants it to mean. Executive...