Voices silence

Use dialogue strategies that provide space for voice, silence, and listening. 

M. P. Bell, M. F. Ozbilgin, T. A. Beauregard, O. Siirgevil (2011), Voice, silence, and diversity in 21st century organizations Strategies for inclusion... 

His voice was urgent, shaking with hope and desire. Nonetheless, young men are foolish, and I would not be the victim of his folly. I put out my hand and raised him. Sire, you cannot kneel to a subject. You do me more honor than is proper to either of our estates, and I am silenced. I know not what to say. ... 

I cannot speak. I look away and drink a little more, and he does not break the silence. It s quiet tonight, I say, when I can command my voice again. 

I need to stay in touch with who I am deep down. The real me. The voice behind the noise. That wonderful silence inside that is a true joy. For me, meditation is the way to get to my joyful spirit. I meditate for twenty minutes twice a day. 

From the heart of the God-nourished silence that follows, you hear a Voice speak Let the White Brilliance descend ... 

A light tap upon the door, but the man by the stove was too much occupied with those phantoms of the past to pay heed to it. The door opened quietly and a priest stepped into the room. The man s gaze shifted from the vacant chair to the black-robed figure standing by the door and looking at him in puzzled amazement. Phantoms of the past Yes, indeed, and here was one more come to torment him and to mock at him. The two watched each other in silence for a moment. Then, the man crouching in his chair by the fire found voice at last ... 

To set the tone, the film opens on a dark screen. There is a lengthy silence. Slowly, eerie music swells up and an Orson Welles type voice mechanically intones On this very desert... etc. Gradually, a white wisp of smoke becomes visible on the left, growing larger as it spreads across the screen. 

It was Bernardo s cannon voice that prevailed. He bellowed for silence and got it. 

Why return to Paraiso Aphrodite was saying, her voice pitched low, as she glanced at Padorin striding by in doomed silence. We re not done here, Trix, I was hoping for your help. ... 

Noise actually drives me more crazy. Sometimes the silence can be very quiet indeed, but I only rarely have a problem with that. When that happens, I put on my favorite songs and sing along at the top of my voice. Isolation and the accompanying silence are very pure and you can become very in tune to yourself, your feelings and your experiences. 

Cough A cough is a sudden and noisy expulsion of air from the lungs to keep the respiratory passages free of irritating material. -5 penalty on any attempts to perform Skills or Feats that require stealth, silence or a clear voice, such as Move Silently or Intimidate. Verbal spell casting is not possible. 

It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was no sound only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. 

This madman, then, is the first mortal to recognize Jesus true identity. But this identification, Jesus feels, is premature. He commands silence But Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent, and come out of him And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. ... 

Violence or seduction on the part of governments, priestly intolerance and even national prejudices had all lost their deadly power to silence the voice of truth, and nothing could now protect the enemies of reason or the oppressors of freedom from a sentence to which the whole of Europe would soon subscribe. 

Bowen, E, Blackmon, K (2003). Spirals of silence The dynamic effects of diversity on organizational voice. Journal of Management Studies, 40, 1393-1417. 

Figure 4.1 illustrates the nature of a job s safety risk profile, and what an employee can potentially encounter when they begin a new job. Education, experience, and training can prepare a new employee for normal and known safety risks. However, a number of other factors can add safety risks to a job. Figure 4.1 shows a number of these factors equipment safety issues, task assignment, workload and performance requirements, scheduling and work hours, environmental variance, co-worker behavior, supervision, and employee silence and safety voice. These... 

If exiting employees are not voicing safety concerns, then the organization may not have the necessary knowledge required to prompt corrective action, and the new employee (even those with realistic expectations of the normal safety risk profile for the job type) may be about to enter a job with an unacceptable level of safety risk (beyond those normally associated with the type of work). Thus, new employee safety will be enhanced if a workplace has a safety voicing culture, where employees freely share safety information, and this is supported and reinforced by both management and co-workers. In contrast, a new employee that enters a workplace which has a silence culture, or has employees that want to voice about safety but feel they cannot for some reason, can be exposed to more safety risk than is necessary. 

Employee silence and safety voicing Does the organization have a safety voicing culture Regularly assess safety voicing... 

Understand new employee initial behavior Manage new employee behavior and alert co-workers to Information seeking behavior Desire to change role/tasks Employee silence/voicing Random acts of helping... 

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