Having a stutter in the corporate world?
Hello Everyone,
I am currently majoring in finance and having a career in corporate finance has always been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid. I have a moderate stutter, although it can be severe at times and have been going to speech therapy to improve my fluency for some time now. I wanted to know if anyone has met or currently knows someone who stutters in finance. Any tips, techniques or stories would be helpful as well. thanks, guys.
If you can, for your electives, take a public speaking and interpersonal communication class. The focus of the class would teach you the basics of communications, and will help you in huge amounts if you take into account the lessons.
When you engage others, think first of the words, breathe in a little slower to enunciate the words piece by piece. This will offset the stutter you have, and ease your nervousness (if you get nervous easily).
The old saying goes - think before you speak. This follows the same idea. As you practice and go though therapy, the practice of slowly enunciating the words would play.
You can work on the social queues down the line later on (eye contact, standing straight, etc.) after you get the basics down.
-From a guy who used to stutter quite often when I was younger.