- Name
- Dr. Virginia Callens Gregg
- Tagline
- Discover how you think; restyle what you say.
- Credentials
- PhD - Communication Arts and Sciences
Virginia Gregg, PhD, taught Communication Arts & Sciences for over five decades and speaks to audiences in the US and abroad. With both humor and sincerity, she explains the importance of understanding communication theory so you can avoid traps in real life speech. She has designed games and exercises to expose how theories are exemplified in conversations, how unawareness can create problems, and how to adjust and manage interactions for better understanding and cooperation.
Dr. Gregg offers presentations and workshops with equal vigor and success. She talks about "all things communication" including discovering thought patterns, deflecting arguments, and nonverbal behavior.
Her talks meld seamlessly with listeners' needs, problems, and successes. Virginia Gregg speaks to medical professionals, construction workers, CEOs, dancers, educators, and others, with equal finesse and creativity. Be ready to laugh, cringe, and smack your head as she reveals our Obvious speech behaviors – to which we’ve likely been Oblivious.
Presentations
These are example talks for Virginia Callens Gregg
As one example of long term influence, I tell a story about when I met a man and mentally reviewed my Dad's list of cautions as I was asked questions about a possible date. (Humorous results)
My point is made when I reveal that I was 74 at the time of this meeting.
I exemplify how the most unlikely things we say and hear can affect lives forever, and can affect one's personal image and resultant communiction style forever.
I talk about R.O.T standing for Rule of Thumb. (I mention some of the history.) Then I talk about how we're taught the Rules of Thumb in school: How to spell, do math, sing, read, etc. We must know these rules, apply them, explain them, are tested on them, and graded on them. But once we are on the job, if we live by these rules we will ROT in the business. Instead, we have to know the rules well enough to know how to break them, and when we break them with finesse, with creativity, and within the law, we will finally really succeed in the business.