Communicating: Using your voice

Aim: To improve your impact by using the full potential of your voice

This results in:

• Understanding how voice, words and body language act in combination
• Clarity about how you can use your voice to create the impact you want
• Benefiting from exercises to develop your voice
• Varying your voice to get people’s full attention
• Convincing others by unleashing the power of your voice

How?

• Physiological background information
• Mini lectures
• Lots of practical exercises for frequent future use
• Resource guide with exercises
• Individual feedback on current use of own voice
• Action plan on how to keep improving your voice

The course focuses on:

• The voice: It’s not what you say, but how you say it
• How your voice carries emotions
• The impact of breathing on your voice
• Using a positive inner dialogue
• Articulation: How to help others understand you better
• Using intonation and pausing to create dramatic effects
• Adjusting the rhythm of your voice to get the outcome you want
• Discovering your own voice and experimenting with its breadth
• Practising, practising, practising
• Making your words, body language and voice congruent
• Keeping your voice in challenging circumstances
• Learning by doing: during and after the workshop

Length of course: 2 days