Have a look at our articles below which contain great tips and advice to help you improve your skills in this area.
You probably use your voice for a substantial part of your working day but you may take it for granted that it will do what you want it to do. You may need to speak with greater authority over the telephone, get your ideas across well in a meeting, persuade your colleagues along a certain line or command and captivate an audience.
For any of these and other situations, your voice plays a key role in making a powerful impact on your listeners. Read more »
What can our own politicians learn from the soaring public speaking skills of the new President of the United States of America? Marina Hyde (A bad week for the cause of banality and witless snidery, Guardian, Saturday 8 November) talks of politicians both past and present listening to Obama’s victory speech in Chicago in the early hours of Wednesday morning experiencing a ‘sobering, gut – sinking sense of their own inadequacy.’ How right she is. Read more »
What’s happened to David Miliband’s voice? At the 2008 Labour conference he sounded like Rory Bremner doing Tony Blair. Or, to put it technically, the heir to Blair has abandoned the “dark L”. That’s not some sinister Labour faction plotting against Gordon Brown but the sound we make when pronouncing words with an “L” towards the end, such as “people”. Read more »
Your voice is one of your main vehicles for clear communication. You probably spend a large amount of your working life using your voice to make an impact – whether it is speaking in meetings, on the telephone or giving presentations. But have you ever considered having some voice training to help you to really use your voice to its full potential? Read more »